I would probably say a typo and move on, but the "Nieuw" label on those two listings makes me nervous. There is a current Nikon lens model AF-S NIKKOR 300mm f/4D IF-ED (currently back ordered @ B&H) that was released back in 2000. Note also that the two listing below are not for a D-type lens (the existing lens is a D type). I do not have a good explanation for the different prices:
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I would call it a fake, but that shop, among others, is rather good in The Netherlands. So it might be a way too early online submission or just a joke.
That shop had a AF-S 10.5mm fish too
Untill I emailed them the error on that page :+
They mean this Ai-S lens – production stopped in 1999.
http://photosynthesis.co.nz/nikon/ais300if.jpg
Sorry, I’m lost.
The 300 f/2.8 costs between 3,6 and 6K, but the F/4 shows up here @ 1.1-1.5K
http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=Nikon+300+mm+lens&hl=en&cid=13046892761037606239&sa=title#ps-sellers
The dutchies are still being a little cheaper.
Please help me cope… XD
I’m talking about an old manual focus lens…
I have that lens and love it! Great light compact 300mm
There’s absolutely no point in a new 300mm f/4.5 IF ED when the 300mm f/4 IF ED exists. No one would buy it.
No, but a 300 f/4 VR would be nice.
NOBODY??. Well, that excludes me. I’m craving for some hiQ long glass and if it were even close to current prime glass specs, I would swoop it up in a jiffy at 20% retail…
The expensive one mentions IF and ED (not that it makes sense to release two lenses like that).
In the lens listings (http://www.kamera-express.nl/index.php?page=subsubtypes&subsubtype=480) it reads “Very well suited for Full Frame digital”. There is also an e-mail subscription button to be notified when in stock.
The high number entries (27383 & 27384) are for 2nd items. Try numbers around and you’ll see.
http://www.kamera-express.nl/index.php?page=product&product=27381
http://www.kamera-express.nl/index.php?page=product&product=27382
http://www.kamera-express.nl/index.php?page=product&product=27383
http://www.kamera-express.nl/index.php?page=product&product=27384
http://www.kamera-express.nl/index.php?page=product&product=27385
typo. if they make a new one it will surely be f4.
I really doubt we’ll ever see a 300mm f/4 VR lens. It would cannibalize the 300mm f/2.8 sales.
Same reason why an 80-400 AF-S VR is unlikely.
Canon makes a 70-200 f4 IS as well as an f2.8… you don’t see the f4 cannibalizing sales. They’re two different markets. People who need the f2.8 buy the f2.8.
Yes, exactly!
How does a 80-400 AF-S VR cannibalize the sales of the 300/2.8 or the 300/4? The same way a 18-200 VR cannibalizes the sales of the 85/1.4 and 85/1.8?
Other than that, the 300/2.8 VR cannibalized the sales of the 300/2.8, too. The 35/1.8 AF-S cannibalized some of the sales of the 35/2 AF-D. The 55-200 VR probably reduced somewhat the sales of the 70-300 VR. So what, Nikon probably does not care, as long as they sell their stuff. And still, the 300/4 and the 300/2.8 are just different markets.
How does the f/4 cannibalize the sales of the f/2.8? Most amateurs (myself included, even though I do make some money from photography) aren’t willing to spend $5000 on a lens… but will spend $1500 if they think that it is a good product.
As long as nikon makes money, their happy. Saying that the 300mm f/4 canabalizes sales of the f/2.8 VR is like saying that the Canon 400mm f/5.6 ($1200) kills the sales of it’s four-times more expensive f/2.8 counterpart.
So, no cannibals involved. You just bought yourself a lens, while if the f/4 didn’t exist, you wouldn’t have.
RIGHT. An AF-S 80-400 VR is so unlikely, that it already exists. Admittedly, it’s not very good, but it DOES exist…
RIGHT. An AF-S 80-400 VR is so unlikely, that it already exists. Admittedly, it’s not very good, but it DOES exist…
the current one is af only, not af-s
This is probably just the AI-s 300/4.5 lens, which has been around for decades.
It says “new” meaning “as new in box”.
well if you look at the number admin, or as they would say, the artikelnummer( which i would guess means stock number in some way), they are off by one number… i wonder if one will have VR.. the other not?
A nikon teleprime, a new nikon teleprime for a price less than the 80-400? I call this myth busted!
good point… 4.5 seems stupid to me as well
While I don’t see the need for a 300 F4.5, I would love to see a 400 F4.5 AFS VRII Nano. The F4.5 still allows for either a 1.4 or a 1.7 TC to be used in good light, and keeps the size smaller/lighter than a 400 F4 would require.
yes, some N 400mm/f4 (f4.5) would be nice, If the price would be just like Canon 400/f4.5. Nikon has a lens/price gap in this.
oh yeah, 400/4.5 ultimate birdy lens
Well, I asked them to mail me when it’s in stock
It’s the shop I usually buy my gear so I see them quite often. Will ask them about this….
this are old-type lenses, found somewhere in stock – “new” simply means “not secondhand”
The “NIEUW” qualification has *nothing* to do with it being a NEW model. It refers to it being unused thus NOT second hand.
They phrase it like this because the price is comparably low, and might lead prospects to believe it’s second hand.
Some good canards running here! The ads do not mention AF, Stop fantasising now! Nikon had a 300 f4.5 manual lens for decades, and these are “brand new – old stock” items. Something of nothing if ever I saw it!
From my experience with this shop, “Nieuw” just means “New to our website”, not “A newly released lens”.
WoW!!! This may a new AF-S 300 f/4.5G VR 67mm filter thread with Nano coat.
Seriously, you ought to take this down. It may be the stupidest “new lens” speculation ever posted. It could only be surpassed by a breathless account of the new “AIS” system to be implemented in a revolutionary new 105/2.5.
These are two variants of AI/AI-S lenses, one IF-ED, the other not (and neither is and AF lens, and obviously neither can be a D lens). Nothing to see here, move on. These lenses are not rumored – they’re more likely to be somewhere in your granpa’s camera bag.
It is this lens.
http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/300EDIF.htm
If you won’t take you’re tips about this from several Dutch natives, form WHOM are you gonna take them?
Ditto reality: take this post down, it total BS