Nikon D700 DSLR Priced For Australia
You know the Nikon D700 that was announced last week? The mid-range DSLR that has photographers around the world salivating at the prospect of a full-frame sensor in a compact, lightweight body? Well, it’s been priced for Australia – and we’ve been given the short end of the stick.
The camera, which sells for US$2,999 in the States, will set you back $3,999 in Australia. And unless I’m mistaken (and I don’t think that I am), that’s the price for the body-only kit. That’s a mark up of about $880 at the current exchange rate. Consider: with that $880, you could buy the new SB-900 speedlite (worth $749) that Nikon is launching alongside the D700. Kind of makes grey importing all that more attractive, doesn’t it?
Both the D700 and the SB-900 are landing July 25. Now all we need is for Canon to come to the party with the 5D Mark II, and we’ll be in mid-range DSLR heaven.
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Goddamn you, Nikon, for your ridiculous AU pricing conversion.
US$2999 = AU$3123, not $3999, fools!
Whoever decided on this price is either mathematically incompetent, or a jerk, or a healthy combination of both.
Goddamn your hides!
so true, this mathematical incompetence is across the range though, including software downloads, but that’s another criminal-issue to discuss another day!
I’ve seen the D700 for $3600 @ digital camera warehouse, still too pricey tho :( might have to wait till the end of the year :)
Got the same annoying problem here in the UK. $2999 US Dollars is £1506 UK Sterling and not £1999 which the D700 is going to sell for here.That £493 actually equates to a whopping AU$1023 difference. Think you are hard done to!
Cmon Giz, how about putting the hard word on these guys to justify the price gouging. At least co-ordinate a submission by readers to the ACCC. They can’t be allowed to set exorbitant prices and then complain about about parallel imports. All this does is screw the local retailers and consumers.
I should add the irony of the comment anti-spam words I had to type in, “revenue first”! Says it all really.
Price gouging all over. That is why I now buy all my stuff from the US sites and refuse to support local dealers. Until the manufacturers get real, I will deal elsewhere.
as a yank living here in Oz, I can tell ya’ll it ain’t just on the D700 that we get yanked around pricewise.. It is SOP (Standard Operating Procedure)here to screw the consumer and all companies do it and here in WA it is extremely bad.