Between today and September 20 Olympus will offer an additional $100 discount on the Silver E-M1. It now matches the price of th Black version. The discount is already showing up at Amazon and GetOlympus. I think Adorama and Bhphoto will catch up soon. Those of you who preordered the camera yesterday (with the $1,399 price) should ask for the $100 discount.
If you ask me the price of the Silver E-M1 should have been the same as of the Black version right from the very first day.
Panasonic preorders:
LX100 at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto. Europe at WexUK.
GM5 at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto. Europe at WexUK.
GM5 in red at Adorama.
35-100mm at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto.
Olympus preorders:
Silver E-M1 body at Amazon, Adorama, Bhphoto, GetOlympus. In Europe at Wex UK.
40-150mm f/2.8 PRO lens at Amazon, Adorama, Bhphoto, GetOlympus. In Europe at Wex UK.
LH-76 lens hood at Adorama, Bhphoto, GetOlympus.
MC-14 1.4x teleconverter at Amazon, Adorama, Bhphoto, GetOlympus.
PRF-ZD62 Z protection filter at Adorama, Bhphoto, GetOlympus.
PRF-ZD72 Z protection filter at Adorama, Bhphoto, GetOlympus.
General links to all new Olympus stuff at Adorama.
ALL new stuff announced at Photokina at Amazon.
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I will be surprised only when they release better video specs in a firmware.
They still have time to correct their mistake.
So Olympus is going to charge more for the silver version than the black for the EM1, but previously they charged more for the black 12mm than the silver?
And in both cases, the products were identical?
No good, Oly. Not good at all.
They are the same price on GetOlympus.
According to this post, that’s only until Sept 20.
But the silver. It’s flashy and it goes with my silver suburban. If the other soccer moms see me without my flashy camera they won’t think my minivan is actually packed with soccer balls and snickers bars for the kids. Can’t be having that.
EM1 firmware update just released. Didn’t see 4K
Maybe that’s what you get for the extra hundred dollars in the silver version. 😉
In the words of Snopp Dog…Olympus, you need to drop it like it’s hot.
Silver EM-1 makes me totally orgasmic! LOL! What is Oly thinking? Next yr I bet there’ll be a gold ver of the same thing with 4k video 😀
I wouldn’t call a $100 rebate a “drop in price”…
probably because they realized that it is but-fugly. really. I own a E-M5 silver and this thing here makes me cry – especially the grip with SD slot or whatever that is from the side makes it look like a cheap DSLR from the late 90ties
Yep. An already not very pretty camera now is “mutton dressed as lamb”. Not that it will work any worse!
I will be waiting for the E-M2, or switching to another system altogether. Loved the image quality and handy handsomeness of MFT when it came out, evolved as a photographer, then bought an E-M5 and then realized that it’s size and weight calls for a second camera, bought a pentax-mx, unhappy about size and image quality bought an panasonic lumix lf-1. Loved size and Handling but still unhappy bout image quality. Testing a Ricoh GR (pretty ugly too btw) and a Sigma DP2 Merill now. While my Oly E-M5 sits at home and waits to see if I still care about it and the 5 lenses I own after all the small camera search is blown over – ach! – live as a gearhead….
Time for a graphite edition then.