flyguy
Active member
Am I the only one beyond frustrated by the current state of business with Nikon and its products? B&H and Adorama have next to nothing when it comes to the most popular Nikon lenses especially. Yes, I have read about the "alleged" chip shortage....is it for real or contrived? Call me a conspiracy theorist, yet I wonder out loud about a lot of things that do not add up. I was in need of a replacement Nikon 24-70 f/2.8 FX lens, non VR model. I could not find a new one so had to settle for a pre owned one from one of the only brick and mortar camera shops around any longer. The chip shortage? I have a Nikkor 24mm manual focus legacy prime lens that has been on order through B&H for months now; this lens has no chip. When a company wants you to go in one particular direction, they can do things to force your hand and make you do things their way. Adobe did that when they made Lightroom and Photoshop a monthly subscription rather than sell you a one time license with a few upgrades. Is Nikon manipulating their market be making DSLR lenses in particular more and more difficult to acquire? Seems pretty easy to do if they so choose. Invest in Nikon mirrorless or invest in someone else's mirrorless system because the DSLR supply chain has been broken and might not ever get fully back to what it used to be? Are there companies out there using the pandemic as an excuse to manipulate the market or make potential customers buy in to only what those companies have to offer whether it is what they want or not? Lead; Follow; or get out of the way???