Does Anybody Have a Z9?

If that were true then other high demand products would "fail" if they were in short supply for the first few months and that rarely proves to be the case.

 

And it happens with a lot of consumer electronics products on launch, iPhones for example go for stupid money for a couple of weeks until everything settles down. I think it actually does the opposite of hurting a company, it fuels pent up demand.

 

Now to Ford's credit on the Lightning, they are putting controls in place since they had to cease taking anymore orders for the truck for 2022.

Apple tends to make sure they have enough phone for everyone on launch,

Let's hope camera shops don't take any clues from the car dealers and start adding a "dealer markup" on top of the MSRP.

I think Nikon policy is to prohibit their authorized dealer to sell for less so perhaps the prohibit them selling for more also.

If one wants the same product as 30 million other people, and are fine with the manufacturer "updating" the product every year without any substantial changes, year after a year yet making a 50% profit, you know which product to buy.

In many fields, whether it is golf clubs, cars, cameras or computers, 3 month delivery is now fast and one may have to wait 6-9 months from order to delivery. What is curious is why Nikon is pinned on this when it affects many other products in a similar way.

Nikon marketing themselves generated a lot of hype for the Z9, and they used a lot of Nikon Ambassadors and those so called YouTube "influencers." And while a lot of people are suffering during this pandemic, some of those who are well off have plenty of money but not that much else to do. The anticipation for this new Z9 seems strong.

As far as I can tell, Nikon has been delivering quite a few Z9 already, probably around 5000 in the US alone after two weeks. Back in 2016, Nikon announced the D5 in early January (for the Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympics later that year). I think they started shipping around February/March. I waited a while before ordering from B&H on April 13, and they shipped a month later on May 12. I had a trip to Africa that year in mid June, such that I still had a full month to get used to the new camera. My D5 has the serial number 30018**. Therefore apparently after three months, there were still only around 2000 to 3000 D5 in the US. (The D5 is a bit tricky since Nikon use different serial number sequences for the Compact Flash version and the XQD version, although that card module can be changed. Apparently the majority of people bought the XQD version.)

My friend got his on Thursday. He emailed me abut the battery and firmware update. The battery took about 4 hours to fully charge. And the first attempt at the firmware update failed. He said the likely culprit was that the battery was not fully charged. He fixed things by charging the battery again, made sure the camera menu readout said it was at 100% and the camera was plugged into an external power source with the AC charger before you attempt to do the firmware update.

He is setting it up using Moose Peterson's set up recommendations. He is thrilled with pictures taken so far with his Nikon 200-400mm on the FTZ II adapter.

You can buy 2nd hand Z9 stuff in Vancouver quite easily. This is the second one in a week. There is loads of Z stuff for sale in Vancouver, I wonder why?

https://vancouver.craigslist.org/pml/pho/d/coquitlam-nikon-z9-ftz-ii/7437261588.html