Lack of communication on lenses

Dlit

New member
Why is Nikon so unresponsive and non communicative around announced products? Seems disrespectful to loyalists.
 

BackdoorArts

Senior Member
You're gonna have to be more specific. That said, from every indication NPS is a shambles, something my brother hears from a bunch of pros when they switch to Canon (he's a pro rep). That said, I love my Nikons. My brother tried prying me away but no thanks.
 

Dlit

New member
The comment refers to their global lack of communication, hard to get answers or info on anything...love my Nikon gear and system but my concerns about the company and systems as a whole are growing daily.
 

Dlit

New member
Start with the delivery date with the 70-200 s that people paid for back in Dec....the delays due to Covid are fine, how bout an email for my 2500 that says hey we had some issues then Covid hit we expect to start shipping on xyz date.....
 

Fred Kingston

Senior Member
Which dealer did you prepay thru? If you paid directly to Nikon, I assume you used a credit card? Contest the charges, and get your money back for non-delivery.

it would have helped if you’d have stated what the issue was in your first post.
 

Dlit

New member
My issue is a lack of communication as I clearly stated....I have no interest in getting my money back...I want the lens and a reasonable amount of communication. Have you noticed people are moving away from the brand...communication is and area easily improved on. Why take an apologist view?
 

BackdoorArts

Senior Member
Start with the delivery date with the 70-200 s that people paid for back in Dec....the delays due to Covid are fine, how bout an email for my 2500 that says hey we had some issues then Covid hit we expect to start shipping on xyz date.....

Probably because if they give you a date and it passes it creates more issues than it solves. The supply chain is screwed and they could be waiting for 1 part or 20. No one knows when that's gonna be solved.
 

Danno

Senior Member
Dealers on preorder are part of the problem too. I preorder the Z 85 1.8 S lens. After the lens started shipping I waited about a month and called the dealer to get a heads up, and they would not commit to anything.
I started calling around and in less than a week my local dealer had one and I canceled my preorder.

I had this illusion that the big stores like Adorama and B&H would be the place to order from. I learned my lesson. I NOW order new stuff from my local photo store.
 

spb_stan

Senior Member
They could lie like the others and pick a date but they really did not have control of many factors. Why buy a lens before it is shipping of reviewed? Those who switch brands because someone does not give them specific information that is not knowable seem rather silly, and not very serious about their craft. I have yet to see a brand hopper among the award winners or in the major photo fine art galleries. Personally, I have been very pleased with dealing with Nikon and switched from decades with Canon film and switching to Nikon when Digital was really different between the brands and feel I would be giving up a lot by switching brands. I really do not see any advantage in any of them, Sony is not in the same class of build quality, not even built as well as a D3400, Canon would require a $40,000 investmentt in RF lenses, S1R Panasonic is a very well made unit but weighs more than a D850 with grip, a real brick. None of them have the handling and ergonomics of the D850 or Z6/7

international shipping has so many variables in transit and shipping, right now. The shut downs started in Janurary.. Heck I have not even been out of the house but twice in 3.5 months with quite a few session cancellations and weddings, and an international event I was contracted to shoot . I have a good friend who is well positions in customs and said the entire world is bottlenecked do to custom clearance being more complicate now, and unless essential supplies, many shipments are sitting in customs warehouses while higher priority items are tested for contamination. In my main business, Ihad to refund $625,000 in prepaid tours and had already laid out $74,000 in pre-payments for non-refundable tickets to museums and palaces. Now the very next income will be over a year from now so I have a hard ttime generating much anger over a delayed lens. Even if the shipment was yesterday there is no telling when a dealer would get it because most services in many countries are still closed. Get your money back and go out and shoot with your other lenses until you can get a 70-200 S in your hands. Some times it is just better not to sweat the small stuff.

I was planning on getting one but when the specs for size and weight were firmed up, my enthusiasm has fallen. It might be a stellar lens bit it is bigger and heavier than a FL version thatis excellent. What I use it for, portraits and events no one could tell the difference in prints from that or a Tamron G2 at $1500 lower price and more compact. The difference in optics only might be better in corners over a F mount and for studio, portraits and events the resolving power of the corners is not a selling point. Stopped down, where corners mean something, there is not much difference between any of the later 70-200 2.8. The f/4 version is lower cost, very good and not a challenge to the weight limits for overhead bins on flights.

The main reason I switched to the Z system was the inceasingly more limits on carryon weight regional airlines that I could not take my D850 and a few lenses, without buying an additional seat. My last month-long visit to Turkey required leaving my FX cameras home and taking a D7000 amd kit zoom. But still got some good shots with creative use of a SB900
Here is one done in cave of my GF who want to dress the part, showing even a D7000 crop camera with 18-105 kit lens can get the job done in a pinch. A thousand photos over a month in snow and ice covered mountains to new years eve street party, -15c to +4C, all shorts of clighting conditions and not one out of focus shot or badly exposed. The only ones deleted were due to my framing and composition. so even the Dx kit lens was better than I am.
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