Nikon Professional Services

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After more than twenty-five years I've been binned from using Nikon Professional Services.

The bodies I use, a D700 and D300 are no longer deemed to be professional enough as they don't keep spares anymore.
To be honest, I can count the number of times I've used their services on the fingers of one hand so it's no real hardship, but it's a bit galling as my lenses are all still eligible.
Rant over
As an aside I really miss the diary they used to send every Christmas, I assume a victim of cost cutting.
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I was curious about what qualifies:

Nikon NPS

nps.nikon.co.uk

Not surprisingly, most of my gear is too old. They allow a D810 but not my D800, a D500 but not my D300, an F6 but not my F5, a 50 f/1.4 G but not my D, an SB-900 but not my SB-800. Only my 24-70 G is still on the list. And professionals, it seems, only use the 1.4 primes, not those amateurish 1.8 primes. No DC lenses in the 'special purposes' category, either, which my orphaned 105 will be very upset about. Oddly enough, the US list is much more permissive:

Product Listing | Nikon Professional Services

www.nikonpro.com

Only 4 things rather than 6, including most primes and decent zooms, and a pretty wide range of bodies, including the D800 and your D700. But, alas, the cutoff is the D300S; its older sibling without that all-important suffix is unlisted. Film cameras don't make the cut, but the humble D3500 is allowed.
 
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No mention of my D3 , How sad
 
I gave up using them when the Service Centre moved out of Kingston.
Since then it's been contracted out to third-party service providers, so it's not 'Nikon' any more but 'Nikon-Approved' meaning they pay Nikon for the gig.

It's the same story here in Germany.
I now go to a local shop in Dortmund (who used to be 'Nikon" but are now independent and use the same engineer as before, who travels around the country working at three or four different locations (like a 19th century tinker or knife-sharpener something, it's quite bizarre).
 
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Sky said:
Neither have I. :(
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The diary was the best thing.
One year instead of the diary some trinket embossed with Nikon arrived, after that a cloth for cleaning your lenses and then ... nothing.
And then I got binned.
At least I don't have to look at their Pro magazine any more.
 
Plankton said:
The diary was the best thing.
One year instead of the diary some trinket embossed with Nikon arrived, after that a cloth for cleaning your lenses and then ... nothing.
And then I got binned.
At least I don't have to look at their Pro magazine any more.
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I quite liked the magazine... something to read on the toilet at work, if nothing else...
 
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