There is a brand new deal on the G5 with 14-42mm lens. You can have it for $399 at Amazon US (Click here). And don’t forget that there is also a 4% reward (Click here to read the details).
There is a brand new deal on the G5 with 14-42mm lens. You can have it for $399 at Amazon US (Click here). And don’t forget that there is also a 4% reward (Click here to read the details).
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But the lack of 24p, and Full manual controls in video….Sorry
Panasonic G5 with kit lens for $399 at Amazon!!!
Yeah, amazing why it is so expensive? It has the sensor from the 2-year-old GH2. $299 would be more reasonable.
This is a great price for what you get with this camera. What can you get for $400 brand new that’s better?
No kidding, Leica S2’s sensor is dated already. Should it sell for dirt cheap too?
By that amazing logic the nikon d3 should be 199$
I’ve bought my G3 for $249 when G5 was launched. And now there is G6, so I think G5 will go the way of G3 sooner or later. And after that G6 as well…
I own a G5. Great camera. This is a steal.
Actually, after shooting daily with the GH2 for a good two years, I can safely say that the G5 sensor is as much better than the GH2 sensor, as the GH2 was than the GF1 sensor, so stick that in your pipe and smoke it a bit. The G5 sensor is all anyone will need, for many years to come, it’s that good.
Don’t be silly, G5 sensor IS the Gh2 sensor, but with the G5 you can’t shot at 24p and you can’t have the full manual control in video mode.
It’s the same sensor, pushed by a better Engine. I’m sure that’s what the G6 is, with even a slightly better engine.
So what? Have you ever shot any stills with these cameras? Of course you haven’t. The G5 holds its own nicely against the GH2, even though its sensor is not multi-aspect. I have the cameras.
Only the GH3 in the Panasonic bodies has a better sensor.
Right now with the GX1 bodies being sold for $249, it is really a tossup between the G5 and GX1 for best budget MFT camera.
“Only the GH3 in the Panasonic bodies has a better sensor.”
Yup. The G5 is a great camera if you’re only looking in the Panasonic range but look at the competition and just about everything is better if you’re pushing the IQ to the limit.
It’s probably a good price though but personally I wouldn’t be tempted if it cost £5. The competition have moved on and the bar has been raised out of reach of the G5.
Really? By leaps and bounds? And at what price? Please give me a camera out there in MFT that’s a better value than the G5 and the GX1?
And please don’t go there with sensors. It’s MFT. People who pixel peep should feel stupid and the GH2 sensor is that good.
At that price, it’s not a steal, it’s Highway Robbery!
Most of you yahoos on this forum are such idiots. First off, you don’t own any of these cameras, second, you’ve never tried any of them, and, third, you will never buy them. You are clueless. Yet you go on time after time and year after year badmouthing the cameras and the sensors. Morons.
If you are any good at photogrpahy (and I seriously doubt it) you can get marvelous photos out of the GX1 and G5, and their “old” “outmoded” sensors. And why do I know? Because I own them along with the GH2, E-M5, E-P2, etc.
Good response guy. I have a panasonic fz 30 that produces very nice photos. It is not far under the newer models of panasonic. Way ahead of its time. Panasonic knows what they are doing and the results of still images are as good as high end cameras. G5 is a great camera. It handles perfectly.and having the option to use olympus glass is a good thing.I know a pro that uses olympus for her busness. She has beautiful results. And from what I can see that pan and oly and leica seem to bee very much alike in image quality.
G5 is much better / versatile in all respects: Better sensor, viewfinder, articulated screen …
Another member of G series suffering a deep price cut since GX1 . The G5 although not really stand up in IQ compared with OMD but it doesn’t deserved such huge price drop .
I really have to look into this if I want to get another Pana camera , at least Oly is much much better in term of values .
Everyone knows Olympus can’t drop the price on their cameras because they can’t Afford to. They’re warehouses are full of unsold product. If they were able to, the price of even their Four Thirds cameras woul be much cheaper.
http://www.amazon.com/Olympus-E-5-12-3MP-Digital-Body/dp/B0042X9MNM/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1370739263&sr=1-1&keywords=olympus+e5
A camera that debut in 2010 is still $1699.99. That’s hilarious.
That is because it is not old stock. It is still current and reflects cost to build. But this may well be the end of them.
Not for Yun for YUN,PLEASE.
that is a pretty amazing price – we’ve not seen the drop (this far) in the UK (YET!?)
G6 entry price body only is £549 (already a great price when you seen OMD is now at its lowest of £795)
G5 is still £399 body only
I’d be really pleased to see the G5 at £299 – I’d be keen to have one and leave it in the studio.
Even though the G6 sensor is OLD – its a fine sensor and I’ll be taking a good look at it when its avaialble … I just hope it has an viewfinder that is as different as different can be from the curved our of focus thing they put accidentally put in the GH3 (embarrassingly bad EVF, I’m shocked that none of the reviews I’ve read have even mentioned it, which show that they are perhaps reviewing a spec sheet rather than a physical camera!)
If the G5 is really as good as some of you think, why is nobody buying it (why its price keeps dropping and even at $399 is not selling? Denial is useless. It is the old GH2 sensor. The only difference is, you don’t get the multi-aspect ratio. I think Panasonic should just donate all the G5 that nobody wants to some 3rd world country.
I live in a Third World country … so, please, oh, please, let us have ’em unwanted G5’s!
Don’t be an idiot Matt. The price is dropping because it’s a discontinued model, being replaced by the G6.
The same happened to the Canon T3i when the T4i came out, and the T4i when the T5i came out, the Nikon D3100 when the D3200 came out, etc.
People who no little about specific things should not post about those things on the internet.
Me no eat. Me no sleep. Me no work. Me want G5. G5 is best. Donate G5 to charity. Think of the poor. G5 is good.