Question What does Nikon have to offer me? Answer 'What does Nikon have to offer?' VS 'What does a grey item offer?'
Possibly the most important part is the serial numbers, which are NOT available elsewhere - please send me: Serial number. Date purchased new - this helps me to date other similar cameras. Where the camera was bought - some cameras have regional serial numbers. The color - some number series may also be color. Introduction About This Manual Thank you for your purchase of a Nikon D60 digital single-lens reflex (D-SLR) camera. This manual was written to help you enjoy shooting with your Nikon digital camera. Read this manual thoroughly before use, and keep it where all those who use the product will read. Probably not. The D3000 uses a CCD with specs that seem to match the D60 (and D80 & D200). The D5000 uses the same CMOS chip found in the D90 and similar to the D300 (possibly a match to the new D300s) with only slight differences in the processing engine (DXOmark rates the D5000 as a near match to the D90 and both very slightly better than the D300).
Besides the functionality and specifications of a camera, another deciding factor is of course the price. Grey market items are relatively cheaper when compared to a Nikon camera purchased through the right channel, yet what are the disadvantages of purchasing a cheaper product? When money becomes an issue, you'll probably tend to think along the lines of, 'Now what does Nikon have that is worth my every penny?'
The table below compares the benefits of a Nikon camera versus a camera purchased through the grey channel. NIKON. GREY. Our products comply with common Japanese standards or regional non-Japanese standards, depending on the region in which the camera was sold.
Items may not meet mandatory safety and certification codes, or may not have been handled properly, therefore they may malfunction easily. Full technical service is provided at your local service centre. During the warranty period, any servicing or repairs will be free of charge, provided the camera was bought in the same country as where it was purchased from. Damage caused by owner's negligence, accident, misuse, do-it-yourself repairs, sand or water is not covered by this warranty. Please check with the Nikon Authorised Service Facility in your country for any prevailing charges to the service which you require.
May not be able to receive full technical support as the warranty is valid only in the country where the camera was purchased from. Certain dealers selling grey items may not be able to provide technical support as well. You will also have to pay to have your camera serviced if it was bought from another country. The manual in the package will be in the preferred language of your region. The manual may not be in the preferred language of your region. The manual is usually a photocopy of the original manual. Users are able to register their product online to download software and firmware upgrades.
Owners of grey items may not be able to download online software and firmware upgrades available from the Nikon site, due to incompatible serial numbers. The software CD included in the package will be an INT (International) version. Software upgrade is easier if the initial software installation was an INT (International) version.
EXIF data will not disclose that kind of info. Only way I know at this point is the receipt from which it was purchased from. The selling dealer should have a record as well. If it was purchased from another user as second-hand, then he/she may be able to help from getting info on where it was purchased from.
Nikon Usa Serial Numbers
Lost a Leica camera, watch, laptop, etc when my home was burglarized two years ago. Wrote to the respective manufacturers with included police report. Nothing came of it. It's basically lost. Just have to move on at this point and hope Karma gets to them some day.
I just double checked a bunch of NEF and JPEG files. For the D2X, D300, D700, and D3, the camera serial number and shutter actuation count are both in the EXIF data. For the D200, only the shutter actuation count is available but not the serial number (or perhaps I somehow missed it).
Nikon D60 Serial Number Location 1
For the D100, neither seems available. The D100 is an old DSLR, but since the D2X was release about a year before the D200, I am a bit surprised that I cannot find the D200's serial number in the EXIF. The D50 was also released in the same year as the D2X and D200, namely 2005. Again, I don't have any files from a D50 to verify it one way or another.
I just had a play around with ExifTool and some raw files from this repository: It looks like neither the D200 nor the D50 files contain numeric serial numbers - I imagine it costs a little extra on the production line to match up a serial number printed on the camera with the same number embedded in the firmware, so perhaps (like many features) this was rolled out with the high-end models first (today, even the D60 embeds the serial). Curiously the D70 (but not the earlier D100) does seem to have some sort of data stored in the 'serial number' tag, but it doesn't match the camera's numeric serial (or is encoded differently) - I suppose an unmatched (but still potentially unique) internal serial number would be easier and cheaper to arrange than the current system of embedding the 'real' numeric serial - I don't know if anything similar is lurking in D50 files that standard Exif readers aren't picking up (if so, it would at least give all the files from a single camera a traceable signature). Incidentally, embedded serial numbers are wrapped up with the infamous topic of MakerNote encryption (as used for white balance from the D2X onwards). For the D2X (and the current models), the serial number is, bizarrely, one of the encryption keys (along with ShutterCount and a 'secret' lookup table). For the D50 and D200, a fixed character (the same for every camera of that model) seems to be used in place of the serial number for this purpose (if I'm interpreting ExifTool's Perl code for Nikon decryption correctly).