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Unlike US in Europe you have also an E-P5 with 14-42mm kit option. I collected a few links where you can preorder the camera. Feel free to add much more links by commenting this post. Thanks!
E-P5:
E-P5 Black at Amazon Germany, Amazon UK and at Wex UK.
E-P5 White at Amazon Germany, Amazon UK and at Wex UK.
E-P5 Silver at Amazon Germany, Amazon UK and at Wex UK.
E-P5 Black with 17mm f/1.8 lens and VF-4 at Amazon UK.
E-P5 Silver with 17mm f/1.8 lens and VF-4 at Amazon UK.
E-P5 White with 17mm f/1.8 lens and VF-4 at Amazon UK.
E-P5 Black with 14-42mm lens at Amazon Germany, Amazon UK and Wex UK.
E-P5 White with 14-42mm lens at Amazon Germany and Amazon UK.
E-P5 Silver with 14-42mm lens at Amazon Germany, Amazon UK and at Wex UK.
45mm f/1.8 Black at Amazon Germany.
Refurbished E-PL5:
[shoplink 38771 ebay]Black E-PL5 with 14-42mm lens (Click here)[/shoplink], [shoplink 38772 ebay]Silver E-PL5 with 14-42mm lens (Click here)[/shoplink], [shoplink 38773 ebay]Black E-PL5 with 14-42mm (Click here)[/shoplink], [shoplink 38774 ebay]Black E-PL-5 with 14-150mm lens (Click here)[/shoplink].
Refurbished E-M5:
[shoplink 38777 ebay]Black E-M5 with 12-50mm lens and vertical grip (Click here)[/shoplink], [shoplink 38776 ebay]Black E-M5 with 12-50mm lens (Click here)[/shoplink], [shoplink 38775 ebay]Black E-M5 with 12-50mm lens (Click here)[/shoplink], [shoplink 38726 ebay]Black E-M5 with 12-50mm lens (Click here)[/shoplink].
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30% higher price than in the US.
Sad face.
Move.
Yeah,
Just asked the local Oly dealer whatbthe price would be in Switzerland 1299.- that is a whooping 190.- then the OM-D when it came out, for the Body only.
I do hope they will change that, i was prepared to pay as much for the body only as for an OM-D or a Fuji X-E1 or NEX-7 . But this is not working for me, i do hope Oly sells a lot and well it also gives me a bad feeling for the upcoming OM-D replacement.
If that is there goal, to charge more for less, well i guess I wont get happy with m4/3, which is a shame.
I love the primes for it and hey even the bodies like p5 and e-m5 are right up my ally in what I was looking for.
Oh well!!
Move.
Why, I can still hope for the new OM-D
But I kinda figured that response would come, I don’t complain about it, I just said that as of now, that Oly is out of my comfort zone, not more not less.
In my personal opinion, anything above 1100.- CHF from current ILC makers should come with an EVF built in or in the Box.
If I would sail the m4/3 ship already I would even go for it after a while, but I need to switch system, and therefore I’m looking at Pana/Oly , Fuji and Sony, to me Sony is out of the race. i do like the m4/3 System the most of them, so I had the OM-D set for me, so now the P5 came along. And as I stated would have been fine to pay the same price for less.
It is one thing to keep the current users happy, it is another to attract new customers to a system that need to chip out some cash to get into it, and then excatly is when one needs to be competitive.
All this is just my personal opinion.
The US prices are without sales tax. I bet the prices in Europe include the VAT.
Yes they do, but that only makes me feel it’s the same situation in the states then.
I do wonder tough, is the P5 more or less expensive then the OM-D when it came out in the US
Didn’t the OMD body cost around $1,100 at its release? Also figure in inflation.
Anyway, for a body without EVF and not weathersealed it’s to expensive, compared with E-M5 and compared with cameras from other companies. I never would buy an E-P5 for this price. Before I would buy a Fuji X-E1 (also because Fuji has better zoom lenses at the moment then Olympus) or a Nikon D-5200 if size doesn’t matter.
nope it launched at $999 body only
If that’s true, and I’m not saying it isn’t, amazon.com is charging today exactly what they were charging when the OMD came out.
Yeah but its been on sale a few times (100-200) off
The issue was the retail price at introduction.
£899 with a kit lens is not bad!
the kit lens is crap and I doubt that anyone spending £899 on a camera body with no EVF will br interested in the lens.It is just a way of getting rid of a crap lens that doesn’t sell , just clearing junk of the shelf really. I would not even consider buying a mFT body without an EVF , so bottom line is £1150 is what I would need to spend or £819 for a n E-m5 with built in EVF weather sealing, identical image quality, 5- axis etc , unless the price comes own pronto , the sales of this are not going to help Olympus . I just bought a GH3 with the same image quality , better video , built in EVF , weather sealing, fully articulating LCD , and far better ergonomics for £200 less.
They introduce a black 17/1.8 to ‘clear out stock’ of a lens that wasn’t selling?
Your logic is amazing.
which is quite silly as the OM-D offers more: weather sealing and EVF.
Not saying that there is no improvement, but the OM-D had by comparison higher specs when it came out 18 months ago.
Well, E-P5 prices will came down quickly as other PEN did I guess. It will be normal price soon. If some users want to cash out some extra to get it asap, I’ll not complain.
E-P5 with 14-42mm kit that’s ridiculous…i prefer buy E-P5/17mm 1.8/VF-4 in US and pay custom in France.
