S3 2000 current market price?

[ark8012]

What would be the current market price for S3 2000 in good user condition?

 

[markwatts]

KEH continues to pitch them at c. USD1800

 

[ark8012]

Is it body alone or as a kit?

 

[markwatts]

That was a kit price

 

[ark8012]

Thank you!!

 

[thompsonks]

Collectiblend, which averages auction results, says $1500-1600 for a user.

Be sure lens is the original one.

Collectiblend also shows a substantially descending price curve for S3 2000s.

 

[RObert Budding]

I'd likely buy one if I could find it for your listed prices.

 

[Highway 61]

I'd likely buy one if I could find it for your listed prices.

I sold mine (Mint condition, body only) with boxes and all paperwork for $950 one year ago, here at the RFF Classifieds. Too bad you didn't buy it then.

I guess the problem is not with their price, but rather with their relative rarity (especially for the camera body only). People seem to keep theirs. And not too many were made (relatively as well).

And crappy eBay sellers continue to list them at nuts prices. But those outfits have been listed for sale for years already, with no success.

Not speaking of collectors trying to re-sell them with a profit, while their value has rather decreased than increased since they were first put on the market.

 

[thompsonks]

I recently acquired a new (or LNIB?) black S3 2000 body for $1800. The box had been opened to sell the lens separately, but the body seemed to have original uncrinkled wrapper. This must be top price for a body?

The problem was to find a suitable lens. I used an older Nikkor and then found a new 50 Sonnar C 1.5 in S mount – same decade as the body and apparently rarer than the lens that had been sold out of the box. This cost several hundred dollars more than the same Zeiss lens in M mount.

I have a half-case to protect it and use an S2 when at beach, or in rain or in dangerous territory (children or muggers).

This might not be a reasonable expenditure for an S3, particularly because I could find a nice 1.5 Sonnar C for M9 for about $1K. I bought it for aesthetic reasons – the beauty of the body and the bokeh of the lens. Also I didn't want it to go to a collector.

I'm shooting a current project with it, but I'm not sure I need/deserve such luxury. S2 is fully fun; S3 feels like a responsibility.

Kirk

 

[enasniearth]

S3 2000 black

S3 2000 black

I recently acquired a new (or LNIB?) black S3 2000 body for $1800. The box had been opened to sell the lens separately, but the body seemed to have original uncrinkled wrapper. This must be top price for a body?

The problem was to find a suitable lens. I used an older Nikkor and then found a new 50 Sonnar C 1.5 in S mount – same decade as the body and apparently rarer than the lens that had been sold out of the box. This cost several hundred dollars more than the same Zeiss lens in M mount.

I have a half-case to protect it and use an S2 when at beach, or in rain or in dangerous territory (children or muggers).

This might not be a reasonable expenditure for an S3, particularly because I could find a nice 1.5 Sonnar C for M9 for about $1K. I bought it for aesthetic reasons – the beauty of the body and the bokeh of the lens. Also I didn't want it to go to a collector.

I'm shooting a current project with it, but I'm not sure I need/deserve such luxury. S2 is fully fun; S3 feels like a responsibility.

Kirk

The black s3 2000 was produced in far lesser quantitys than the chrome type
I read somewhere ,
8000 chrome s3 2000 kits
2000 black s3 2000 kits .
The black camera will always be more costly than the chrome type .
So 10,000 millennium 50 1.4 nikkor lenses produced .
The zeiss c Sonnar is quite rare ( less than a thousand ? )
Nice outfit .
Hard to believe the chrome s3 2000 kit was $5500 when issued new .

 

[enasniearth]

KEH continues to pitch them at c. USD1800

The last one on their site was ln at $2200 about three months back
Chrome kit in box like new condition

 

[thompsonks]

So 10,000 millennium 50 1.4 nikkor lenses produced.
The zeiss c Sonnar is quite rare ( less than a thousand ? )
Nice outfit.
Hard to believe the chrome s3 2000 kit was $5500 when issued new.

I've read that a figure was never released, but there are probably only 200-300 Sonnar C's in S mount.

Were S3 2000's originally that expensive? I read somewhere that they cost Nikon $6K make, but sold for about half that?

Kirk

 

[enasniearth]

S3 2000

S3 2000

The ads in the photo magazines at the time first had them listed at $5500
These were dealers banner ads in shutterbug and other phot magazines .
At one point the price dropped to $4800 .
When the sp limited kit was produced in 2005 they sold out at $6900

 

[maitani]

some of the quoted prices above seems very,very low to me, and might be true for some countrys only.

in real world (depending on how patient you are) probably around this ballpark:

if you buy seperate (always depending on condition and completeness of packaging etc.)

1100-1300 for a silver re edition body, 900-1100 for the lens
1800-2000 for a black re edition body

if you buy in set
1600-2100$ silver
2000-2700$ black

I've also seen black sets selling (yes selling) for around 3800 euros, but this more in premium stores like leicashop vienna, with according customer base

if you're lucky of course you can score all of the above much much cheaper for example in rff classifieds or similar.

 

[Highway 61]

in real world (depending on how patient you are) probably around this ballpark: (...)

In real world, the currency rates between the CHF, the € and the $ have been changing a lot over time recently, and this has to be considered too.

And the market demand/offer for this stuff isn't the same as it was five years ago. The demand is lower.

 

[_goodtimez]

I may have a brand new S3 Kit that I won't use. My private email is joanbont@yahoo.com

 

[sp9107sp]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Nikon-S3-Li...716392281?pt=Film_Cameras&hash=item2c67953359

camera has been up on ebay for 15 hours, black body in the box with the lens
according to seller used a couple times, $2100 bid $2900 bIN,

 

[ellisson]

A good deal

A good deal

Yes, that was my ebay listing, and there was only one bidder who grabbed up this very nice set for 2175, a great deal. I purchased it about 3 years ago from an Asian seller for price of 3000. I was surprised to see only one bidder at my starting price, but I guess expensive items of relevance to a limited group of enthusiasts can be like that.

On the other hand, I wish the winner much pleasure in owning this wonderful set, truly a beautiful camera body and wonderful lens. It was a joy to own, but college debt must now be reduced, and I am setting up my son, a beginning high school Latin teacher in Potttstown PA, in an apartment.

Gary

 

[thompsonks]

I'm amazed. Even with Nikon RF prices on a downward curve, IMO it should have sold a lot more than that.

Kirk

 

[ellisson]

I agree, Kirk, I agree. I will learn from this experience.
Gary