Update (12.21.08): the price is now up to USD 7,300 with 36 bids. I did not expect it to go that high. Another day of bidding left.
Cameta Camera is currently selling a D3x on eBay. The starting bid was 99 cents. The current price is USD 5,000.
I guess they are testing the water to see how much are buyers wiling to pay. If it is true that the dealer’s cost for D3x is USD 6,500 we should see a USD 7,000 price in two months.
The news of the day: Nikon D3x is out. So far, no black dots or other nasty surprises. I could not find any interesting reviews or test shots yet (besides another Alpha 900 and DX3 raw file noise comparison). There was a small D3x registration problem on Nikon’s website and that’s about it.
A reader pointed out something interesting: the included scan is from a D3 product brochure, printed in December 2007. On Page 26 there are the different design samples shown – the image is also available online:
The crop shows obviously the D3 but the label clearly has an ‘x’ after the D3. As you can see this is not the D2x (click on image for better view). Nikon gave us a clear sign of the upcoming D3x last year, but we could not figure it out, lol. Thanks Guido!
As previously reproted, Nikon D3x should be available this Friday, December 19th 2008.
Via CrunchGear
From National Geographic:
“The Statue of Liberty, the Lincoln Memorial, and Midnight Lightning at Yosemite. Three amazing subjects seen best in rich three-dimensional spaces, stitched together to create a 360 degree view! National Geographic is partnering with Nikon to present American Wonder…three iconic locations at your fingertips with Microsoft’s Photosynth application.”
Very cool right? Now, try to view those photosynths on a Mac. Eeeeh!
According to this post at photo.net Nikon have stopped producing their legendary Nikon F6 film SLR.
Few months ago Michio Kariya (Nikon Corp. President) said that Nikon will concentrate on high-end digital SLR cameras.
Adorama currently does not have the Nikon F6 listed on their web page. B&H has it in stock for $1,999.95. Amazon: currently unavailable.
No one should be surprised from that move, but I still want to know how many of our readers purchased a Nikon film SLR in the past 12 months.
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?