Have just read a review in imaging-resource on the E-pl5. Link :http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/olympus-epl5/olympus-epl5A.HTM.
In the review apperently the myset functions can be set to the iAuto or Art mode dial. I couldn’t perform the similar myset function changes on my E-m5 except on the Fn1 or 2. Anyone could advise whether the myset function can be set onto the useless iAuto or Art mode dial in E-m5?
Sorry Hifinut, not possible, that is one advantage of the E-PL5, it maybe on the E-P5
Yes, Mysets into Mode dial works just like in E-PL5.
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Correction: with E-P5 you can, with E-M5 you can’t. At least at the moment.
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Thanks
Please more E-M6 rumors please, it sounds like it could be the ultimate camera and my last camera ever.
…until the ultimate E-M7 arrives 🙂
Because of Olympus inability to calculate exchange rates (ie. 1 USD = 1 EUR = 1 CHF ), Swiss shops have some very nice prices 🙂 : http://www.topd.ch/Digitalkameras–Video/Olympus/PEN-E-P5-black-Set-EZ-M1442-IIR-E-P5-Body-black-000800425/ . That’s around 930 euros, Swiss tax included!
WoW that is nice indeed body only for around 1000.- CHF.
I am back in the race, Oly dealer in Basel told me 1299.- body only
Less than 800 £ Sterling, very good.
You have to take the VAT in account when you compare EU prices to Switzerland prices. In the EU the VAT varies between 19% and 21% depending on the country. In Switzerland we pay more revenue and fortune taxes, so the VAT is 8%. What succeeds most of the time is that the manufacturers, distributors or retailers (not easy to determine who?) take us away what the indirect taxes don’t take. So in the end, when you compare prices without VAT, which is the only fair way to do, we end up paying more than others.
One thing however : usually the official prices given by the manufacturers are higher than the following street prices. Or at least you can find lower prices if you wait for a while and shop online. Just don’t shop by Photovision, because they always ask the official price.
As a consumer, you end up paying prices including VAT, so prices including VAT are what is relevant to a consumer, and when comparing prices, it is the only fair thing to compare.
Comparing prices without VAT is only valid in a few situations:
– you are a company and can claim back VAT
– you are trying to determine the underlying price policies of a company
Well I live in Sweden and last time I checked VAT here was 25% so your info about VAT in Europe is far from correct, before I moved I lived in Portugal and the VAT in there is currently 23% for these kind of products so I would say that the upper interval can go up to 25% at least.
The price for E-P5 with 14-42mm lens in Germany is 1099 EUR with their 19% VAT, thus 924 without it. Swiss price is (according to toppreise calculator) 931 EUR with 8% VAT, 862 without it. Amazon UK price is 1064 EUR with 20% VAT, ie. 887 euros sans VAT. US body only price is around 770 EUR, without any tax, which would ( I suppose ) be around 870 EUR + taxes with 14-42mm.
So, Germany and the rest of EU are still in the lead :). Apart from being lazy, I think Olympus is just playing it safe with this kind of pricing policy – the highest price being in what is their largest market. In case of any bigger exchange rate changes, it’s the best way to loose as little money as possible.
Photo equipment is always cheaper in Switzerland then in Germany 😉 But anyway, for the E-P5 I wouldn’t pay more then, 800, 850 Swiss Francs, body only, 300 more with double zoom kit.
But it’s really frustrating, that I could buy a 40-150 in US for 200 $, in Switzerland it’s from 320 Swiss Francs. That difference is to big. And 320 for this lens is to expensiv if you think about the quality, Mine is a nice sharp lens, but I had to clean it 4 times in 2 years beause there was so much dust inside (also the 14-42). Now warranty is over, and if I want to clean it again it will cost about 100 Swiss Francs. At the end it would be cheaper to buy a new one, but I don’t know if I will do that or change the system and leave Olympus because they still don’t have some better zooms then the existing ones.
I really don’t understand the stupid Olympus product policy concerning zoom lenses. Very disapointing.
Will there be a kit with 12-60?
How does that work, 12-60 is a 4/3 mount…
I meant 12-50…
Selling GF’s used E-P3 and lens wont even put a dent in that 17mm + EVF kit price…
I suspect that the E-P5 is as close to a “modular body” as we will get. What’s really missing is a battery grip for not only improved vertical handling but also for extended shooting. If cameras didn’t have such a short production life, aftermarket manufacturers would have time to come up with a grip.
While I have qualms about the durability (flimsy hinge that can’t be locked – I put a ghetto rubber band around my VF-2) of the pop-on EVF, I find the concept fine and more usable than an inbuilt EVF. I am used to shooting with 35 mm bodies with interchangeable finders. I have the VF-2, and I find it usable, although not on par with a good optical finder. The VF-4 should be very usable, especially since its magnification factor should be “good enough.”
The price? Well, it’s only $150 overpriced, really. That’s like three or four dinners for two. I could stand to lose a few pounds. Or I’ll just wait six months. 😛
From the looks of it, the VF-4 does lock (it seems to have the unlock button)
The VF-4 locks in the hot shoe, but the tilt mechanism isn’t lockable. On the VF-2 a rubber band is an ugly solution.
Why is there no pricing/deal on a E-P5 + 17/1.8? Why is it coupled with that ugly piece of Lego called a viewfinder?