Caporegime
You're liable to pay VAT and duty, the latter already paid as it is an EU member state.
D600 with full fat AF system!
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Soldato
If the D600 lowers in price towards the £1600/1700 mark, will you buy one of those over the D800 due to needing two bodies?
If it was that price at launch, I'd probably seriously consider one as long as the weather sealing is good, but the current price is just too similar to the D800 to justify buying one over the bigger model.
You would need to add UK VAT on top of that when imported to the UK, so around 18% or whatever it is now. Switzerland is just a cheap place for computer and mobile hardware (possible the cheapest in Europe or thereabouts, no idea why considering everything else is more expensive) full stop... but only if you buy within Switzerland. Plus, as far as I know no Swiss places would ship outside of Switzerland, the costs would be prohibitive as the post system is very expensive here.
Would be easier to get dirt cheap flights here and then bring it back with you in a suitcase... though you'd obviously have to declare it at customs...
Caporegime
VAT is 20% at the mo 
Soldato
If it was that price at launch everyone would be saying wow it's going to be really cheap in a few months once all the early adopters have been burnt so nikon really couldn't win either way!
Caporegime
Off to NYC in a little over 2 weeks' time and hotel is 100 yards from B&H....
Apparently the NY B&H store is something else. I really want to go.
Soldato
Suppose you'll get to try a D600 out then if you go there. They don't look like they carry D800 stock though at the moment but my parents are going over in february so if I haven't bought by then (highly doubt it though! lol) I'll probably get them to pick me one up.
Soldato
Glad I did not hold out for the D600 now at that price!
Makes me even more glad I just bought a D7000 and 18-200 VRII for a bargain price. That will keep me very happy for a while. . .
Associate
Pre-orders up on sites like Jessops in the UK. £1955 body only. Looks like I won't be buying a D600 afterall then. Waited so long for the announcement too. Gnnnnn. Pff.
Soldato
Was kinda interested in the D600 but with the prices may as well get a D800 if I ever want to upgrade.
Associate
They've really got it all wrong for the UK market. It's too much, damn it! Where's the incentive to buy this over the D800 at that price? I mean really!?
Soldato
Can we please stop the price moaning in every other post, it's a release day RRP the below comment really sums it up. Unless of course it sells like hot cakes and nikon put the price up! One think I think it will stop is the lowering of the d800 price I think tha will stay where it is for a while and maybe even creep back up.
I'm not sure how you figured that out, seems to be least d7k with a FF sensors which is what it always was goin to be.
More expensive that we were hoping, UK prices are always a little odd though.
Current US d800 price is $3000, d600 release price is $2100! Sony a99 is $2800. In the US at least the d600 is at a good price point and basically what I said yesterday at 0.7 times the d800, which is perfectly fair because it at least 70% of the camera.
Also relative to the similar Sony a99 which uses the same sensor the Nikon is massively cheaper, and would hesitantly say a better camera. Just think about this, Nikon is selling more camera for much less money than Sony. Thom Hogan is saying the same thing.
One of the things that has been very noticeable in the camera world is inflation and currency exchanges increasing prices a lot in the UK. Look at the prices of the latest canon lenses to see how prices have in general gone up, up and up.
Anyway, I am very interested to see what the sensor can do. Sony seem psyched about it, maybe encroaches Nikon D3s territory at 24 mp, would certainly make some heads turn.
Current US d800 price is $3000, d600 release price is $2100! Sony a99 is $2800. In the US at least the d600 is at a good price point and basically what I said yesterday at 0.7 times the d800, which is perfectly fair because it at least 70% of the camera.
Also relative to the similar Sony a99 which uses the same sensor the Nikon is massively cheaper, and would hesitantly say a better camera. Just think about this, Nikon is selling more camera for much less money than Sony. Thom Hogan is saying the same thing.
One of the things that has been very noticeable in the camera world is inflation and currency exchanges increasing prices a lot in the UK. Look at the prices of the latest canon lenses to see how prices have in general gone up, up and up.
Anyway, I am very interested to see what the sensor can do. Sony seem psyched about it, maybe encroaches Nikon D3s territory at 24 mp, would certainly make some heads turn.
VAT is 20% at the mo
If you buy from CH you can get the 7.5% Swiss tax (TVA) removed before adding the uk vat.
Associate
Its only £200~ less than a D800
Associate
Wonder if it comes with a functioning left AF sensor
at current prices, it should slip down to about 65-70% D800 prices as it is in almost every other country. You cannot compare current D800 prices with RRP D600 prices.