It may be a little while before this lens becomes occasional in stock, i.e. another 6 months. There could be some one off situations, e.g. someone orders from multiple stores and declines to buy the other orders after picking up the first, such that an extra one may be available briefly.
with the quite reasonable price where this should have been a 10K USD Lens, it is pretty much affordable to any and everyone whom wants one... Nikon should have slapped a 10K USD cost on it quite honestly...
Yep, we shouldn't allow the "downtrodden masses" the luxury of this wonderful lens. (full sarcasm mode)
Nikon USA still doesn't have a "Buy" button on Z 800mm lens's webpage. Nikon USA does have a "Buy" on webpage showing four super telephoto lens. At least allowing to put lens in your cart. When you go to checkout, you are told Z 800mm lens is on back order.
It seems much, much too soon in the production cycle for this lens to be readily in stock - assuming it ever is at its price point.
NikonUSA is an interesting website - if you’re persistent enough - once in a while, when you press the add to cart button, the next page actually loads a price, and allows you to continue processing the order - even though the website warns you that the lens is “this item is on backorder”. I didn’t follow thru but sure am curious to see what really happens.
Thanks for the updated graph:
In about 6 to 8 weeks time the situation should be a little clearer.
Thought I would give this thread a bump. Interestingly, after a flurry of reports that people are receiving their new 800mm PF lenses, it seems kind of quiet in the last couple of weeks. Has anybody received a new 800 PF in the last week or so. (Today is 16 March, 2023.)
It does seem like Nikon delivered a fairly large number of the 800 PF in late February, early March and then it is quiet again. B&H may have gone through their earliest orders from the first 10 to 20 minutes on April 6, 2022. If you are indeed 35 minutes out, it may take a few more months. :-|
Previously, the higher serial number we had seen was 200062** from March 3, according to the post by KonradE: https://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/66909646
Congratulations. Looks like Nikon is shipping a lot of 800 PF again this month, and the wait situation has also improved.
The last serial number recorded at potosynthesis.co.nz about the 10th March was 6449.
