{"id":4747,"date":"2014-08-05T00:29:06","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T04:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/blog\/?p=4747"},"modified":"2014-08-05T00:38:44","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T04:38:44","slug":"last-few-big-white-deals-500mm-ii-8999-200-400-10499","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/last-few-big-white-deals-500mm-ii-8999-200-400-10499\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Few Big White Deals &#8212; 500mm II $8999, 200-400 $10499"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not really a secret anymore: many photographers have been taking advantage of super-low super-telephoto prices from Canada over the last 6 months, but not for much longer.<\/p>\n<p>In early 2014, a weakening of the Canadian dollar vs. the US dollar meant you could buy super-telephotos from Canada for thousands of dollars less. The best part is: Canadian lenses come with a &#8220;Canon USA and Canada&#8221; warranty card, and are eligible for warranty service in both countries, making it a great deal.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately this party is being shutdown: our friends to the north at Canon Canada have instituted a large price increase &#8212; 15% overnight &#8212; as well as a new MAP policy on super-telephoto lenses.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, street prices have already started to rise from lows we saw in March. We know of a few remaining great deals on super-telephotos, but only while quantities last:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/product\/03579\/Canon-EF-500mm-f4L-IS-II-USM-price.html?streetprice\">EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM for $8999<\/a> (compare with $10499)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/product\/03872\/Canon-EF-200-400mm-f4L-IS-USM-Extender-1.4x-price.html?streetprice\">EF 200-400mm f\/4L IS USM Extender 1.4x for $10499<\/a> (compare with $11799)\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not really a secret anymore: many photographers have been taking advantage of super-low super-telephoto prices from Canada over the last 6 months, but not for much longer. In early 2014, a weakening of the Canadian dollar vs. the US dollar meant you could buy super-telephotos from Canada for thousands of dollars less. The best [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[631,443],"class_list":["post-4747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-canon-ef-200-400mm-f4l-is-usm-extender-1-4x","tag-canon-ef-500mm-f4l-is-ii-usm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4747","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=4747"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4764,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4747\/revisions\/4764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}