The new Panasonic GH4 is still selling very well according to Amazon US DSLR (yes DSLR!) ranking. But there is also another new Panasonic product: The new Panasonic DMW-FL580L Flash is now available for pre-orders at Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
And Adorama has also a great deal on the almost forgotten GF2 🙂
The Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF2 with Panasonic 14mm f/2.5 Lens is now only $349.00! Take into account that the lens sells for $322.95 on its own! You can order it in Black (Click here), Silver (Click here) or Red (Click here).
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You might not have noticed, but the E-M1 is listed under Digital SLRs too as are the PEN and other OM-D cameras.
Hopefully this link works:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_nr_p_89_6?rh=n%3A172282%2Cn%3A%21493964%2Cn%3A502394%2Cn%3A281052%2Cn%3A3017941%2Cp_89%3AOlympus&bbn=3017941&ie=UTF8&qid=1394733450&rnid=2528832011
Like we all said, it makes logical sense since they are simply an evolution of SLRs with a new kind of viewfinder. Any other categorization is problematic.
New flash with wireless, good. Radio wireless or infrared wireless? They don’t tell, so I assume it’s infrared. Bad. The price is OK though.
It is infrared, since that is what both Olympus and late model Panasonic support. If you need radio with TTL, the only known solution is the Aokatec AK-TTL system, where you put a transmitter on your camera that watches for the IR pulses sent out, and then retransmits those pulses via radio waves to the receivers, which have a little LED to trigger the remote flash.
Thanks.
Calling a gf2 a “deal”, really? that camera is worthless. and the lens is about 200$ on ebay.
ive seen the gf3 body go for <100€ thats a better deal.
seeing those prices on ebay make we wonder why i sold my 14mm for less than 110€ :/
At that price range, the question would be how much I’d value a starting kit or a 2nd body while not being picky specs peeper and rather looking at what’s available on the discontinued side. Worthless resale value maybe, but not valueless.
Well, it’s worth $100, so almost worthless in resale value. 😉 You can sometimes get E-PL1’s, E-P1’s and E-PM1’s on eBay for $100 with the 14-42 lens. Superb value if you ask me.
Both kits will take pics.
$600 for a flash?!?!?!
Yeah, it’s stupidly overpriced. I thought $300 was a lot for the Olympus FL-600R
I just bought a set of these to use with my FF &MFT kits.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/By-UPS-Godox-WITSTRO-AD-180-Flash-Light-Speedlite-with-PB960-Battery-Pack-/290924440877?pt=Digital_Camera_Flashes&hash=item43bc72ad2d
You get a bare-tube flash ( way better light quality than the Panny and the strobe puts out about 4X the light of the Panasonic and is completely variable). incredible rechargeable lithium ion battery pack (good for 1000 shots with I-sec.recharge)…a charger, a radio transmitter, a receiver, reflector & diffuser. All for $531 shipped?
Very pro and sooooooooo much more for your money…..
Yeah, I totally agree. I’m about to get a couple of these to complement some Godox Ving V850’s I already have. These have lithium-ion rechargeable batteries, GN58, 650 full power shots in one charge, recycles in 1.5s, 24-105mm zoom (eqiv) £100 inc tranmitter/receiver which can control output level in 1/3 steps from 1/1 to 1/128 in up to 16 groups. They are getting rave reviews too. You could get four of these for one FL580L!
I’m missing how this is worth twice as much as a FL-600R.
Try looking at twice the power. The FL50R was around that price (more here in Australia).
Upon more thorough investigation the guide number on the Panasonic is 190′ @ ISO 100…that is a powerful strobe!
Guide numbers can be misleading. At what focal length was that measured?
Yea, too expensive for a flash light, Panasonic can keep it. Thank god gh4 has a built-in, and hopefully it will handle most low light situation alright. Been using the Gh2 for 4 full years without an external flash.
If you want a powerful flash you have to pay for it! Simples! 😉
Unless you need the LED continuous light feature, check ebay for a used FL50R, you’ll have all the power you’ll need there, or look for one of the Metz lights, good quality and heaps of power and all the functionality of a 50R,
If the V3 price is madness, how come the US$600 flash and gf2 rip off are not ?
I wonder what justifies the $600 price tag for a light bulb these days…
Its not like it ANY new and advanced technolog in it.
People buying this are detached from reality…
And have GAS that warramts medical supervision.
I chose the manual third party route long ago. For 600$ I can get 6 Yongnuo speedlights. CRAZY
This is a flash with a continuous light for video. Video applications wise, you’ll grow out of this really quickly (unless night-time street interviews is your thing.) If you’re buying this as your first flash unit for photography, consider this. Instead of investing in one $600 flash unit (and then planning to buy a slave unit later because you’ve blown your budget), consider buying 2 manual flash units like YN-560’s ($65 each). They are full manual.
At first I thought manual flash was very limiting and virtually unusable in a changing environment. Who has the time or opportunity to fiddle with the settings for each shot? But it forced me to get comfortable shooting in all manual with or without flash. You learn to predict the exposure and adjust accordingly. I don’t think I would have much use for a master flash unit anymore.
Maybe for event photographers it would save you from having to manually adjust your settings whenever you move when you only have one shot. But for honing your photography skills, you’re denying yourself the mental exercise of visualizing how light sources travel, bounce, overlap, plays on color/texture/shadows, and how light is everything when it comes to composing and balancing your shots.
This skill which will continue to improve over time will not only improve your photography, but it will improve your videography as well. Eventually you’ll realize that having a small continuous light source for video on directly facing the subject really isn’t worth the extra $500+, or even $50.