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What happened to 35mm f/1.8 availability?

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I'm planning a trip to Rome/Florence/Venice in about 3 weeks and wanted to pick up a 35mm f/1.8 lens for low light/museum photography but I can't find this lens available anywhere? Last fall, you could find this lens discounted everywhere.

Does anyone know where to find one of these lenses (in the US)? I need to get one within the next 2 weeks.

Thanks!
 
If you can't find the nikkor and you could manage using 2.8 instead of 1.8, check out Tokinas 35mm. All around a better lens plus it has macro. You'll pay a little bit more for the Tokina though(well worth it).

As far as availability, check Best Buy for the 35 1.8 DX. I've read people having luck there.

Good luck
 
cman548 said:
http://www.centralcamera.com/Lenses/Autofocus/Digital-Only-/Nikon/Nikon-AF-S-DX-NIKKOR-35mm-f-1-8G-Lens

On a whim I tried them. Classic old store in the middle of Chicago loop, floor to ceiling type place. I ordered mine from there last night, still at $199! But alas this morning it says out of stock, so perhaps mine was the last.

Tempe camera closer to home has one on their site but at $225.
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well, Central was out of stock as well, also some other place that did not have their availiability accurately reflected on their website.

The Tokina 35mm: that's a screw drive right? So it woulnd't auto-focus on a D3100?
 
edwardaneal said:
nikons store seems to have it

https://shop.nikonusa.com/store?Action=DisplayPage&Env=BASE&Locale=en_US&SiteID=nikonusa&id=ThreePgCheckoutShoppingCartPage
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WOW on a whim last night I decided to try the actual Nikon store and I ordered one. Thought about paying an extra $20 for 2 day air (trying to get if for sunday) but I'll take my chances with $10 ground shipping. They still had stock this morning, I was gonna let y'all know, but looks like they're already gone.
 
There are tons of them on Ebay. I bought mine on ebay for $200 last fall. The price seems to have gone up but there a a bunch of auctions. If you really need one, they are there.
 
Some 13 hrs ago, Amazon.com showed me $325 for the same from some other reseller. Now it is showing me $302.50 from Portable Guy.

I would say http://www.adorama.com backorder price is much better to trust than eBay.
tloon said:
Ebay prices are crazy I watched one go for 300.00 the other night used.
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/tloon1/ d300,,nikon 1.4 tele,50 1.8,,sb600, sb800,tamron 28-75mm f2.8,70-300vr, 300mm AFS f4,TOKINA 12-24 F4.TAMRON 90MM 2.8 MACRO.
http://www.tloon1.smugmug.com/
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Evidently a popular lens. Seems Nikon did not produce enough in the last run. I would imagine that back orders will cause a larger run in the next batch.
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