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I don't think Nikon would sit on a warehouse full of these lenses. A 200-600 appeals to a different audience, an audience where many shifted brands and that is looking at a different price point compared to the other options Nikon released recently.
I have 200 600 mm & I have used 600 mm . As a wild life & bird shooter I don’t require any other focal length
I totally agree . I bought A1 mainly because of the availability & good review of 200 600
Interesting when viewed like this the gap from 100mm to 400mm in the prime lineup jumps right out at you.
Likewise I bought the A1/200-600 in lieu of anything similar in the Nikon lineup. And the 500mm PF and now prospect of the 800mm PF are the only things keeping me with Nikon. I hate being stuck in the middle with two systems. But short term I don't see an alternative. Sony doesn't have the "prosumer" long primes that I'm interested in and Nikon doesn't have a gripless high performing camera nor a zoom competitive with the 200-600. So my love/hate relationship with Nikon continues. :(
The 100-400 and the 400 f/4.5 are readily available at most shops. The 800mm PF remains heavily backlogged but is shipping.
Few Z9 pro shooters would use a 200-600.
I know Steve uses A1 with 200 600 & no one would argue about him being pro
That's interesting. I hope you're reading the tea leaves accurately
yah, i think we’ll see another high end camera and the 200-600 announced “soon”
we can only hope ..
Waiting for the contract with Tamron to be signed and agreed-to on specs and production costs. I have a feeling this lens may be a re-worked Tamron 150-600. Making it a 200-600 really only takes a slight tweak in the zoom mechanism.
The rebranded Tamron lenses to this point don’t appear to be reworked in anyway. They just changed the outside casing and branding. Reworking a 150-600mm into a 200-600mm doesn’t make sense. Why not just keep it 150-600mm? Wouldn’t that technically be slightly more useful and easier to accomplish? Factor in that the 200-600mm has been on the early roadmaps before any of the Tamron stuff showed up I see it as very unlikely.
hope you're right. As for reworking - well, Nikon has had the 200-600 on the roadmap for a very long time. To give up and bring out a rebranded 150-600 would be a significant loss of face for Nikon. My only reason for saying this above the longer it takes for Nikon to put out this lens knowing how many people are waiting for it the more I think they may have had to go back to the drawing board and offering something from Tamron (or Sigma or someone else) could get them out of the hole.
I think their engineers keep reworking it. In the latest Ricci/Westminster video (think I have that right) posted in another thread, Ricci addresses a viewer question as to where the 200-600 was. He seemed to truthfully answer that he had no idea where the lens was.
What Thom says does make sense in the way he says it, but Nikon releasing a Z30 and black Zfc this year while a large part of their user base continues to hold out waiting for something midrange to be released is causing a lot of people to lose patience. Whether it leads to frustration or them jumping to another brand, neither is favorable. With the holiday season approaching, they would likely do well releasing an updated Z6 which appeals to many people and is still cheap enough that it would be bought for the holidays. If the next camera comes in spring, it really would need to be cameras and they would need to be great releases. There needs to be a smaller, performance oriented body and a great midlevel consumer body that will generate excitement. It would also be nice to see a performance DX body and a high resolution FX option. They also need to get the rest of their lens roadmap lenses released. If they can do those things in the next six months, they will jump ahead of the competition. If they drag it out, the competition might stay ahead. This of course is just my non expert opinion.
Based on what? I don't buy that.
Yes, and Nikon must recognize this, surely. OTTH the Tokyo beancounters have balanced the books of Nikon Imaging rather well since restructuring Imaging Division away from consumer cameras, so Nikon's revenue exceeds projected profits.
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