{"id":1169,"date":"2015-07-29T23:26:29","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T15:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ywo.id.au\/blog\/?p=1169"},"modified":"2025-02-23T21:48:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T13:48:15","slug":"canon-ef-70-200-mm-f2-8-is-ii-on-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/2015\/07\/29\/canon-ef-70-200-mm-f2-8-is-ii-on-special\/","title":{"rendered":"Canon EF 70-200 mm f\/2.8 IS II on special"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s issue of\u00a0<em>The West Australian<\/em>, Camera Electronic\u00a0has advertised the Canon EF 70\u2013200 mm f\/2.8 IS II lens for $2,544, as well as the Canon EOS 700D and the Nikon D7200 at special prices (and both with kit zoom lenses).\u00a0If you&#8217;ve been waiting for a good price on this Canon lens, this is the cheapest I can remember seeing for it.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_870\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-870\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/CanonEF70-200mm2.8ISII.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-870\" src=\"https:\/\/ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/CanonEF70-200mm2.8ISII-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"Canon EF 70\u2013200 mm f\/2.8 IS II\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/CanonEF70-200mm2.8ISII.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/CanonEF70-200mm2.8ISII-120x80.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-870\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Canon EF 70\u2013200 mm f\/2.8 IS II image \u00a9 Canon 2015. Used under Copyright Act 1968, Section 41.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Looking at Camera Electronic&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/cameraelectronic.com.au\/published-specials.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">current specials<\/a> on-line, the Canon EOS 750D appears to be on special, too.\u00a0I also see that the Nikkor AF-S 70\u2013200 mm f\/2.8 VR II is at $2,438 (after cashback from Nikon). This is an amazing price for a professional-grade lens like this, and beats the previous low price of $2,538 that I noticed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ywo.id.au\/blog\/2015\/06\/24\/nikkor-af-s-70-200-mm-f2-8-vr-ii-on-special\/\">last month<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_873\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-873\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/NikkorAFS70-200mm2.8VRII.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-873\" src=\"https:\/\/ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/NikkorAFS70-200mm2.8VRII-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"Nikkor AF-S 70\u2013200 mm f\/2.8 VR II\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/NikkorAFS70-200mm2.8VRII.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/NikkorAFS70-200mm2.8VRII-120x80.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-873\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nikkor AF-S 70\u2013200 mm f\/2.8 VR II image \u00a9 Nikon 2015. Used under Copyright Act 1968, Section 41.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Both the Canon and Nikon 70\u2013200 mm lenses above are top notch, heavy duty lenses. At f\/2.8, they&#8217;re still nowhere near as fast as the best prime lenses, but they do give you significant versatility with their focal length ranges and vibration reduction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s issue of\u00a0The West Australian, Camera Electronic\u00a0has advertised the Canon EF 70\u2013200 mm f\/2.8 IS II lens for $2,544, as well as the Canon EOS 700D and the Nikon D7200 at special prices (and both with kit zoom lenses).\u00a0If you&#8217;ve been waiting for a good price on this Canon lens, this is the cheapest&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/2015\/07\/29\/canon-ef-70-200-mm-f2-8-is-ii-on-special\/\" class=\"read-more\" title=\"Canon EF 70-200 mm f\/2.8 IS II on special\"><span>Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text sr-only\">Canon EF 70-200 mm f\/2.8 IS 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":[90,54,46,41,219,258,177,58,42,57,63,69,56],"class_list":["post-1169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-equipment","tag-camera-bodies","tag-camera-electronic","tag-camera-lenses","tag-canon","tag-canon-ef-70-200-2-8-is-ii","tag-canon-eos-700d","tag-canon-eos-750d","tag-nikkor-afs-70-200-2-8-vr-ii","tag-nikon","tag-nikon-d7200","tag-perth","tag-special-sales","tag-the-west-australian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169","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=1169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4171,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions\/4171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}