New deals:
One month to go until Panasonic will announced the new MFT cameras. I still didn’t get a 100% reliable info about a possible GX2 but in the meantime the camera got a new price drop and you can grab it for $499 with X lens at Amazon (Click here). That’s a $200 saving over the regular previous price.
There is also a new $120 price drop on the 12-50mm Olympus lens again at Amazon (Click here).
I am way more certain the GF and G series is going to updated. And also here we have running US deals:
G5 with kit lens for $499 at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
GF3 with 14mm pancake for $299 at Amazon (Click here).
Many GF5 X kits for less than $400 on eBay (via Slidoo). Some of them are Power sellers
GH3 is in Stock at Amazon US (Click here).
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This is a rumour site , so what are the unreliable infos? 😉
I just want to hear sth about the gx2 , i’m sick of seeing pricedrops every week … I mean I appreciate the fact that they don’t update their hardware every 6 months, but they have to compete with the other companies.
I love hearing about all the deals. That you can get a GX1 for only $300 is certainly welcome news to many people.
Something has to pay the bills for admin. I don’t mind him telling us about these deals and him getting a little kickback in return. Speaking of deals. Please let us know when the LX7 is back under $300 again. I have a line of people waiting to buy it for that price.
@admin
Did you mean to say “GF1 with X lens…” or “GX1 with X lens”?
Still says $649 on Amazon..
$649 is price from 6th Ave (“fulfilled by Amazon”). Amazon price is $499, but they are now out of stock with 3-6 week delivery time. See the “more buying choices” for this option.
Click on the silver one. It’s in stock at $499,with pz lens,from Amazon.
It’s probably to good to be true, but yesterday on Amazon I found a GX1 w/ PZ Lens for $199 new. We’ll see what arrives in the box though.
GX, G, GF = useless cameras. Can’t imagine how people manage to understand Panasonic’s marketing, and those are not even compact ones…
Useless only if you don’t know how to use it. In photography, I think it is 90% photographer and 10% camera equipment.
oh shit, here we go again
Whats a usefull camera to you?
The GH2, GH3, OMD-EM5. More expensive for sure, but can the GX1 sensor compete with the good Canon compacts (G12, G15) ?
I’m using a GH2, and it is not the perfect camera for photography (i use it more for short films).
All those little G,Gx,GFx are sold with the crappy 14-42mm, and i doubt for this price (even if you put the 20mm f1.7, or the cheap oly 45mm f1.8) they can compete with the other brands “cheap” cameras.
It seemed the G5 had an honest sensor and capabilities, but online opinions and magazines articles were showing more enthousiasm to other brands for the same price.
Your criticism makes very little sense. The whole point of an interchangeable lens is to be able to have flexibility with what you shoot. Knocking a body because the kit zoom is not the best is missing the point. The GX1 is a G3 w/out a built in EVF. The sensor is the same, and can take fantastic pics, even with a kit zoom, but certainly with a better lens. Still you’re welcome to take photos with whatever you want.
The GX1 with a prime mounted delivers excellent image quality in a compact well built well featured body, though I shoot mainly with the GH3’s the GX1 with the 20mm has replaced my old GF1 with 20mm for an ideal take everywhere camera.In fact it loses out by less than 1/2 a stop regarding high ISO and even though the latest E-M5/GH3 options have a couple of stops of DR the GX1 does just fine
+1000
The GX1 is a damn fun little camera and a great match for my GH2! For me, the $319 deal for a black body at B&H was too hard to pass up. I’m glad I did it.
My 20mm lives on my GX1 now instead of buried in my lens drawer.
It’s great with the 14mm Pany or the 12 Oly,too…and much faster to focus.
Lens ‘drawer’?
Must be nice.
Drawers! 🙂
BTW what happened to the GX1 body only price on amazon.co.uk?
In the last few months the price was circa 300 gbp and now is at a all tim elow od 496 gbp???
anyone?
Tnx
grouchomarx
Increased price reflecting continued drop in the value of sterling perhaps?
WHY IS EBAY SO FULL OF PANA AND OLY M43 CAMERAS?
i tell oyu why.. because they suck….
We can only dream of such discounts here in Europe.
629,€ is the cheapest price i found in Austria for the GX1 with PZ14-42 lens!
I got a GX1 with PZ lens (silver) for 390€ last weekend at Saturn in Stuttgart. They also sold the black body (without lens!) at the same time for 390€ too…
I also got an offer for the GX1 (black), PZ lens and electronic viewfinder at my local store for 649,- . But the offer without viewfinder was better for me.
Just bought a GX1 body at B&H for $319 to replace one that met with misfortune:( I love this little camera. It’s the right size. The quality of its build and the images it captures is first rate. Of the 13 digital cameras I own, which includes 3 Canon SLRs, an M and one compact, 2 Panasonic compacts, a GF1, GF2, a Fuji x100, an Olympus EP1, EP2 – it’s my favourite (I took over 8,000 images with my first GX1 out of about 11,000 that I took in 2012). Having said that, I’m curious to see what the new Panasonic offerings will be. I’ll pre-order a GX2 if it has a focusing solution that makes it easier to use my Leica glass.
please admin ,separate between rumors and deals
2 headline ,so boring to see many deals.
Sheesh! Can everyone quit complaining? (I know, too much too hope for being that this is what the internet is for) I love the deals to keep an eye on prices and see what is a good deal as there are plenty of lenses i still hope to buy (Pany 100-300, 7-14, Oly 12-50, etc). I love to read the rumors even when it’s something i doubt I will ever buy (like the GH3).
Just scroll past the stuff that doesn’t interest you.
As an aside to other comments, i am also happy with my recent used, GX1 and used GH2. They do more than I can but I’m still learning them.
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
Ansel Adams
AndyB, NH.
You don’t like website? Then go elsewhere! 😛
For Austrians: Over Amazon you get the GX1 here for about 350€