{"id":35134,"date":"2021-04-13T23:25:31","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T03:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/?p=35134"},"modified":"2021-04-13T23:25:31","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T03:25:31","slug":"used-prices-are-high-is-now-the-time-to-sell-your-ef-mount-glass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/used-prices-are-high-is-now-the-time-to-sell-your-ef-mount-glass\/","title":{"rendered":"Used Prices are High. Is Now the Time to Sell Your EF-Mount Glass?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some readers have noted a lack of EF-mount lens deals lately — it’s because the current prices are horrendous. For example, the EF 100-400mm II is now $2399<\/a> and the EF 100mm f\/2.8L Macro IS is now $1299<\/a>. These high prices are likely caused by constrained supply due to the pandemic, as well as a general shift of Canon’s production to RF-mount cameras and lenses.<\/p>\n

The higher retail prices are also causing used lens prices to increase, as many photographers are falling back to used dealers and private sales. It is a fantastic time to sell your lightly used EF lenses to a dealer or broker — in many cases, you can get close to the price you paid brand new! For example, KEH<\/a> is offering ~$650 for a LN- condition EF 100mm f\/2.8L Macro IS. Given that savvy CPW readers could have purchased this lens for $550-$650 as recently as 2019, this is a great opportunity to recoup your EF glass investment and fund a shift to mirrorless.<\/p>\n

Adorama<\/a> has significantly improved their used sale and trade-in process with an online form<\/a> to request a quote. Other great options for selling include KEH<\/a> and mpb.com<\/a> — both offer an instant online quote and can send you a prepaid shipping label, to make it easier to ship the lens to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some readers have noted a lack of EF-mount lens deals lately — it’s because the current prices are horrendous. For example, the EF 100-400mm II is now $2399 and the EF 100mm f\/2.8L Macro IS is now $1299. These high prices are likely caused by constrained supply due to the pandemic, as well as a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35134"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35141,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35134\/revisions\/35141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}