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? -- Chris W KE5GIX "Protect your digital freedom and privacy, eliminate DRM, learn more at http://www.defectivebydesign.org/what_is_drm" Gift Giving Made Easy Get the gifts you want & give the gifts they want One stop wish list for any gift, from anywhere, for any occasion! http://thewishzone.com
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.
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.
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).
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
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).
