I am very interested to see how the prices of both version will go since the price of the new version has been set so high. will the new version worth the money? we will have the answer pretty soon. but one thing for sure IMHO, the prices of Canon gears will keep going up if the dollar keeps getting weaker.
To give you an idea of the price comparison for the old versions.
The 300mm 2.8 is3589 pounds, new MKll version is offered at a pre-order price is 7399 pounds.
At B&H old $4340 no new versionprice yet. So that gives you an idea of US dollar to british pound.
http://warehouseexpress.com/is the English website it says they are due March.
Hopefully these are only the pre-order prices and meant onlyfor people who have their own kingdoms floating on oil.
Steve U
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Originally Posted by Steve U
Adorama has the new 300mm f/2.8L IS II available for pre-order, at a price of $7000 (and lists the MkI for the same $4340). FWIW, they were also the first to have the new 70-300mm f/4-5.6L IS zoom available for pre-order, and their price was $1500, but closer to release it actually went up to $1600, so the early orderers got a price break.
$7000 is ridiculous. I haven
The Canon USA press release indicates retail pricing of $7K for the new 300/2.8 and $11K for the new 400/2.8. Yikes!
www.the-digital-picture.com/.../Canon-2010-Summer-Lens-Announcement.aspx
I thought they didn't announce the pricing in the Aug announcment. I wonder if they went back and updated this.
The pricing is ridiculous.
$7000 for a 300mm is too high, only make some sense if the IQ and AF performance of 300mmII+TCsIII combo is surprisingly good. but it doesn't seem like that, we will see pretty soon. but keep in mind even it is very good, it is only for 1D users.
400mm is a little bit different. I guess some people will pay that much for the new version just because it's 28% lighter so they can finally handhold the lens. same as the 600mm and maybe the 500mm.
if they raise the price of older version 10% and reduce the new one 10%, that would make a lot more sense to me.
Nope, it was there originally in the Canon USA press release. But the UK version of the press release doesn't list pricing, and that's the one that's posted most places (e.g. DPReview, etc.).
No argument on that point...
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