Prices
Nikon Price Increases
I’m seeing various reports of prices rising from not bad to ok and from ok to ok+a little in the US.
Nothing like the Armageddon that was being talked about. But maybe I’m different- another $100 on $1,800 isn’t going to make my choke because the $1,800 already made me choke.
On the other hand- that 200mm f/2 you had your eye on is now $4599.95 from B&H! I’m pretty sure they were ~$4,000 in December. Yikes. (But you already knew- “Only pro’s buy this lense.“)
I used to think used Hassy lenses at $1,000 were expensive.
Tags: prices
February 4th, 2009 at 01:06
New prices at B&H are all over the place. Technically, if this increase were only about currency conversion, all prices should have risen by the same percentage, but they didn’t. Or, you could argue that older lenses, for which development costs have been fully recovered, should have had lower price increases. That’s not the case either.
Here are old and new prices for Nikon lenses at B&H in which the selling price is >$1000. Note that the “old” prices are from 1/20/2009 and many had already been risen then and have risen again with the 2/1 increase.
80-400: $1300 to $1370
14: $1420 to $1680
85 1.4: $1025 (no increase) but used to be around $1000
105 2.0: $925 to $1000
135: $1070 to $1260, but OS anyway
AF-S:
14-24: $1540 to $1650
17-35: $1500 to $1550
24-70: $1470 to $1700
70-200: $1620 to $1730
200-400: $5000 to $5600
200: $4000 to $4600
300 2.8: $4449 to $4800
300 4.0: $1125 to $1350 but OS
400: $7900 to $8300
500: $7900 to $8200 but OS
600: $9500 to $9700 but OS
DX:
17-55: $1129 (no change)
Micro:
200 4.0: $1350 to $1620 but OS
Tilt-Shift:
24mm: $1900 to $2000
45mm: $1800 to $1900 but OS
85mm: $1595 to $1700
old 85PC Micro: $1350 (no change) but OS