{"id":6015,"date":"2014-11-09T21:58:35","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T02:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/blog\/?p=6015"},"modified":"2014-11-10T21:35:59","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T02:35:59","slug":"get-notified-when-the-ef-100-400mm-is-ii-is-available-for-pre-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/get-notified-when-the-ef-100-400mm-is-ii-is-available-for-pre-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Notified When the EF 100-400mm IS II is Available for Pre-Order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The yet-to-be-announced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/product\/05613\/Canon-EF-100-400mm-f4.5-5.6L-IS-II-price.html\">EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L IS II<\/a> has been thoroughly leaked by all the Canon rumor sites. We&#8217;re expecting it to be officially announced and available for pre-order within 24-36 hours.<\/p>\n<p>The lens is expected to carry a hefty $2199 USD introductory price tag, representing a 65% premium over our street price of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/go\/CPW-Street-Price\/EF-100-400mm-f4.5-5.6L-IS-USM\/p=61&#038;m=109\"><b>$1329.99 AR<\/b><\/a> for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/product\/00061\/Canon-EF-100-400mm-f4.5-5.6L-IS-USM-price.html\">Mark I version of the lens<\/a>. This is the typical price increase seen for recent refreshes (namely, the 70-200 II, and 24-70 II). We&#8217;re yet to see if the performance from this long-awaited refresh justifies the higher price.<\/p>\n<p>\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\t\tfunction doit(pid) {\n\t\t\tvar form = document.forms[\"myForm\"];\n\t\t\tvar data = 'go=1&email=' + encodeURIComponent(form.elements[\"email\"].value) + '&used=' + ((form.elements[\"used\"].checked) ? 1 : 0) + '&preorder=' + ((form.elements[\"preorder\"].checked) ? 1 : 0) + '&pricedrop=' + ((form.elements[\"pricedrop\"].checked) ? 1 : 0) + '&greydrop=' + ((form.elements[\"greydrop\"].checked) ? 1 : 0) + '&target=' + encodeURIComponent(form.elements[\"target\"].value) + '&targetused=' + encodeURIComponent(form.elements[\"targetused\"].value) + '&targetgrey=' + encodeURIComponent(form.elements[\"targetgrey\"].value) + '&confirm=' + encodeURIComponent(form.elements[\"confirm\"].value);\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/  + website.val() + '&comment='  + encodeURIComponent(comment.val());\n\t\t\tTINY.box.fill('\/notify\/' + pid,1,data,1,500,350);\n\t\t\treturn false;\n\t\t}\n\t\tfunction doit2(pid) {\n\t\t\tvar form = document.forms[\"myForm\"];\n\t\t\tvar data = 'go=1&email=' + encodeURIComponent(form.elements[\"email\"].value) + '&used=' + ((form.elements[\"used\"].value)) + '&preorder=' + ((form.elements[\"preorder\"].value)) + '&pricedrop=' + ((form.elements[\"pricedrop\"].value)) + '&greydrop=' + ((form.elements[\"greydrop\"].value)) + '&target=' + encodeURIComponent(form.elements[\"target\"].value) + '&targetused=' + encodeURIComponent(form.elements[\"targetused\"].value) + '&targetgrey=' + encodeURIComponent(form.elements[\"targetgrey\"].value) + '&confirm=' + encodeURIComponent(form.elements[\"confirm\"].value);\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/  + website.val() + '&comment='  + encodeURIComponent(comment.val());\n\t\t\tTINY.box.fill('\/notify\/' + pid,1,data,1,500,350);\n\t\t\treturn false;\n\t\t}\n\t\tfunction unset(pid) {\n\t\t\tTINY.box.fill('\/notify\/' + pid,1,'unset=1',1,500,350);\n\t\t\treturn false;\n\t\t}\n\t<\/script><\/p>\n<p>As usual, you can <a href=\"#\" onclick=\"TINY.box.show({url:'\/notify\/05613\/',width:500,height:350})\">set a pre-order notification<\/a> to be e-mailed immediately when the lens is available for pre-order, or you can marvel at our new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/product\/05613\/Canon-EF-100-400mm-f4.5-5.6L-IS-II-price.html\">price listing page<\/a> for the lens (which is empty, for now).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The yet-to-be-announced EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L IS II has been thoroughly leaked by all the Canon rumor sites. We&#8217;re expecting it to be officially announced and available for pre-order within 24-36 hours. The lens is expected to carry a hefty $2199 USD introductory price tag, representing a 65% premium over our street price of $1329.99 AR [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6015","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\/6015","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=6015"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6022,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6015\/revisions\/6022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}