GeneV Loc: Lampasas, Texas

That has been documented very often here. My interest was only curiosity for mine, bought second hand.

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GeneV Loc: Lampasas, Texas

Sorry you were confused by my post. Also, I'm not a "camera xenophobe", or any other xenophobe for that matter.

It was just a matter of curiosity.

Drbobcameraguy Loc: Eaton Ohio

http://www.photosynthesis.co.nz/nikon/camera.html
Here is a list of the serial numbers and countries. It has not been proven wrong yet and several of us use it.

GeneV Loc: Lampasas, Texas

Clark, thanks for the information, basically that is what I understood, but was just curious. I am a very light user of my camera and over the years have never had a problem that required a repair. Think saying that will "jinx" me???

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DesRose Loc: Phoenix, Arizona

My exact thoughts. A couple of months ago, I sent info regarding new Nikon batteries I had purchased to see if U.S. vs grey vs fakes and they said the same thing. Something about the batteries seemed suspicious even though I had purchased them from B&H (for my Nikon D850). They couldn't tell by my serial numbers and pictures; and, for me to send them in. Other than shipping charge TO them, I ended up paying nothing and they shipped back to me at no charge saying they were legit and made for US batteries.

PAR4DCR Loc: A Sunny Place

Read about an incident a year or so ago whereby someone bought a used D850, it had USA serial #, etc.
Sent camera in for a cleaning a while later and found out it was a D610 disguised as a D850. Some will go great lengths to screw people.

Don

traderjohn Loc: New York City

traderjohn Loc: New York City

They offer dealers in various countries protection from countries that have lower levels of various business costs.
Remember profit is not a dirty word. It pays your salary, half your social security contributions half your medicare contributions, and any health plan if offered. Every month half of your social security check comes from profits, not you.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Wow! That could be confusing. It could be problematic if one of those cameras were stolen. It would be like arresting the wrong twin for a crime.

amfoto1 Loc: San Jose, Calif. USA

Not true.

Nikon USA service dept. WILL work on gray market cameras. They changed that policy a year or two ago.

They also will work on items purchased used. Always did. Never had a policy against it.

There is no warranty on a gray market item, so any repairs would be at the owner's expense. But that's not a concern in this case because any warranty on a D300 undoubtedly expired years ago.

There also is no Nikon warranty on used items (unless it is bought directly from them... i.e. "refurbished").



I find that really hard to believe. The fake D850 buyer didn't notice that their camera...
... lacks 1/8000 shutter speed?
... shoots 24MP images instead of 46MP?
... maxes out at ISO 6400 rather than 25600?
... only has 39 AF points instead of 153?
... has different controls than the manual shows?
... has SD memory card slots instead of one SD, one CFE?

For any Nikon repairs that require replacement parts, often your only choice is to send the camera to one of the two Nikon USA repair centers. They no longer have "authorized repairers". They had about twenty around the US until a couple years ago, when they "fired" them all. Now Nikon USA will not sell replacement parts to anyone... Not to other shops or to private parties. So unless a repair can be done without replacement parts or a parts from a donor camera are available, you have no choice but to send the camera to Nikon for repair.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

I'm replying to a previous amfoto1 post that isn't showing up here in Quote Reply. "Not true. Nikon USA service dept. WILL work on gray market cameras. They changed that policy a year or two ago."

I know that Nikon said it would work on some cameras as recently as 2016, but I couldn't find any evidence online of blanket coverage.

https://petapixel.com/2016/05/20/nikon-now-allows-grey-market-camera-repairs-us/
https://petapixel.com/2021/07/28/couple-learns-hard-lesson-about-buying-gray-market-nikon-gear/

From Nikon:
"Nikon products that are imported and sold by anyone other than Nikon Inc. USA are considered Gray Market products. These often are genuine Nikon products that were intended for other countries; therefore, they may not meet Nikon’s specifications for US products or perform as expected, and they are not covered by a Nikon USA warranty or eligible for Nikon USA repair service."
https://www.nikonusa.com/en/nikon-store/shopping-help/gray-market.page

epd1947

In the US, Nikon will only perform repairs on cameras imported into this country by Nikon USA. So, if you buy a gray market camera, or import and have a repair issue Nikon will not service the camera even if you are willing to pay for the repairs out of pocket.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Or, you can send it to Japan.

Brian45 Loc: Melbourne, Australia

Does it really matter? Are their any "special" features that make it American?

Ctrclckws

Blessed by NikonUsa?

Hardware wise, my opinion is nothing special.

Perhaps when memory was more precious, they might have localized languages and not included all of those supported in ROM.

Perhaps the label.