Nikon 70-200 f2.8 in stock?

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Hi guys and gals,

I am looking to buy a Nikon 70-200 f2.8, which will be used for weddings/portraits mostly. I have also looked at the Siggy 70-200 as well and feel that the quality overall of the Nikon warrants the extra dosh.....

Does anyone know where the Nikon is currently in stock?? Oh and if it has a buy now pay later option so much the better :D

TIA,

Alan
 
Not expensive at all. They are cheaper now than they have ever been, that goes for nearly all pro quality lenses. The price has remained virtually static - an 80-200AFS was the same price 3 years ago.

Look at how 300 f2.8 lenses have come down. Mine was over £3000 about 4 years ago. The same lens today is about £2300.

Yuou want the ultimate quality, you have to pay for the extra quality of glass, the better quality coatings and the faster aperture. At £1200 it is a very good value.

Try Calumet, or Fixation. I know Fixation will have them in stock.

There is another way to look at it, especially for business use. Are you going ot be using it on a day to day basis? Or just weekends for weddings? Thought of renting it for the weekend? About £40, instead of lashing out the whole cost, which means your money is dead from Monday - Friday.

Why pay to own something that you are only using for 1/6th of the time you are paying for? With rental, you have no maintenance costs, no depreciation to worry about, the entire cost is tax deductible, not just 20%, you are not stuck with an old lens when a new one comes out......plenty of good reasons to rent.
 
Very, very hard to get at the moment - I ended up buying one off ebay. I doubt you'll find one at any Nikon dealers until well after the end of August - and I get the feeling there will be a price rise to accompany the new deliveries :lol:
 
mattyh said:
I got my 70-200 from Mifsuds, at a very good price.. It did take me 4 hours on the phone at work to track one down though :D

I'd consider selling it.... considering the amount of stock currently available how about £1500, no offers? :lol:
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I'll take £1600 for mine.....;)
 
I never pay more than £665 for one :)

Although they are hard to get at the moment!
 
Yep. They are dead easy to get for $1300 USD, which is about £665 give or take exchange rate fluctuations.
 
puddleduck said:
Yep. They are dead easy to get for $1300 USD, which is about £665 give or take exchange rate fluctuations.
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Well on most of the USA sites people are struggling to get a hold of the 70-200 like we are over here. It doesn't appear to be readily available there either and when I was over there fairly recently (New York) the price was no where near $1300 and there were none available at B & H. :shrug:

Picked mine up from Fracster on this site for a very reasonable price and as new :thumbs:

Chris :)
 
puddleduck said:
Yep. They are dead easy to get for $1300 USD, which is about £665 give or take exchange rate fluctuations.
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That's strange, because they are impossible to get stateside right now too. Mind you when Jessops don't have them they could probably say they are £665 as well :lol:
 
Laugh all you want, but I've had 3 and never paid more than £665.

The trick is to wait until there is a rebate going in the USA (often $100 or $200 instant rebate). Its usually about $1500, so that takes the new price to $1300. Which deflates the used price even more.

Its easy :)
 
puddleduck said:
Laugh all you want, but I've had 3 and never paid more than £665.

The trick is to wait until there is a rebate going in the USA (often $100 or $200 instant rebate). Its usually about $1500, so that takes the new price to $1300. Which deflates the used price even more.

Its easy :)
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The key word there is wait...for how long though? Six months, a year? Not likely to be a rebate any time soon....
 
Fixation had 3 in stock when I was in touch last week.

Got an 80-200AFS going begging if that is any good.

The 300 f2.8 - that is the price I was given when looking to update my insurance. The 500 f4 is much the same as it was though.
 
Yuou want the ultimate quality, you have to pay for the extra quality of glass, the better quality coatings and the faster aperture. At £1200 it is a very good value.

Try Calumet, or Fixation. I know Fixation will have them in stock.

There is another way to look at it, especially for business use. Are you going ot be using it on a day to day basis? Or just weekends for weddings? Thought of renting it for the weekend? About £40, instead of lashing out the whole cost, which means your money is dead from Monday - Friday.

Why pay to own something that you are only using for 1/6th of the time you are paying for? With rental, you have no maintenance costs, no depreciation to worry about, the entire cost is tax deductible, not just 20%, you are not stuck with an old lens when a new one comes out......plenty of good reasons to rent.
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Good points Lensflare - I have used the 70-200 before and as my business picks up would like to have the security of having my own copy;)

Very, very hard to get at the moment - I ended up buying one off ebay. I doubt you'll find one at any Nikon dealers until well after the end of August - and I get the feeling there will be a price rise to accompany the new deliveries
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I hope that there will not be a massive price rise.....

got my 70-200 from Mifsuds, at a very good price.. It did take me 4 hours on the phone at work to track one down though

I'd consider selling it.... considering the amount of stock currently available how about £1500, no offers?
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:lol:

I'll take £1600 for mine.....
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:lol::lol:

Laugh all you want, but I've had 3 and never paid more than £665.

The trick is to wait until there is a rebate going in the USA (often $100 or $200 instant rebate). Its usually about $1500, so that takes the new price to $1300. Which deflates the used price even more.

Its easy
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Presumably that includes airfares to the USA:shrug:

Keep the options coming folks :D

Alan
 
I think there could be a lot of availability after the Olympics.

Nikon have diverted a huge proportion of their output to Beijing. I read somewhere that there were offering a deal for any pro togs out there - trade in your used Canon gear for brand new Nikon equivalents, for free. But when you consider how much gear a pro tog takes to the Olympics I suspect they might not get as many takers as they expect.
 
