To get a Nokton 25mm lens is almost like winning a lottery! I just found one single lens in auction on [shoplink 15659]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].
And there is the updated Olympus preorder list:
You can now pre order the Olympus E-PL2 at Amazon, Adorama, Amazon DE, Amazon FR,
And the Olympus XZ-1 at Amazon, Adorama, Amazon DE, Amazon FR and Amazon UK.
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There’s a black Olympus E-PL2 14-150 kit preorder for 929.70 CHF ( around 725 euros ) in http://www.microspot.ch/microspot/product/Digitalspiegelreflex/0000479514/Olympus_E-PL2_Black_Kit_14-150mm/detail.jsf . So for those of you near or in Switzerland, prepared to wait a bit, I think that’s a very good deal. Haven’t seen E-PL2 14-150 kits on European Amazons.
To get a Nokton 25mm, you may just need to phone the right people.
I ordered mine on Amazon FR (which carried it), they gave me an estimate date for delivery but then cancelled my order because they couldn’t be sure about the date anymore.
So I tried another french website that carried it and was supposed to get new stock two days after my order, because they had a local pick-up option and were a tiny bit cheaper than another website that did have some Noktons in stock.
HUGE MISTAKE! Two days passed and they basically told me on the phone that they gave random dates of availability since they could never be sure!
In the meanwhile, the other website went out of Noktons so I could not order there.
I then thought what the heck, I’m in Paris where there are many brick and mortar shops, so I called the french company that distributes Cosina lenses to shops, eventually got the phone number of a sales rep who gave me some addresses of shops that did carry the Nokton.
One hour later, I was walking out of the last shop that carried the last Nokton in Paris, and that Nokton was mine! (And 15% cheaper than on eBay too!)
So, if you happen to have many actual shops around you, try this method and you might just be lucky. 😉
your nokton ebay link points to adorama’s website.
two UK shops are putting the EPL2 + new 14-42 at £529
but actual in-stock price is likely to be a bit competitive
no body only prices yet 🙁
(possibly going to upgrade my EP1 to an EPL2 once the EP3 is launched so I can see if its the EPL2 or EP3 I want more)
warehouse express
and
park cameras (< normally among the best on price)
SRS microsystems don't have the EPL2 showing on their website yet – but they tend to be THE best on price