I recently ordered (and paid for) a Nikkor 70-200 f/2.8 VR from Jessops to go with my new D200 and was told it would be around 1 to 2 weeks to come in.
Phoned up today as the 2 weeks is nearly up and was told the actual lead time is 4 to 6 months!
So anyway , I called up Nikon Professional support to confirm this and they said there was indeed a major backlog on these lenses.
I then suggested that I could obtain one of these lenses from Hong Kong with a lead time of around 6 days and save myself a fortune. The guy from Nikon agreed and advised me to do this. I was a little surprised due to the warranty on grey imports and questioned this - apparently Nikon will honour the warranty as it's an international warranty and they don't have a problem with grey imports!
So there you go - the moral of the story is that anyone considering a grey import lens should go for it!
