{"id":6025,"date":"2014-11-10T23:02:02","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T04:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/blog\/?p=6025"},"modified":"2014-11-11T17:10:15","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T22:10:15","slug":"ef-100-400mm-f4-5-5-6l-is-ii-announced-pre-order-at-2199","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/ef-100-400mm-f4-5-5-6l-is-ii-announced-pre-order-at-2199\/","title":{"rendered":"EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L IS II Announced: Pre-Order at $2199"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br >Canon finally announced the highly anticipated <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> at 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>.<\/p>\n<p>The new lens comes in two inches longer and 3 ounces heavier than its predecessor, but now sporting 4-stop IS (vs. the 2-stop IS of the original). The <a href=\"http:\/\/usa.canon.com\/cusa\/consumer\/products\/cameras\/ef_lens_lineup\/ef_100_400mm_f_4_5_5_6l_is_ii_usm\">newly published MTF charts<\/a> for the lens look quite impressive. Another thing is for certain, that annoying push-pull zoom is gone!<\/p>\n<p>Pre-order at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/go\/BH-Photo-Video\/EF-100-400mm-f4.5-5.6L-IS-II\/p=5613&#038;m=5&#038;d=5\">B&#038;H<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/go\/Adorama\/EF-100-400mm-f4.5-5.6L-IS-II\/p=5613&#038;m=6&#038;d=5\">Adorama<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/go\/Amazon\/EF-100-400mm-f4.5-5.6L-IS-II\/p=5613&#038;m=20&#038;d=5\">Amazon<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/go\/Profeel-via-eBay\/EF-100-400mm-f4.5-5.6L-IS-II\/p=5613&#038;m=62&#038;d=5\">Profeel<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canon finally announced the highly anticipated EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L IS II at a hefty $2199 USD introductory price tag, representing a 65% premium over our street price of $1329.99 AR for the Mark I version of the lens. The new lens comes in two inches longer and 3 ounces heavier than its predecessor, but now [&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":[454],"class_list":["post-6025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-canon-ef-100-400mm-f4-5-5-6l-is-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6025","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=6025"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6057,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6025\/revisions\/6057"}],"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=6025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}