For non US readers this will be surprising but the GH3 is only now in Stock in US thanks to Adorama (Click here). Once again we saw that Panasonic has to workout a solution to deliver the camera in time on the US market. Adorama also sells some special kits on eBay (via Slidoo).
P.S.: New Gh3 review at Eattheblinds.
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Yeah, I’m really surprised that in US it’s available only in one shop. Because in Japan it’s freely available on Amazon and in any major offline electronics shop
Paraphrasing a line from “Black Swan,” the only thing getting in the way of Panasonic is Panasonic! This was the same supply issue with the GH2 as well. Panasonic knows how to deliver the low-end cameras to the US, they just don’t know how to deliver the high-end cameras. WTF?
“Only now”???
It has been in stock now and then for many months. For example:
http://www.43rumors.com/gh3-outscores-slrs-in-consumer-reports-lab-tests-and-in-stock-at-adorama-and-samys/
http://www.43rumors.com/panasonic-45-200mm-for-999-and-gh3-superkits-at-adorama/
http://www.43rumors.com/panasonic-gh3-in-stock-at-bhphoto/
http://www.43rumors.com/gh3-in-stock/
only for a very short time (soemthing like 1-2 hours). Not a big quantity arrived and there should be no problem anymore!
Other shops sell out fast, but I think he means it’s been a while since Adorama was out of stock.
Off topic: The Camera Store and Olympus are reunited 🙂
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=20Dp2b6hWyg
Oh thank goodness somebody brought olymous into the discussion…now somebody mention ibis
Your Olympus hate is funny and sad at the same time.
Buy a gh3 and go take some pictures.
My basic impression is that many of the large technology companies have very good engineers and very bad managers.
At the risk of sounding racist, I especially think this is true of the big Asian technology companies.
Brilliant technical engineering let down by utterly hopeless management.
We had the same problem in the USA. Look at GM: astonishing money-making machine in the 1990s and early 2000s, and somehow they blew it.
And in western world that greedy top management screwing companies (including banks) has ridiculously exorbitant salaries.