Thailand floods drown Nikon, Sony camera factories

Posted on October 20, 2011 by Les Jones

Massive floods in Thailand have swamped Nikon and Sony factories there. From Thom Hogan:

So what things are made in the affected [Nikon] plant? D3100, D5100, D7000, D300s bodies, plus the 18-55mm DX, 18-105mm DX, 18-200mm DX, 70-300mm, and I think, 60mm Micro-Nikkor lens are assembled there, as well as the 24-120mm and 28-300mm. That’s basically the bulk of Nikon’s consumer DSLR sales, plus a large chunk of the low-end FX optics.

I’ve been pondering the Nikon 24-120mm VR F/4 lens. This is making me consider going ahead and getting one now before the supplies dry up.

LATER: Sony postpones release of new cameras due to Thailand floods.

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One Response to Thailand floods drown Nikon, Sony camera factories

  1. DirtCrashr says:
    October 20, 2011 at 4:46 pm

    My Nikon-of-interest just showed-up at Costco, the AW100 underwater and ruggedized CMOS camera. But I’m not keen on the GPS enabling (I just don’t care about GPS), or what 16megapixels does, so I’ll wait a year and keep shooting Hawaii snorkel (and other) pics with my Pentax Optio W60 (the W80 and upwards has total suckage for low-light resolution).