06-22-2011, 01:59 PM
[quote name='Bare' timestamp='1308750801' post='9406']
It's allways the same with thrd-party lens makers, sugested prices are 30-50% higher than retail prices. Yes I know that 16-28 has sugested price of 118.000 yens in Japan but it sells for 88.000 at most.
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Yes, but that was the base of my estimation :-)
16-28: 118.000yen
17-35: 98.000yen
Thus a 17% difference in MSRP.
Local street price:
16-28: 780EUR (that's what we know)
17-35: approx. 650EUR
It's quite surprising that the 17-35 is so "expensive". 650EUR is, of course, very fine for a full format UW zoom. But usually there's more than just a 17% price difference based on a max. aperture difference of 1 f-stop.
It's allways the same with thrd-party lens makers, sugested prices are 30-50% higher than retail prices. Yes I know that 16-28 has sugested price of 118.000 yens in Japan but it sells for 88.000 at most.
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Yes, but that was the base of my estimation :-)
16-28: 118.000yen
17-35: 98.000yen
Thus a 17% difference in MSRP.
Local street price:
16-28: 780EUR (that's what we know)
17-35: approx. 650EUR
It's quite surprising that the 17-35 is so "expensive". 650EUR is, of course, very fine for a full format UW zoom. But usually there's more than just a 17% price difference based on a max. aperture difference of 1 f-stop.