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Canon EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III

lens · Canon EF · released 1999-04-01
Lowest now
$43
Steep discount -78% vs MSRP
Pricing by source ↓
MSRP at launch
$199
Apr 1999
Inventory
98
across 1 source

Well above the 90-day low

How we compute this

Today's price sits well above the recent low. Today's price runs 139% above the 90-day low of $18 (seen Jul 18, 2026). 22% of the $199 MSRP. Prices are down 6.5% over the last 30 days.

Lowest now
$43
MSRP
$199
vs MSRP
-78%
90-day low
$18
All-time low
$18 (Jul 18, 2026)
30-day trend
-6.5%
Observed across 1 source · 80 days of history in last 90 · Methodology

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Specs

Brand
Canon
Family
Canon EF
Category
lens
Body type
Mount
Canon EF
Sensor
Megapixels
Lens type
zoom
Focal length
75–300mm
Aperture
f/4.0–f/5.6
Weight
480 g
Filter thread
58mm
Length
122 mm
Diameter
71 mm
Construction
all-plastic
Released
1999-04-01
Status
likely discontinued

Notes

manual MSRP: Budget telephoto; often bundled.

Latest pricing by source

Each row is a direct observation from the seller. How this works.
Source Condition Price Listings Observed Link
mpb
well used
→ fair
$43 1 Observed 14h ago view listing
mpb
good
→ good
$58 97 Observed 14h ago view listing

Price history

One point per day per (source, grade) pair, connected with lines. Hue marks the source; lightness within a hue marks the condition (darker = better grade). The dashed line is launch MSRP.

See Methods notes #1.1, #1.2, #1.3.

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Methods

How we compute each section

References on each chart link down here. More notes will land as new sections grow.

1. Price history

#1.1 · Grade buckets
Each seller publishes their own raw condition labels (e.g. "Excellent+", "Like new minus", "Bargain"). Those are normalized to a small bucket set: mint, excellent, good, fair, poor, and unknown. The "Latest pricing by source" table above shows both the raw label and the normalized bucket so you can audit any individual mapping.
#1.2 · Missing days
A point is only drawn on a day when a snapshot existed for that (source, grade) pair. Lines connect across gaps so a series with sparse sampling still reads as a single trend, but absence of a point does not mean a stockout: it means we didn't see a listing at that grade that day.
#1.3 · Color encoding
Hue carries the source: terracotta = mpb, sage = keh, cobalt = B&H, honey = ebay. Lightness within a hue carries the condition: darker means a better grade (mint and excellent are darkest; poor is lightest). The dashed ink line is launch MSRP, included as a reference even though it isn't a price observation.