Nikon D200s

slumped

Hi

Anyone used one of these yet? Where is the best place to buy them?

Am I right in saying that if purchased from the US, they are duty free because its a Digital Camera?

Have a D70 and would like to upgrade.

S

ShayHT

I've a D70 too and am very very very tempted with the D200!

Whats this no customs you talk of?:D

rymus

the perfect excuse for a long weekend in New York.

ShayHT

haha, less than 400 return!

slumped

I am almost 100% sure that if you buy a Digital Camera from the US and ship it over via FedEx etc. that they are exempt.

Lenses are not exempt over a certain value.

Any customs experts around? How would a body and lens package be evaluated by Customs?

S

heffsarmy

digital cameras are not exempt from import duties and taxes...I just forked out over 500euro customs charges for my new canon 1d mii

ShayHT

Ouch. Did you end up saving anything in the end?

heffsarmy wrote:

digital cameras are not exempt from import duties and taxes...I just forked out over 500euro customs charges for my new canon 1d mii

heffsarmy

It worked out at around 2500euro in total, alot cheaper than buying in ireland, its secondhand with only over 2000 shutter actuations, which is nothing on a camera like this, as they are good upto 200,000 shutter actuations. The camera is in mint condition.

blackbird98

I too am going to upgrade to a d200. Im goin to the Focus in Imaging show in the NEC in Birmingham at the end of the month. Can buy the body only at the show for approx €1750

eas

hey all

curious why everyone is so keen to upgrade the the D200? Sure the extra resolution would be nice, 5 shots per second would be cool, the semi-pro (?) body means I could shoot in the desert or rainforest..:)

Don't get me wrong, I'd love to have the D200, but the D70 does everything I need it too and that I will upgrade when it becomes outdated or just dies.

Not blamming anyones desire to upgrade, just wondering what people see as the real advantages of the D200?

thanks

Oriel

I was thinking the same thing myself.

Progen

heffsarmy wrote:

It worked out at around 2500euro in total, alot cheaper than buying in ireland, its secondhand with only over 2000 shutter actuations, which is nothing on a camera like this, as they are good upto 200,000 shutter actuations. The camera is in mint condition.

How do ye find out how many shutter actuations an SLR camara has had? is there anyway of finding out?

TempestSabre

Can you let me know when you are selling your D70's

heffsarmy

Progen, I bought the software from this site, http://www.soens.de/ 10euro, its only works with the canon 1d series...if you check out the canon forums there are ways of telling the shutter counts on the 10d, 20d etc. This software is is accurate though, have'nt tried the other methods.

Steffano2002

I am also immensely interested in the D70 so if you are selling yours when upgrading...

ShayHT

I'll always keep my D70 as a backup, too good to sell no matter what ya upgrade to, unless its 2 DX2's

Beano

heffsarmy wrote:

Progen, I bought the software from this site, http://www.soens.de/ 10euro, its only works with the canon 1d series...if you check out the canon forums there are ways of telling the shutter counts on the 10d, 20d etc. This software is is accurate though, have'nt tried the other methods.

How do you get to the forums? I cant see a link to forums on the front page.

eas

Progen wrote:

How do ye find out how many shutter actuations an SLR camara has had? is there anyway of finding out?

the d70 tells you by it's default naming convention - ie, I take a picture, the D70 default is to name it DSC12265.nef - that's the 12,265th photo taken by the camera. AFAIK this can not be reset for obvious reasons.

CrowdedHouse

Progen wrote:

How do ye find out how many shutter actuations an SLR camara has had? is there anyway of finding out?

Opanda Exif gives the total for Nikons(and shows the ISO value which seems to be hidden from Windows)

http://www.opanda.com/en/iexif/

halenger

eas wrote:

the d70 tells you by it's default naming convention - ie, I take a picture, the D70 default is to name it DSC12265.nef - that's the 12,265th photo taken by the camera. AFAIK this can not be reset for obvious reasons.

Well you can switch it off. At least on the D50 it's an option. I'm fairly sure it was off by default too. I switched it on. You've about 12k more than me taken on your camera - niice.

eas

I'm not 100% sure it can be turned off in the D70. I know you don't have to use the default counter type naming conventoin, but it still keeps track of number of actuations, so when you turn it back on, it will give you the correct number........i think

halenger

Aah... That's cool. I do remember reading that something stored the actuations even if the numbering was off (but it was deep in exif or needed some special software).