Right now I have been told there is a short delay on the US Olumpus 75mm lens shipment. Nothing to worry about but the message on BHphoto (Click here) isn’t correct. Meantime the Black E-m5 kit keeps to be in Stock at Amazon (Click here). The X pancake sells for $279 only at Amazon (Click here).
Something else. Neither the new G5 nor the high end compact camera LX7 managed to get huge amount of preorders at least when looking at the Amazon (pre-order) rankings. The real hit of the moment is the surprising Sony RX100 (on top!). There seems to be a market for high quality but still very compact cameras with zoom lens. May something Olympus and Panasonic have to watch out!
Preorders of the new Panasonic stuff:
Black G5 at Amazon (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here)
Silver G5 at Amazon (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here)
45-150mm lens in Black at BHphoto (Click here) and in Silver at BHphoto (Click here).
LX7 in Black at Amazon (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here) in White at Amazon (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here)
Other compacts, the FZ200 at BHphoto (Click here), the FZ60 at BHphoto (Click here).
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This is what I was saying yesterday. No retailer in the US has them yet including Olympus USA’s Olympus Store which always ships earlier than any other retailer.
I got a pre-order in at a smaller shop in NYC, a place that usually gets stock very early when it arrives in the USA. The owner sent me a note today with a copy of an email from the Oly Rep.
It stated the 75mm lenses have arrived in the USA. So they are here…I guess they just have to be distributed. The Rep did not know how much stock was here but he was hoping for a lot…so hopefully these bad boyz will be shipping out ot us next week!
Hey Bob, what shop is that exactly? I usually get my stuff from Adorama when I don’t order online, but it’s good to have alternatives to the bigger nyc stores.
It’s H and B Digital….great guys..Tony & Mario.I didn’t pre-order an OM-D but having bought from them before…I just sent an email at the time of the release, inquiring if the might have an Silver Body-Only…What was cool is they called me to tell me they had one if I wanted to buy it just a couple of days later…which I did..and then the package arrived with my camera AND a rockin little Canon EOS aluminum bullet thermos as a free gift! Great guys ! Check them out…but don’t hog my freebies! LOL!
The people at Camera Land on Lexington Ave and 53d (±) are very good, too. Talk to Neil or Doug.
I was there a month ago picking up a Zeiss monocular I won in one of those what-the-heck-I’ll-enter web site contests. I couldn’t believe it when I got the email. So, I went by to pick the thing up. They were shipping out EM5 orders. Cool and funky shop. Nice people.
http://www.cameralandny.com
Ok…you are starting to worry me…you changed your name and now you are recommending a camera/gun shop! LOL!
BTW…something changed with the comments…I guess I have to sign in every time now? The two anonymous comments above are mine…just so you know who is sniping @ you! 🙂
Camera Land is a gun shop, too? Damn, had I known, I’d have picked up an HK P2000SK .40 while I was there. 😉
http://www.hk-usa.com/civilian_products/p2000sk_general.asp
Well…they are having a raffle for Leica gun scopes??? LOL!
I got it here and it is an outstanding lens, probably this does not get any better optically.
I think the slrgear.com’s review is spot-on and it is expensive but worth it.
I think I will compare this lens on my EM5 vs my Zeiss t*2/100ZF2 on my D800 soon.
Looks like everyone got caught with their pants down with the RX100. It’ll be a year before we see more 1″ sensor compacts as I believe Oly will also introduce a 1/1.7″ compact next month.
So now you have Samsung, Panasonic and Olympus going after the same diminishing small compact market, leaving the larger compact market to Sony. The G1X is just an oddball. The RX100 will be in high demand for while.
Ok: today, I finally got a comment on my black E-M5 with silver 45/1.8… “Is it an antiquity?” (I assume that is the meaning… the comment was actually “¿Es antigua?”, or something like that…). I maintain that I don’t care what other people think :-).
Argh…gurgle…thump…
Ahh well, a bit more anticipation… And where is my battery!!!!!
🙂
Delay of 75mm = 🙁
get it from Asia, it has been out here for a month already.
These delays and lack of CA removal support on Oly bodies weakens the system more and more.
Still waiting for August I believe to get mine.
@admin
Any news on fast, tele Panny prime?
Now when we have eos m, Oly should redesign 17mm pancake to be as good&fast as 20mm and Panny should release ~ 9-10mm pancake. It would seal the deal on M43 as a complete – pancake too (10, 14, 17, 20 and 45/1.8) – system.
I was really hoping to have the 75mm for a shoot with my OM-D tomorrow. Oh well.
I received my Sony RX100 yesterday and it appears to a great P&S pocket camera. I ordered direct from Sony which had it in stock.
Just collected mine on last night .
A very solid build lens , also a heavy lens & you can feel the pressure when mount into GX1 .
No lens bag provided unlike 25mmF1.4 . Front lens cap can be further improve .
I still feel that Oly can improve the packaging when it come to such high grade lens .
Image quality so far is impressive , did it worth for such price tag ?
Time will tell .
Just collected mine on last night .
A well solid build lens but also a heavy lens , you can feel the pressure when mount it into GX .
No lens bags provided , front lens cap is too ordinary .
I still feel that Oly can improve it’s package when it come to such high grade lens .
Image quality is impressive but does it worth for such price tag ?
Time will tell .
As far as the mass media and the general public are concerned, the most important thing about a camera is it’s sensor. If you can get “big” and “sensor” in the same sentence, your marketing is done.
If you can also get nice lens, good zoom, HD video, and compact size in the same sentence, people are going to buy it big time.
Trying to tell them it’s a bit slow at the long end isn’t going to compute. So the RX wins.
That’s still an improvement, though. Not long ago the public only looked at the number of Megapixels to judge if a camera is good or not.
Nicwalmsley
As fa as the mass media and general public are concerned the most importing thing about a camera are the gadgets on the camera. If you can get “IBIS” and “weather sealed” in the same sentence, your marketing is done.
I you can also get touch screen, free flash, HD video and relative compact size in the same sentence, people are going to buy big time.
Trying to tell them it has the same picture quality as a I-Phone 4s at the long end isn’t going to compute. So the E-M5 wins.
Low price for 75mm (799 euro)
http://www.apollo.nl/product_info.php?products_id=11009
I actually showed up at B&H forst thing in the morning. Ended up getting Pana 45-175, it was $80 cheaper in silver than the black. I’m going birding next week!
Just received my 75mm, I’m in Australia, it’s released here already, and is better pricing than the US oddly.
Love the lens, extremely good, fast, well built, excellent quality.
Guys who have it pre-ordered will love it!
So is this lens in US yet? Anyone knows?