If you're in the market for an "as new" used one, I have mine up for sale .. now that sounds a lot like I am pimping my lens :thinking: :p
 
Thanks for the offer Wail, however the buy now pay later, or a reasonable finance option that doesn't charge 29.8%, is the way I have to go at present :(

Stewart, perhaps if I contacted my local professional Nikon dealer with a secondhand Canon P&S, we might come to an arrangement :lol::lol:

Thanks,

Alan
 
Hooky said:
Stewart, perhaps if I contacted my local professional Nikon dealer with a secondhand Canon P&S, we might come to an arrangement :lol::lol:
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you could try it Alan, but somehow I have this spooky feeling it might not work. There were a couple of clues in my post: "Beijing" and "equivalent". ;)
 
jessops had the canon 70-200 f2.8 in stock today as I picked one up :razz: ;)
 
you could try it Alan, but somehow I have this spooky feeling it might not work. There were a couple of clues in my post: "Beijing" and "equivalent".
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Darn........

jessops had the canon 70-200 f2.8 in stock today as I picked one up
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If you are trying to make me jealous - you've failed :)

So all the OP would need is a file and a can of satin black spray paint?
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:lol: Do I really want the tropical grey version? (thinks)...... Nah :lol:
 
Nikon, also, make a grey version of their famous 70-200VR AF-S ... but it's a bit more pricy than the normal charcoal-black copy. So, theoritically, all one needs to do is to get Tipex (sp.) and remove Canon and put Nikon
 
i was trying to get one over the last month, but due to the olympics i was told that all stock was over seas
 
Calumet don't have them, WarehouseExpress don't (despite both saying they did and taking payment) Jessops don't, Fixation don't. There are some grey imports floating about (at full price :bonk:) but that's about it.
 
Hmmm......

So basically nowhere has them in stock at present (UK)

So would it be a worthwhile option to go for a Sigma 70-200 f2.8, or a Nikon 80-200 f2.8 in the short term and then sell on when the 70-200 becomes available :thinking:

In terms of resale value the 80-200 would probably hold its value better - I believe the quality of the optics is on a par with the Nikon 70-200. Has anyone had experience of both?

TIA,

Alan
 
Hooky said:
Hmmm......

So basically nowhere has them in stock at present (UK)

So would it be a worthwhile option to go for a Sigma 70-200 f2.8, or a Nikon 80-200 f2.8 in the short term and then sell on when the 70-200 becomes available :thinking:

In terms of resale value the 80-200 would probably hold its value better - I believe the quality of the optics is on a par with the Nikon 70-200. Has anyone had experience of both?

TIA,

Alan
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PurelyGadgets have them in stock, but I'd go for the 80-200 option, unless you need the VR or want to buy my 70-200 VR off the seller when I send it back :lol:
 
Clifton Cameras have now got new stock this morning when i ordered mine
 
StewartR said:
Nikon have diverted a huge proportion of their output to Beijing. I read somewhere that there were offering a deal for any pro togs out there - trade in your used Canon gear for brand new Nikon equivalents, for free.
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Do you have any source for that at all? That seems like complete lunacy in a business sense. How on earth would they make any money giving away so much gear. I can understand them wanting to gain market share in this segment to create a positive brand image (Canon did this very well with white lenses) but giving gear away is just madness.
 
xolotl said:
Do you have any source for that at all? That seems like complete lunacy in a business sense. How on earth would they make any money giving away so much gear. I can understand them wanting to gain market share in this segment to create a positive brand image (Canon did this very well with white lenses) but giving gear away is just madness.
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Actually,if the story is true, it sounds like good business practice to me....

The amount of "free" advertising that is to be gained from an event like the Olympics dwarfs the cost of a few (albeit expensive) camera lenses. Why do you think VAG (Volkswagen Audi) "lends", and by that I essentially mean gives, cars to the British royal family? It's the same thing, it's all about media exposure.

If the pro togs/royal family are seen using, and therefore endorsing, a particular brand then it sends over a message to the hoi polloi viewing public, - not,"oh, look these cameras/cars must have been free ", but rather "oh,look, there is someone in at the top of their game/in a position of respect (pushing it a bit in the case of the royals I know, but bear with me :naughty:) who could use any brand they wanted and have chosen 'Brand X', therefore it must be the best available."

It's all about brand exposure, I mean you don't really buy all that nonsense about Canon L glass being white to help keep the glass cool in extreme heat do you? In realilty it's white so that it is readily identifiable to a target market, in this case you and I, wherever press 'togs gather.

So, to recap, a relatively small amount of money invested in getting your brand/product exposed to a worldwide audience will, in theory, repay itself many,many times over.

Thus endeth Marketing 101 ;)
 
xolotl said:
Do you have any source for that at all? That seems like complete lunacy in a business sense. How on earth would they make any money giving away so much gear. I can understand them wanting to gain market share in this segment to create a positive brand image (Canon did this very well with white lenses) but giving gear away is just madness.
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Pro's don't swap systems very often, if at all, generally. That's why the D3 was out of stock pretty much everywhere from launch for so long, they just didn't expect so many switchers/sales.

So if Nikon wanted togs to swap, they need a big incentive. Swapping old for new gives them that. And don't forget, the old traded in Canon kit will get sold off, which will re-coupe some of the revenue.

Pete
 
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