Nikon D700, $300 Rebate

Lindy,

 

$2520 is still the price at Amazon, assuming they still have stock. I'm hoping mine will ship and arrive as promised (next Wednesday), although, when I just checked, it still doesn't show up as being shipped.

Berger Bros still has it at $2499 and Adorama a bit higher. I would imagine that B&H will have to lower the price a bit next week.

 

If you want it to be $2300, you may need to wait a little longer. In Lindy's case, it really boils down to whether you want the D700 + 14-24 or not. I don't see the difference of $200 that huge a deal. That combo will cost you $4000 or so. If you don't have to have it, you might as well save $4000. But I managed to capture something like this with that combo:

 

http://www.photo.net/photo/7919556

I hate to ask but will all Nikon D700 be "Made in Japan" or eventually we will see "Made in Thailand".. Not that it makes a big differences (D200 was fine)?

If you wait a while at Amazon, I think you'll see it go up and down, maybe depending on what their inventory is. I saw this with the 85/1.4 about a year ago.

John, all D700 are made in Japan, athough I really don't think that makes any difference, except that perhaps they could have been cheaper with the lower labor cost in Thailand.

All D200 and All D300 are/were made in Thailand, and they have been mostly fine. The ones I have are certainly fine.

There are some glitches regardless of where a camera is made.

 

In fact, the D300 and D700 share a lot of components. "Made in whatever country" merely means where the final assembly was done. A D700 could have plenty of components made by Nikon and other companies' factories in China or Thailand, and a D300 could have parts from Japan.

This year I moved from pentax dslr to canon dslrs. For years I've used with adapters my nikon lenses and

assessories

on canon's old manual focus fd system and eos film system. Now days if I wanted to get the 12-24mm 2.8 it would

be what, $300 off issue? I could buy it and 16-9 's Nikon G lensadapter for like $180 and wait 6 months or longer to

receive it due to its popularity but I've waited once D700 got announced. Since I am in no hurry I write down prices of

dream kit items and see that so far the

$300 rebate has not, dollar for dollar, been integrated into the last D700 bestprices I wrote down. Considering I paid

$1750

in June for a brand new Canon 5D I'd rather see the D700 come in right at $2,000, which would only be $1800 above

the

cost of 16-9 's adapter to use G glass on eos mount and would then be a no brainer purchase. Nikon D700 at right

price would be a welcome addition to my bag and I'd love to see how 14-24mm 2.8 outperforms my 16-35mm II eos

lens. It should from the reviews I've seen.

 

No hurries. Getting a D700 is a want, not a need. That 12-24mm 2.8 nikon is certainly a lens I'd love to use. Having

only seen how canon instant rebates work I was surprised to see no $2269 +or- D700 available after I

read this thread.

 

I'll keep searching D700, hopefully someone will post the first sub $2300 D700 offers on photonet. If not, its all good

and I'll shop accordingly as canon's instant cash offs run thru 1-17-09 and the sellers I buy from really did drop their

prices, dollar for dollar, due to rebate.

Thats 14-24mm 2.8 Nikon lens I've wanting to buy and use ,not "12-24"

 

Lindy

"I feel honored to be in the company of the rich here who are seemingly immune to the facts on the ground most others know as the reality. 401k's are 201K's and every day the Dow keeps going down."

 

"My 401(k) is down so much that the D700 seems like a trivial expense. It's a good thing that I don't plan to retire for another 20 years."

 

As for me, If I could have back what my 401k is down, I could have bought 40 D700's. Maybe there's a lesson to be learned there somewhere.

<i>If I could have back what my 401k is down</i>

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Forgive me my ignorance, but stocks go down and up all the time, won't it be back up in a few years time?

Given That the yen has swung from 120 to the dollar when the D700 came out to 90 to the dollar now; I'd say we're due for

a price adjustment across the board to increase shopping.

whoops; let me correct that - upon further review it seems to have gone from ~110 yen to dollar to 94 now (still significant).

I wonder how this plays into the equation, I imagine it isn't helping. Low dollar equals lower profits.

A weak dollar means higher prices for imports. But I was thinking that the dollar was up against the yen.

i don't know how much of a reliable source the guy who owns the camera shop near me is but i was talking to him about the D700 and the 5d Mark II and he seems to think they will be selling the D700 for "well under $3000AUS" when the mark II comes out. i'm not sure how it can drop in over $1000 so quickly but he seemed fairly adamant on this.

Jake, if I were you, I would challenge him to sign a contract to sell you a D700 at such a discount by year end (or whatever the appropriate time is). It is easy to make those baseless and silly comments as long as there is no penalty for being wrong.

Perfect,

 

I like that!

 

3,000 aussie dollars are $1859 usa dollars.

 

Fits perfectly in my plans and betters it by $140 to $400 body only.

 

I'll be great to own duo brand full frame dslr platforms next year.

yeah it was kind of farfetched but another guy who works there was waiting for the Mark II so he could get the D700 at a lower price too....i dont know about $1000 lower but they certainly do anticipate a substantial drop.

 

i just remembered the rest of the conversation

 

"at almost twice the megapixels and features we are going to have to drop the 700 by quite a lot in competition to the new 5D"

"how much do you reckon?"

"well below $3000, which is funny because its such an amazing camera anyway"

 

in so many words.

 

i dont understand the point in making it up unless he just wanted to ruin my christmas spirit when i find it hasn't changed in price (Grinch) although i still dont expect $1000...maybe another $250 which is almost the same as this rebate.

D700 for $1895? I'll buy it. :-) Might be worth waiting for. But for those who say the D700 has better image quality, maybe. That wasn't the case in the tests done by dpreview.com. I'm so satisfied with my D300, I don't plan to upgrade for many years.