{"id":1077,"date":"2015-06-24T18:02:38","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T10:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ywo.id.au\/blog\/?p=1077"},"modified":"2025-02-23T21:49:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T13:49:23","slug":"nikkor-af-s-70-200-mm-f2-8-vr-ii-on-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/2015\/06\/24\/nikkor-af-s-70-200-mm-f2-8-vr-ii-on-special\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikkor AF-S 70-200 mm f\/2.8 VR II on special"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s issue of\u00a0<em>The West Australian<\/em>, Camera Electronic has advertised the Nikkor AF-S 70\u2013200 mm f\/2.8 VR II lens for $2,538 (after cashback from Nikon). This is the lowest price I&#8217;ve ever seen for this lens in Perth. I wouldn&#8217;t expect it to ever really fall below this figure, as this is already lower than the price for the equivalent Canon lens. The timing is right for a new version of this lens to be announced, so this could be a sign that production of the current version is ceasing.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_318\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-318\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/YWO_ND1_79980s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-318\" src=\"https:\/\/ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/YWO_ND1_79980s-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"Nikkor AF-S 70-200 mm f\/2.8 VR II lens, March 2015, Perth\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/YWO_ND1_79980s.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/YWO_ND1_79980s-80x120.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-318\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nikkor AF-S 70-200 mm f\/2.8 VR II, March 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Unless you really need the f\/2.8 aperture for low light shooting, the f\/4 version of the lens is much cheaper, physically lighted, and\u2014by all accounts\u2014an excellent quality lens. It&#8217;s been described\u00a0as one of the best value-for-money lenses in the current Nikkor range, and Camera Electronic\u00a0currently has it at $1,855.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1086\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1086\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/NikkorAFS70-200mm4VR.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1086\" src=\"https:\/\/ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/NikkorAFS70-200mm4VR-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"Nikkor AF-S 70\u2013200 mm f\/4 VR\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/NikkorAFS70-200mm4VR.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/NikkorAFS70-200mm4VR-120x80.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1086\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nikkor AF-S 70\u2013200 mm f\/4 VR image \u00a9 Nikon 2015. Used under Copyright Act 1968, Section 41.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I also see the Canon EOS 7D Mk II on offer at $1,999 (body only). This is almost\u00a0as low as the $1,988 advertised in <a href=\"https:\/\/ywo.id.au\/blog\/2015\/04\/11\/canon-eos-7d-mark-ii-on-special\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">early April<\/a>\u2014a slight savings on the usual $2,100 price, but a discount is a discount.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s issue of\u00a0The West Australian, Camera Electronic has advertised the Nikkor AF-S 70\u2013200 mm f\/2.8 VR II lens for $2,538 (after cashback from Nikon). This is the lowest price I&#8217;ve ever seen for this lens in Perth. I wouldn&#8217;t expect it to ever really fall below this figure, as this is already lower than&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/2015\/06\/24\/nikkor-af-s-70-200-mm-f2-8-vr-ii-on-special\/\" class=\"read-more\" title=\"Nikkor AF-S 70-200 mm f\/2.8 VR II on special\"><span>Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text sr-only\">Nikkor AF-S 70-200 mm f\/2.8 VR II on special<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[90,54,46,41,55,98,42,63,30,69,56],"class_list":["post-1077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-equipment","tag-camera-bodies","tag-camera-electronic","tag-camera-lenses","tag-canon","tag-canon-eos-7d-mk-ii","tag-nikkor-afs-70-200-4-vr","tag-nikon","tag-perth","tag-photographic-equipment","tag-special-sales","tag-the-west-australian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4173,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions\/4173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}