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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nickt" data-source="post: 543465" data-attributes="member: 4923">Are you familiar with grey market cameras? (no US warranty). The first link might be grey. Its coming from an Amazon marketplace seller who is not an authorized Nikon dealer. The seller might include his own warranty. Nikon might not service it after the warranty. If you want to buy from Amazon and want the Nikon US warranty, look for "ships and sold by Amazon". Or look to see who the seller is and check the Nikon list. The 2nd link is from Cameta. They are an authorized dealer, but I don't care for the bundle. I do like the 18-140 + 70-300. The 18-55 + 55-300 is awkward in my opinion. You can be very happy walking around all day with the 18-140 and not carrying anything else and save the big lens for when you really need it. With the 18-55, you will feel like you must bring the other lens with you. Then you will probably leave one or the other on the camera anyway to not bother changing lenses while walking around. Been there, done that. And finally, the Cameta bundle has the cheaper Tamron 70-300. No vr. Tamron has two 70-300's, the SP line is better. The less expensive Tamron in this kit does have a macro setting, so that is a plus, but I would rather have the SP for image quality. The tripod will be junk for sure. Don't know about the flash, probably. The Tamron is worth about $150, the spare battery $12, the remote $5, hdmi cable $5. I would decide if you want that particular Tamron lens, then price up the extras in the kit that you would actually want. You might find you are paying $50 more for a bunch of stuff you wont use or quickly replace.The camera + 18-140 goes for about about $800 right now. It won't vary much at all among legitimate dealers. Any price significantly below that is either grey or a red flag. Some dealers advertise a really great unbeatable price. Then you get the phone call to sell you something else.</blockquote>

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