I read this post on dpreview (sorry, I lost the link) – Nikon UK is planning to increase prices in January 2009 because of the weak pound. I read also a similar post about Leica price increase in the UK.
I month ago Nikon Canada increased their prices already – you can see the screenshot in this post: now the same lens is $1,592.97 CDN (from $1542.85 CDN a month ago).
Anyone from the UK got some solid info on this potential price increase?