Contracts are not warranties. Very clever technicality Nikon, you are on solid legal ground but this makes you look petty, cheap and loose with the facts. No, no doubt about it, if you neglect to fill out the separate ESC card and send it within ten days, you are hosed out the extra four years. But morally, this is really slimy behavior. You should not get out of providing something that you have used in advertising and promotion on a technicality. That's what slimy companies and organizations with mob lawyers do, not what good companies like Nikon do.
Or at least we thought so. Hopefully Nikon service will just look the other way if I need service at 13 or 36 months. I do have the receipt. But even to send it in under warranty, they require a copy of the warranty card with the lenses serial number visible on the card I made a scan and printed a copy.
But even if they do take care of me, it is not very reassuring to know that they are under no legal obligation to take care of me as a customer, if they do, it will be out of bending their own rules or laziness in not looking up my ESC.
Given the type of questions they ask and the address it is mailed to, I believe this is more for marketing demographics than anything else.
I've never mailed one and have never had a question getting the 5-year warranty. That's reassuring to hear. I recall with all of my D series lenses, I bought gray market, used, new USA, it never really mattered because I have never had a Nikon lens break or malfunction in over 30 years of shooting. But the new AF-S lens motors seem to be delicate and relatively unreliable. The 2. But VR does work, does make a big difference on long focal lengths, etc. As usual, companies add lots more complexity, cool features and innovation at the expense of build quality.
But D series lenses are build so much better. My mm 2. Just wondering as I may have used the online registration rather than sending in the card alone. One new boxed lens had a entry coupon for some outdated Nikon contest and no card, but it was purchased at a local USA dealer so who knows? Seems pretty dirty if that is a mandate that "The Card" be mailed in too. They could always say "We didn't get it" and then you are screwed if true.
I once worried about that as well. I had an that quit autofocusing, and when I went to send it to Nikon, it was only 2 days before the one year anniversary of its purchase.
I went so far as to overnight it to El Segundo, but I also talked with a Nikon service rep there. He told me that the 5-year warranty applied whether or not you filled out the card and sent it in, as long as you had the warranty slip itself and the sales receipt on a Nikon USA lens.
Bottom line: the ESC is just a means to gather marketing information, and the threat on the card is an empty one designed to get you to fill out the card and send it in. Hopefully my 2. Think about it, how would Nikon prove you didn't send it in?
Things gets lost in the mail all the time. The proof of burden is on them not the customer. As long as you have a valid receipt from an authorized dealer they couldn't legally prove you didn't send the warranty card in. We dig into the detail The Nikon Z mm F2.
Initial production of a product was almost always a two-digit variant of that with the second digit being zero e. In a few cases, Nikon has used digits outside a region when production exceeds , units see Note in next paragraph, though. In other words, while US products normally would be 30, 31, 32…39 in initial numbers, Nikon set things up so that they could make, say, a 25 region code that's US for a product normally that would be Japan.
Note : Nikon never changed the number of digits in most product serial numbers, which as product quantities increased during the early digital age, caused Nikon to have to abandon the clear logic they formerly used and which the above table suggests. For example, with the D, Nikon started using the 25xxxxx code for the first US bodies.
Since the US D number comes after the initial number for the smaller Japanese market, it makes some sense to "steal" some of the Japan numbers for the larger US volume. A few products, most notably the low volume top end pro cameras, use only the Japan-based serial numbers. Thus, you can have a D3 with a 20xxxxx serial number no matter where in the world you bought it curiously, the D5 reverted back to the regional numbering system.
The same scheme often applies to lenses, though most recent US DSLR lenses are prefaced with the letters US and some recent lenses have longer serial numbers. Information like production date, status of production, whether or not the model has been discontinued and other interesting facts about the Nikon lens you own are available if you know where to look.
Another major benefit of finding the serial number on your Nikon lens is to check to see if you have bought an original product or a fake.
With so many fake products on the market, you cannot be too sure if you have purchased an original Nikon lens or a fake one. With a serial number, you can double-check with Nikon to see if the lens you have is an original. Conclusion Check your Nikon lens for the serial number and try searching for it online.
Related Posts. Click Here to Leave a Comment Below. Second digit is last digit of the year. Third digit is version of F3, fourth is revision. For regular F3 bodies, serial numbers up through xxxx are from between and The F4 has a formula that is listed on the old Nikon F4 FAQ site, which has been archived, since the site owner shut it down.
The formula isn't as accurate as the F3 method. F6 bodies, you'd probably have to ask Nikon about. FM2 bodies in the xxxx range all seem to be from Bodies above xxxx typically were the first FM2n bodies. The 73xxxxx serial range started in August and continued through about summer No 79xxxxx bodies were made.
Lower serial 8xxxxxx bodies were all chrome. After the 85xxxxx serial block was introduced, Nikon's convention of alternating the second digit, depending on body color, disappeared.
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