Nikon D200 Price increase!

Back around the first of the year I was looking at the Nikon D200 and
decided to wait a while to see if the price would go down. Now it seems
it has gone up $200, what is up with that? It also seems no one has the
body only in stock, just packages with a lens or lens and flash card.
Any one have any idea if or when the camera body only will be available
again and why can't they just sell the body from the package groups?


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Hmm ... $1499 is about as cheap as I have ever seen it with reputable
retailers. http://tinyurl.com/2fotqs

Granted, it seems to be back ordered at the moment. I got mine for much less
than that at Best Buy because they wouldn't honor my 10% coupon and they were
about to watch me walk out the door. It wasn't until I left that I realized
they gave me 10% off of the sales price at the time (which was $1599). $1439
was a great price last year.

 

Just a guess, but you might find that prices start falling within about
24 hours from now, and that many used ones start appearing for sale on EBay.

 

From your address you appear to be in the US. Check what has happened
to the exchange rate. The old greenback she ain't what she used to be.
Allen

 

Sounds like they may be getting ready to announce a new model, and existing
stocks of D200s are getting low. Just a guess, but I've seen that happen
before. Prices of a given model naturally decline over time, but rise at the
very end as availability becomes limited while demand continues..

Neil

 

I seem to recall seeing it for $1399 awhile back at JandR and another
reputable dealer. I haven't seen it that cheap since then.

 

New Nikon D3 and D300 previewed here:

http://www.dpreview.com/

They look like winners!

David

 

And the D300 weighs less than my D200. I've already added myself to the
queue.

Don <www.donwiss.com> (e-mail link at home page bottom).

 

Don,

As a matter of interest, if weight is important to you, why didn't you go
for the D40/D40x? and the kit lens?

David

 

The one thing I REALLY want in a camera now that the D200 doesn't have
is either USB or Bluetooth connections to GPS. I've had an amazingly fun
time with the 10-pin GPS I rigged up for the D200, but I would really
like to be able to use a modern USB unit, or even a tiny Bluetooth model
to get rid of some of the dangling wires I have now.

 

Wowsers! I would say so!

Neil

 

Wait, Ken Rockwell insisted that Nikon would never come out with a full
frame camera! Finally some competition for the 5D! I expect than Nikon
will move quickly to come out with a competitor to the Canon EOS-1Ds
Mark III.

I was out in the Big Sur area for two days, and I was surprised to see a
relatively large number of higher end D-SLRs being used by
non-professionals. Clearly people are willing to spend the big bucks for
the higher end products. I saw mostly Canon because of the BWLs that
nature photographers tend to favor, but there were some D200's as well.

 

I think I will be waiting for the D300 too.

The number I saw on the weight says the D300 is only 5 grams lighter
than the D200. If you can detect that, I am amazed. A few specs of
dust will almost add up to that (ok so that's a slight exaggeration

Chris W

 

I think Nikon will hold off for a while. Right now the 1Ds Mk III is as
useful as a big gaudy 77 Cadillac Eldorado pimp mobile with 4" white walls
since it is a studio camera without lenses that will resolve on it. Canon
is going to have to give this beast a new lens lineup of 85mm and wider if
they want pros to take this camera seriously. Of course they can always
throw a few a Nikkors on it.






Rita

 

Why should I settle for a lesser camera?

Don <www.donwiss.com> (e-mail link at home page bottom).

 

It may be a while. This is what I received back:

I'll get you on the list as soon as we get the product number from Nikon.
Don't hold your breathe, though.
In Nikon terminology, November can actually mean February.

At dpreview
The D300 is Weight (no batt) 825 g (1.82 lb)
The D200 is Weight (inc. batteries) 920 g (32.5 oz)

Okay. My mistake. It was early this morning and I missed that one had no
battery and the other was with a battery.

Don <www.donwiss.com/pictures/> (e-mail link at page bottoms).

 

I guess I'm completely missing the point here. What do you use GPS for with
a camera?

Neil

 

Finding your way home then finding your way back again to
pick up lens caps, lcd protectors, filters, and other
paraphernalia that you lost along the way.
You can trace where you dropped the lens cap - by the GPS
coordinates on the first image you took that wasn't 100% black.

 

<guffaw!>

OK, now I understand.

Neil

 

You must be using a rangefinder camera. I remember being surprised at how
few black frames I got with my Mamiya 7.

David J. Littleboy
Tokyo, Japan