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Done :-)
 
Ken Seals said:
Done :-)
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As Roland Vink update the site only every 7 to 10 days - roughly how far above 6100 (the last USA serial number noted) is your serial number?
 
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Mine does not seem to fit in with the pattern, I am in UK, but the number is 202112xx.

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RobzLondon said:
Mine does not seem to fit in with the pattern, I am in UK, but the number is 202112xx.

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Which, the beginning 2, indicates the camera was originally designated for the Japan market. If I am reading the data site correctly.
 
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TomS53 said:
RobzLondon said:
Mine does not seem to fit in with the pattern, I am in UK, but the number is 202112xx.

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Which, the beginning 2, indicates the camera was originally designated for the Japan market. If I am reading the data site correctly.
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RobzLondon, I am afraid that you are reading the wrong serial number. If you mount a native Nikon Z lens on a Z body, the EXIF data contains both the serial number for the camera and the serial number for the lens.

Nikon Z body serial number have 7 digits, and the first or first two, i.e. left most, digits indicate the targeted market country or continent. Z lenses have 8-digit serial numbers starting with 2, and there is only one number sequence for each lens model world wide. That 202112xx seems to be a lens serial number.

Please check your Z9 serial number behind the LCD on the back.

The lens whose serial number has gone to 210K is probably a 24-70mm/f4 S. That was likely the lens you had on your Z9.
 
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Thanks for pointing out what I missed. Though the serial # did look a bit odd but I did not do a digit count. Though even if I had counted, I am not sure that I would have realized what it meant. Hopefully, I will remember this bit of info for a while! :-) Stay Safe!
 
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Dibyendu Majumdar said:
Please send your serial number to http://www.photosynthesis.co.nz/nikon/camera.html

If it happens to exceed the max serial number listed.

This provides a good way to estimate how many Z9s have been made so far. From the numbers already recorded it seems to have exceeded 11000 units.
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Since the US is roughly 30% of Nikon's market, and the European market is about the same size, I would say Nikon has already shipped well over 20K Z9 world wide, but at least from my point of view, on a mainly English web site such as this one, we seem to lack data points from Asia, especially from China and Japan.

Incidentally there are a couple of typos on Roland's web site on the Z9, probably cut and paste errors. I have already informed him.

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Roland Zink, a Kiwi, has a massive database of Nikon cameras and lenses, going back to the early F days. Historical reference.
 
Ken Seals said:
Roland Zink, a Kiwi, has a massive database of Nikon cameras and lenses, going back to the early F days. Historical reference.
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Make it Roland Vink. He is a great guy in Auckland, New Zealand.

At least I am interested in roughly how many Z9 Nikon is shipping a month. That can give us an idea how soon the various waiting lists will clear. But I think supply is already gradually catching up.
 
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Sorry for the typo :-) I'm typing with a large bandage on my left hand following surgery for contracture.
 
shuncheung said:
Since the US is roughly 30% of Nikon's market, and the European market is about the same size, I would say Nikon has already shipped well over 20K Z9 world wide, but at least from my point of view, on a mainly English web site such as this one, we seem to lack data points from Asia, especially from China and Japan.
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20,000 shipped by the end of February seems about right using the information available.

We do not know when Nikon started making production models and a few early bodies would have been pre-production versions.

Estimating total numbers at the end of March and then the end of April compared to the around 20,000 at the end of February should indicate how many Nikon are making a month.

Nikon are likely to be taking every step they can to increase production.

Using 6,000 Z9 each for USA and for UK to the end of February compares very well with 10,400 D5 in 5 years for USA and 15,000 for UK http://www.photosynthesis.co.nz/nikon/camera.html#Pro

Nikon seem to be selling well over 5 times more Z9 than they did D5 - indicating a significantly increasing presence in the pro grade camera body market.

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Over 6006400 serial number in the UK.

The Nikon computer information showed "Delivery Creation" on 11 Feb at Nikon Amerstdam, Packing list 18 Feb and arrived in UK today 28th Feb.

The back page of the "instruction book" has a sticker showing date of manufacture - though I do not fully understand the code.



Sorry about the colour balance.
Sorry about the colour balance.

Estimating how many Z9 Nikon has made based on USA and Europe/UK serial numbers might be understated.

CIPA figures for last year indicate Japan/Far East adopted "full throttle" to Nikon ML ahead of USA and Europe.

I have still to contact Roland Vink.







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Leonard Shepherd
In lots of ways good photography is much more about how equipment is used rather than anything else.
 
Leonard Shepherd said:
Over 6006400 serial number in the UK.

The Nikon computer information showed "Delivery Creation" on 11 Feb at Nikon Amerstdam, Packing list 18 Feb and arrived in UK today 28th Feb.

The back page of the "instruction book" has a sticker showing date of manufacture - though I do not fully understand the code.
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In a lot of Asian languages, it is year, month, day. That looks like 2022 February 1st, same as the manufacture date on the Nikon batteries:

Date on lower left side: 2018 06 21
Date on lower left side: 2018 06 21

Leonard Shepherd said:
Sorry about the colour balance.
Sorry about the colour balance.

Estimating how many Z9 Nikon has made based on USA and Europe/UK serial numbers might be understated.

CIPA figures for last year indicate Japan/Far East adopted "full throttle" to Nikon ML ahead of USA and Europe.
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The Japan home market is big for Nikon, but probably not as big as the US. The market in China is very big now, probably similar to the size of the US.
Leonard Shepherd said:
I have still to contact Roland Vink.
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Not sure Roland is getting a lot of updates from China and Japan, since his site is in English just as these forums.
 
Leonard Shepherd said:
Over 6006400 serial number in the UK.
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So UK serial number is just part of the EU range then?

I think what is obvious is that already Z9 may have sold more than the D6, and maybe will surpass all previous generation digital pro cameras from Nikon. Great news for Z system and Nikon owners.
 
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I thought I saw a Z9 package deal at my local Costco. I think they had a huge pile of them. I think they threw in a couple memory cards and a coupon to get the new 400 mm f2.8.
 
Dibyendu Majumdar said:
Leonard Shepherd said:
Over 6006400 serial number in the UK.
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So UK serial number is just part of the EU range then?
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Apparently for Nikon DSLRs, UK has their own serial number sequence, but for mirrorless Z bodies, they are lumped together with continental Europe.
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I think what is obvious is that already Z9 may have sold more than the D6, and maybe will surpass all previous generation digital pro cameras from Nikon. Great news for Z system and Nikon owners.
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I am sure Nikon never sold a whole lot of D6. For one thing it is not that much better than the D5, as the development for DSLRs had already hit a plateau. Nikon also announced the D6 at the end of February 2020, intended for the Japan Olympics later on that year, but Covid-19 became a pandemic merely a couple of weeks after that announcement. Nikon wasn't able to ship any D6 until June/July 2020. By then the Olympics had already been postponed and a lot of pro sports were shut down.

Six months later, in January 2021, Sony announced the A1 with 50MP and 8K video. It forced Nikon's hand to pre-announce the Z9 on March 10, 2021:

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www.dpreview.com

At the time the D6 had been around for a mere 8 months or so, but Nikon openly said the new camera was 'developed with the goal of surpassing the D6.'"
 
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