Re: Official Nikon Z 180-600mm f5.6-6.3 VR Image Thread
AlphaPhotography wrote:
Someone speculated that pricing it this low was a way to get users to jump ship to Nikon and that companies make most of their profit on selling camera bodies.
sum1sgrampa wrote:
I won't pretend to know the first thing about marketing, purely a casual observer. This 180-600 may turn out to be one of Nikon's biggest mistakes. I'm referring to the price. Consider the Sony 200-600 was released almost five years ago at around $2000. OM Systems just took a nearly 10 year old design from Sigma, changed the mount, kept the horrible push/pull zoom, and slapped another $800 onto the price bringing that lens to $2700.
Nikon brought out a completely new design, internal zoom, shaved some weight from the F mount 200-500, improved the IQ from the 200-500, all for less than $1800. I'm certainly not complaining but I think I'd still consider this lens a great bargain at even around $2400.
Gary
Could very well be.
Mar 14, 2024 at 02:32 PM
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