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I just ordered the Nikon D200 from Ritz
I jus ordered my baby D200 from Ritz. I wonder how long it will take to get to me.. I heard its REALLY back-ordered... lol. 1 month maybe? longer? how many did they make? lol Dec 15 05 10:09 pm Link I don't think we'll begin shipping them till the end of the month. Dec 15 05 10:23 pm Link Wrong. Mine is already in the mail from cameraworld which is also ritz Dec 16 05 01:07 am Link Ok cool. End of the month is the last I heard. Dec 16 05 07:23 am Link Mine was shipped on Thursday and I will get it on Monday Dec 16 05 10:17 pm Link Picked mine up today. So pretty  Dec 16 05 10:25 pm Link VirtuaMike wrote: BASTARD! Mine's still on its way from the East Coast. Dec 17 05 12:34 am Link DAMN DANG AND SHANG!! I for some reason dont think ill be as lucky.. you must have pre-ordered yours a long time ago (and hence were front list) I think more to the end of the list  lolDec 17 05 11:06 pm Link I want one...I WANT ONE!! Dec 18 05 04:10 am Link Has anyone shot with it yet? Comments? Dec 18 05 04:34 am Link Why the nikon 200 Dec 18 05 04:40 am Link Why the Nikon D200 you ask? BEcause its affordable.. the next digi cam up is like 4900-5500 depending on where u get it.. the d200. is only 1700. personally 5000 bucks isnt in my wallet.. being a student living off loans.. i dont think i can justify buying a camera with my student loan. lol Dec 18 05 12:46 pm Link my husband's comes in tomorrow, while his friends came in on Friday! My husband got his preordered from Ritz, while ritz online actually delivered them earlier. When my husband asked why ritz online got to their customers first, they said they were a different company then ritz. What?? Dec 18 05 01:15 pm Link MakeupIsArt wrote: Yeah, I've heard that too. I've lots of info on the D200 VS. The Cannon 5D Dec 18 05 01:20 pm Link You guys are making me SOOO jealous.. they are having a problem charging my CC.. im from canada but im trying to do the round-about way of avoiding tax. so im shipping the camera to my friends address in los angeles. but since im shipping it to a different address other than my cc address. i had to fax in some info. ANd ive faxed it in twice now and they have no record!! erghhh GIVE ME MA CAMERA! Dec 18 05 01:43 pm Link Tim Baker wrote: I've shot flowers with it but no models yet. Huge upgrade from the D70. Dec 18 05 08:02 pm Link A friend of mine ordered on and it is on it's way as we speak(or type) he expects to get it possibly this week(he's hoping) Dec 18 05 08:05 pm Link JBPhoto wrote: You are right.. you heard correct when they said "end of month". They got the D200s in.. but were all sent out the day they received them. They expect to receive their next shipment of Cameras on Dec 30th. HOPEFULLY i am in the 2nd batch of cameras! Dec 19 05 12:46 pm Link Just got mine last Friday. Order on Ritz.com and got it in a day (overnight shipping) WWWWOOOWWW what a camera. Dec 19 05 12:54 pm Link Holding mine right now - haven't had a chance to do any real shooting with it yet, but I goofed off with one on Friday at Adorama's rental department. Feels really good in the hand, well-built. I'll play around a bit tonight, see how it compares to my old D100 and the Canon 20D. Dec 19 05 01:22 pm Link jbassett wrote: Yay James, as I am sure you know by now, I just picked up Luis's . Dec 19 05 07:03 pm Link Be careful with the warrantees from the internet sites and the physical stores also. Ritz the physical store at the mall or whatever will not honor a warrantee from the internet site because it is not technically the same entity. If you bought it online then most of the time it will go directly to the manufacturer for repair ect. and you send it yourself, whereas the physical store i think has people who are qualified to fix it and if they cant they send it to the manufacturer (I think thats how the physical store works it). If you bought it online and have a problem be sure to call the place, you need authorization to send the unit to them for repair most times. If you do not get the authorization they will not accept the package and it will get sent back to you when they feel like it. Plus you have to make sure register the unit since most times it goes to the manufacturer and they will not work on a unit i was told if its not registered. The registering thing has to do with stolen units and who actualy owns them, they check all that before they work on it. That is also part of the authorization process to send it in to get fixed. Dec 19 05 07:21 pm Link nikon really dropped the ball on the release date of this camera. for all intents and purposes, it won't be widely available until jan or feb  happy holidays http://johnnyolsen.com Dec 19 05 08:41 pm Link johnny olsen wrote: Funny, all the guys I know of that did preorders actually