Nikon Nikkor Z 70-200 mm f/2.8 VR S review - Introduction

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Nikon Nikkor Z 70-200 mm f/2.8 VR S

30 September 2021

Maciej Latałło

1. Introduction

If you are a renowned optics producer with a new system you will try to offer in your line-up classic journalistic zoom lenses as fast as possible – we mean here, of course, lenses like a 24-70 mm and a 70-200 mm as fast as f/2.8.

The Nikon full frame mirrorless system was launched in August 2018 and the first of lenses mentioned above we saw just several months later, in February 2019; it was the Nikkor Z 24-70 mm f/2.8 S we've already tested.

For the 70-200 mm f/2.8 you had to wait a bit longer because it was launched in January 2020. Despite the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic it hit the shelves very quickly but its price has been rather steep, reaching $2600. Have you ever wondered whether it was worth such an amount of money? We hope the following chapters will help you dispel your doubts.

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Courtesy of the Nikon company we have been sent one specimen of that lens for testing purposes and now we can invite you, dear Readers, to find out how it fared in our tests – enjoy your reading!

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