For a limited time you can buy the LX7 for $274 at Panasonic US store (Click here). You have to enter the coupon code “LX745” to get the discount! At the same time you can find again a Gold BOX deal on the GF3 14mm kit at Amazon (Click here). You cna get it for $279 only!
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Admin, isn’t that the GF3 with 14mm f/2.5, not the X zoom?
Ops! Corrected! Thanks!
Wow, what a price for LX7! And just 4-5 months ago it was released for what – $500? Never buy Panasonic for more than 60% of price, just wait a little.
Panasonic is taking a beating LX7. Look at how well the pricing for the RX100 is holding up.
At the end of last year Panasonic laughed at the idea of the 1″ ILC and jokingly suggested they could put that sensor size in a LX5 successor. Looks like Sony acted on it and Panasonic is not laughing now. Some of these Japanese companies need a shakeup as technology is now longer the limiting factor now.
Yep, the LX7 is a flop and RX100 has taken all the sunshine in the expensive compact market.
dyem I thought it was the X zoom lens
Euro deals on the way?
I really can’t buy for the going price of 430 Euro that would be too hurtfull.
Yes, a deal like that in Europe is overdue I think. You still have to pay more than 400€ here, which seems to expensive for what the LX7 is offering.
It’s too bad that the LX7 hasn’t caught on more – I bought one for about the same price with an Amazon Warehouse Deal and I really love it.
It’s the perfect small-camera form factor for me, and while the still-photo quality isn’t nearly as good as my GH2, the video is actually pretty admirable. I also love the wide angle lens. I wish it had a larger sensor so I could bump up the ISO more often, but all things considered, it’s really a great travel cam for me.
Regrettable that the LX7 isn’t successful. It has excellent specs, e.g., fast wide lens. That field is obviously crowded. One snafu I see with Panasonic as a company is trying to pander to almost every conceivable niche, with many (too many?) overlapping products and constant new releases. Scale down on the consumer stuff and put some R&D into 4k.
4K video is just another smaller niche.
4k is niche now, maybe not in the future, certainly doesn’t hurt to ponder post-1080 formats. Panny hasn’t been a leader since the HVX200, where they ruled. However, with Canon out of the way, perhaps the GH3 can make some gains. Panasonic needs a refresh, something to get them in the game. But I’m still waiting on the FT4 Oly announcement allegedly right after New Year’s concerning a video camera. If it’s nothing, I’ll buy the GH3.
Looks like this is already gone, or the coupon code is wrong.
The problem for Panasonic in my view is their sensor tech. I would gladly but something like the LX7 had it used a sensor with similar tech to SONY’s.
About 80% of my shots are at base ISO, I need to have the best color depth and dynamic range – The LX7 just doesn’t deliver that. In high ISO the bright lens makes up for much of the RX100 advantage in my view.
You made this post yesterday and I tried it today ( The Next Day ) and it doesn’t work… Are you sure this is the correct code ? Or was it one day only ?
When we can see LX7 replacements ? maybe LX9 with bigger sensor, and new sensor which is cleaner/ not much noise.
To answer the RX 100 and maybe RX 200.
Panasonic need to work harder to produce best cameras to win the market