got their's. Nikon said before xmas and they delivered. Dec 19 05 09:17 pm Link Sssshhh, don't tell anyone, but I got mine without a preorder - just was a little persistent, made nice with people, kept my ear to the ground. Walked out of Adorama with the last one they had this morning. All I can say is - be nice to your sales reps and they might just take care of you in return. It doesn't surprise me that Nikon wasn't able to deliver enough units at launch - I think they really weren't ready for the demand they saw on preorder, especially considering how little advertising they've been doing. Dec 19 05 10:00 pm Link All I can say is Cannon watch out.... Dec 19 05 10:12 pm Link Tony Lawrence wrote: I said that a long time ago. I walked away from Canon for Nikon YEARS ago and have never regretted it. Dec 19 05 10:26 pm Link Does anybody have problems with the D200 & Nikon 17-55 focusing on the infinity? What do you think about the WB on the D200? I got mine on Saturday last week. Moving from D70. 99% I used my D70 with the custom curve or EV +0.7. Do you think D200 need the same? Thanks Dec 19 05 11:00 pm Link johnny olsen wrote: Nikon has been releasing new models for a long time and every one back to the F2 has had an initial period of tight availability for the first couple of months. I do not need one until late spring, that's when I'll be ordering mine Dec 19 05 11:14 pm Link I'll get mine Wednesday from B&H, I can't wait. Moving up from the D70. D70 is a great camera but I like to have the controls on buttons rather than buried deep in the menus. Dec 20 05 02:28 am Link Nice... let us know how you guys like them! Thinking about picking one up as a better second body/D2X backup, once I see how well/poorly the tax man treats me this year! lol -Thomas- Dec 20 05 02:59 am Link Just posted my husbands D70 for sale under MM Market! Dec 20 05 05:32 pm Link johnny olsen wrote: um wtf ru talking about? I have mine - Dec 20th. Dec 20 05 09:04 pm Link MakeupIsArt wrote: I hope you told him first. Dec 20 05 10:48 pm Link iso200_bryan wrote: I think "widely available" was meant for the fact.. that its backordered at most stores.. Ritz is sold out and I have to wait till their second shipment to get one.. and thats IF im lucky to be that far ahead in line. Widely available..meaning Demand is LESS than supply.... and right NOW.. DEMAND is MUCH higher than supply. Dec 20 05 11:59 pm Link Demand is ALWAYS higher than supply when a camera first comes out... this is nothing new. Took me a couple of months to get my D2X, and had I waited a few more weeks I could have saved 2 or 3 hundred bucks when I bought it, but whatever. It was worth the wait. All the measurebators work themselves into a frenzy for MONTHS, even before a camera is announced, speculating on all the outrageous features "A friend of a friend who works at a camera shop who has an 'in' with the Nikon rep" told them it would have... others say how THIS one is gonna be the Canon-Killer (or Nikon-Killer, if you happen to be reading the Canon forum)... and then, when the camera inevitably gets pushed back a few weeks (Nikon IS worse at this than Canon is), then it's always "XXXon really dropped the ball this time... this is going to be the end of them"... if you don't believe me, go check the forums on DPReview. Search the Nikon forum for 'D200' and see how far back the posts go. And the world continues to spin, life continues to go on, and I keep taking lame photos, regardless of how much I spent for my caera! : D Dec 21 05 03:26 am Link Daniel Kwan wrote: Yah, yah, small details. lol Dec 21 05 07:09 pm Link OH GOSH.. Ok so I guess there are problems with the first batch of Cameras... dpreview. ...apparently some lenses arent working with the camera... and alot of them have been sent back. Ritz told me the second batch would be ready by Dec 30.. than they said 1-2 weeks.. and than i checked after the 2 weeks.. they said another 2-4 weeks .. so im lookin at getting the camera more like MID Feb early March it seems.. fawk fawk and fawk! Jan 14 06 04:06 pm Link Matthew Lyn Photography wrote: What a bunch of BS. The only lens I am aware of that has an issue is a Sigma I think it was. It has to do with the Sigma firmware - which they are issuing a patch for. Jan 15 06 02:06 pm Link iso200_bryan wrote: There's a setting on the D200 for compressed NEF. Is this MORE compression than what is already being done? Considering an uncompressed NEF should be well over 30mb. But let's pretend it is only 30mb. I should only get 17 photos. But my counter shows 30. Which was VERY accurate as I only got 30 shots on a quick test I did in my room. However, when I enable NEF compression, I got 63 shots but the counter read 30 when it was freshly formatted. In JPEG, it says 56 but I got 129 with is set to JPEG Optimaly Quality. Jan 15 06 02:29 pm Link |
