Some GX1 kits are now officially discontinued. An example is the GX1 with normal 14-42mm lens that is not even sold by Amazon anymore (Click here to see) and marked as discontinued at BHphoto (Click here).
The GX1 with X kit lens sells for $489 at Amazon (Click here) which means that if you count away the price for the lens you pay $180 only for the GX1 body.
More Panasonic deals:
GF3 with 14-42mm lens for $349 at Amazon (Click here).
GF5 with 14-42mm lens for $399 at Amazon (Click here).
And the discounted G5 is the most sold mirrorless camera at Amazon (ranking here).
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Is the powerzoom lens worth $300? It seems like size is its only advantage. Personally, I wouldn’t pay over $200 if that.
Size, better coating, motorized Zoom and Power OIS.
what about image quality?
for video, continuous auto-focus better than manual zoom (^_^)
Admin, is there a chance that one panny announcement in early april is for g7 +gf7 and the other one in early may is for the gx2?
Admin is there a chance that one panny announcement is for the g7 + gf7 and the other one in early may for the gx2?
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yep. Could be. I am checking this.
g7 is undefined,it will be new gf and new line lumix cam.
Call me a pessimist, but now that we know the EP-5 won’T have a viewfinder, I have little hope the GX2 will have one.
Call me an optimist 😉 but with all the viewfinder examples in mirrorless compact size (NEX, Samsung, Fuji, Nikon…) around AND with the direct competition Olympus OUT, it would be a huge advantage to have, and a silly mistake not to have a viewfinder on the GX2.
Another point would be that, unlinke the GF series, the GX is clearly not the “change your cam every year” kinda type. It is meant to last for at least 2-3 years on the market, and to firmly stay there (instead and beyond a GX1) with the actual sensor even in 24 months or so, it HAS to offer something as a speciality within the compact cam size m4/3 fraction… Don´t you agree?
Nothing makes sense as far as Olypan and rangefinder style cameras go. If I was running the Corps, heads would have rolled three years ago, for not having one to market ahead of Sony. Now there is Fuji eating up part of the market share, that doubtfully will ever be recovered. Huge, I mean huge mistakes were made in this regard. I really don’t see how corporate executives can keep their jobs with blunders like this. I guess Japan just doesn’t have smart enough people to do the job.
I agree, maybe they should look to Korea, China, or even Mexico, to try and find some intelligent people for management.
Something is certainly not right with the current strategy. Any corporation, that would alienate something like 75% of it’s customer base, by producing silver only lenses, after making only black lenses through it’s history is puzzling. I think there may be something to this Yakuza take over rumor, after all, as it seems there is someone with probably less than a high school diploma running the show at Olympus now.
Surely it’s the lens from that kit which is discontinued, not the body? Panasonic have announced a new smaller 14-42 kit lens. I doubt they will keep the old one about for long.
Admin, what other kits are discontinued? I thought there were only two GX1 kits, one with the normal 14-42 and one with the 14-42 Power Zoom, yet you write in plural.
Maybe GX1 with the new 14-42 II…
I think all Panolympus seems to be doing at the moment is redesigning kit lens after kit lens… maybe time for some fast telephoto/ultrawide primes? or semi-fast zooms (f2.8-4)?