It’s so hard to find the 50mm for NEX in US stores that this might be a good deal even if you have to pay a $50 extra for it! Pcnation is right now selling 13 of them through Amazon (Click here). If you still want it for $299 than you will have to wait 4-7 weeks (according to Amazon).
Meantime the A57 is in Stock at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here), BHphoto (Click here) and [shoplink 12322 ebay]Sonystore ebay (Click here)[/shoplink]. But Sony Japan keeps saying that it has been delayed and release date is April 27th ?!?!?!
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Sony and their retailers should start something like a pre-order to get rid of these price increases.
How would that help?
…because those staying away from these bastards would have a real advantage.
The official price for the SEL-50F18 is €/$ 299,– so the street price usually would be around €/$ 260-270. That’s not really a cheap APS-C lens anyway, nevertheless it provides quite convincing picture quality. Therefore it’s annoying waiting for this lens and finding often overpriced offers.
In the meantime I’d like to recommend watching out for the two Sigmas, which aren’t expensive and experience an additional price drop in Europe these days…
It’s funny you mention PCNation. I attempted to purchase the 50mm from them on amazon.com a couple weeks ago and it said they had 12 in stock. They waited almost a week and canceled my order telling me they were out of stock. So they were (and likely still are) lying about their stock.
Instead I found a local shop in St. Louis with one and got it for MSRP instead of $350.
A57 is in stock at Kamerahuset in Denmark.
Body price is DKK 5295 ~~USD 940 ~~EUR 710.
Only $50 above retail. Such a deal. (not)
Should price gouging be illegal?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9QEkw6_O6w
I’m just going to place this here…
We’re not talking about emergencies here that needs justification by neo-liberal economic ideologists. It’s simply a waste of time and attention waiting for a lens being announced for quite some time, but got delayed by sad reasons already and then always seeing these greasy offers most photographers simply prefer to ignore. People should be into using this lens and not only into buying it and having to organise how to do this. If Sony would made an offer to pre-order it for around €/$ 270-280 many people simply could look forward to the arrival without having to look around frequently…
Neo-liberal what? Just stop.
…just watch that YouTube video.
First… lol…
Second There is a shortage, and the fact that this supplier raised the price $50 is the only reason they were even around long enough to get noticed and posted here.
Now say you *needed* that lens now rather than later. Perhaps for a vacation that you want it for. Perhaps spending $50 more is not only a value to you but also the only reason you are able to have the lens at all. You have no reason to complain, you are not forced to pay the higher price, and does not delay the availability of the product at a normal price later.
You obviously haven’t read my posting until it’s last sentence. Whoever wants to pay more for this lens for whatever reason should do this, but I’m pretty bored while waiting for this lens being bothered with these greasy offers. What kind of exciting photography rumours are that, when you’re getting bored by YouTube Videos about economists’ silly ideology?
Buuhuuu…. 🙁
I am waiting and waiting for the next NEX.
I would really like a new NEX-5N with EVF and extreme good high
ISO performance. When can we expect a replacement for the NEX-5N?
This year or nex(t) year?
I got mine for $260 at Peace Camera in Raleigh, NC. I went in there looking for a Canon FD 50mm, got to talking with the saleperson and they said they were going to stop carrying Sony. I was pleasantly surprised when the guy said they had a native (E-mount) 50mm 1.8. No way, I said. To boot, they cut the price on it since they are no longer carrying Sony. I guess the moral to this story is try your local camera shop first.
What a crooked system. Sony seems to have no problem with these price gougers but you never see someone undercut the price Sony sets. If they did that I guarantee you Sony would have a big problem with them.
Sony defenetly have production problems and this fact sounds not good for the system users.
Yesterday, you posted about the new BlackMagic Cinema Camera. I didn’t read the post, because have to work. Today I couldn’t find this post any more.
What happened?
Wrong posting! Sorry!
I got mine on the 13th of April from Sony france (270€ = 300€ with a 10% discount code i found on a website…). I pre-ordered it in November 2011 🙂
Worth the wait !
I just got Word from Amazon (USA) that my order of the 50/1.8 will arrive on 25 April. I ordered it on 13 April, and then the arrival date was given with 15-30 May.
Well, it gets even better – I just received the shipping confirmation, and the lens will arrive even a day ealier on the 24th now … good thing that I was patient enough to not buy the overpriced $349 variety they offer at Amazon for immediate shipment … 🙂
same here axel.. i ordered on the 10th and i should have it this week from amazon!