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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AC016" data-source="post: 139449" data-attributes="member: 9619">Just to continue on with what you mentioned about the warranty on lenses, this from the Nikon site:"The Nikon USA warranty on film cameras, lenses, and speedlights will be honored by Nikon-authorized service centers outside the United States as long as you have the yellow copy of the Nikon USA warranty and your sales receipt from a dealer in the USA.  The key to the validity of the warranty is a sales receipt from the country in which you purchased the equipment.  If you purchase equipment in another country where the Nikon Worldwide Warranty applies, copies of the sales receipt and this warranty are necessary to obtain warranty service in the USA.  Buying the equipment with a Nikon Worldwide Warranty in the United States is not recommended because that warranty is not valid in the USA without a sales receipt from an overseas dealer, and it is not valid outside the USA with a sales receipt from a dealer in the USA.Please note that the Nikon USA warranty we supply with our sport optics products (binoculars, fieldscopes, spotting scopes, etc.) is valid only in the USA.  The same is true of the Nikon Digital Imaging Limited Warranty we supply with digital cameras and film scanners."Therefore, for the folks in the US, DO NOT buy any lenses that come with a worldwide warranty, it will not be honored in the USA without an official sales receipt from an overseas dealer and it will not be honored outside of the US with a sales receipt from a US dealer.  Stick with the regular warranty.  If you are going to travel, perhaps remember to bring along your regular warranty card and sales receipt, for this will be honored outside of the USA.</blockquote>

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