> At 3:06 PM +0900 11/21/2000, Jim Davis wrote:
> > I checked the EOS 7e here in Japan again today, and ouch, the price
is
> >77,000 yen body only. That's roughly 750 U.S. dollars.
>
> Whoa. That's something like 1.5x what I've seen the 7 selling for
> here. Very expensive.
>
> Does anyone know of any Japanese camera shops with Web pages?
>
> - Neil K.
Try:
http://www.yodobashi.co.jp/
or this one for a ton of other links in Japan:
http://photojpn.org/
Not much info in english though...
I can't figure out why the stuff is so expensive here, Canon is only a
few hundred kms north of me, it can't be the shipping costs :-)
Maybe the government lays heavy tax on the home market, or because the
Japanese are used to paying high prices, I don't know. The only good thing
here is there's alot of deals on used EOS stuff. I paid a little bit more
than B&H's U.S. price for my lens, but cameras seem way too expensive here
in Japan. For what it's worth, my lens price came out very close to what I
was quoted in Toronto before I came over here. ($750.00 Can.) However, the
big U.S. dealers seem to be able to sell stuff very cheap indeed. You
Americans are lucky.
Jim Davis
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