- Nikon has announced a “necessary price adjustment” for cameras in the United States
- This happens “due to recent prices”, according to the camera giant
- Price increases will take effect from June 23
Nikon officially joins the list of cameras manufacturers who increase the prices of the camera in response to, you guessed it, the American rates.
In a short post on the Nikon US press site, the camera giant said that “due to recent prices”, he provided for a “price adjustment necessary for products”. It will apparently take effect from June 23, which makes it a potentially good time to pick up this Nikon camera that you looked at.
We do not yet know which cameras (or objectives) will be affected, but it should become clear in the coming weeks. Nikon offered a small crumb of comfort by declaring that it “would carefully monitor pricing developments and could adjust prices if necessary to reflect evolution market conditions”.
This could mean an adjustment in the wrong direction if commercial wars continue to warm up, but I hope that price changes will not be as damaging as those we have already seen from other manufacturers.
The DJI Osmo Pocket 3, for example, went from its launch price from $ 500 to $ 800, and remained at this level despite a truce of 90 days on Chinese prices which temporarily reduced the rate on American imports to 10%.
What other camera price increases have we seen?
Nikon is far from being the only one to announce price increases related to prices, although they have not yet entered into force.
Canon gave us a similar warning earlier this month by declaring profits in his quarterly call that he had “informed the main dealers that we will increase the prices and that we are estimating the calendar and the amount of the increase”.
This means that we are in a strange period of waiting where fans of cameras are preparing for price increases, without knowing exactly what models will be affected and how they could already affect existing actions in the United States (in theory, the latter should not be affected by price increases related to import prices).
As the rumors of Sony Alpha pointed out, Sony has apparently increased prices on its cameras and objectives made in China, which include the Sony RX100 VII and a certain number of objectives including the FE 70-200mm F4 Macro G oss II (which knew a price of 18%). But we do not yet know if these prices are a temporary reaction to current prices or a more permanent hike.
Fujifilm, meanwhile, has recently been forced to take a pre-order break on cameras, including X100VI, GFX100RF and X-M5 (black version), while the new Fujifilm X Half has a high price in the United States compared to other regions ($ 849, compared to £ 699 / £ 1.349 in the United Kingdom).
This is clearly a tumultuous period for cameras and objectives – and although the purchase of panic is never a wise option, if it could be worth the trigger soon if you are in the United States and you plan to buy new from Nikon or Canon.
