I am planning to buy a Nikon 55-200mm lens and I was checking prices at B&H and there is a $30 difference (almost 15% of cost) between "Imported" and "USA" lenses. What is the difference between the two? Is there any drawback of buying the "imported" lens?
Answer
It goes beyond warranty; Nikon USA will not work on gray market lenses AT ALL, regardless of warranty status and your willingness to pay. You have to find someone else to do it, or send it overseas to Nikon Japan (who won't honor the warranty but will at least take your money). Non-Nikon repair shops might be riskier due to parts availability and expertise issues (VR lenses are very complicated) and the fact that Nikon is pressuring (or wants to pressure) them into similar non-repair policies.
Thom Hogan has a more detailed article about it.
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