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On Sunday Olympus will launch a massive discount action! You can see the full deals overview on the images below (Click on them to see the large size image) or on that document at GetOlympus. You save up to $150 on the E-M5 kit, $100 on the E-Pl5 and up to $100 on many MFT lenses!
All today new Olympus deals can be seen at DealsRunner.com.
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Demand more than durability …demand watercolor like photos at anything above ISO200 that has shadows in it.
Hey Yip, are you Yun’s cousin?
Lots of savings but nothing out of the ordinary and most (relating to m43) have been seen before. Wake up Olympus, Fuji & Sony are pricing their gear well below you even with these tepid savings. The EM-5 body should be $799, the new EP5 should be $999 with the 17/1.8 (basically free). Get the customer into the system with a steal/loss leader, don’t try to rob everyone everytime.
If I was getting into a mirrorless system I would be looking long & hard at Fuji. They have some great package deals which Olympus should try to match. I want the 12/2 & 75/1.8 but $100 off each is not going to sway me. Where is the $150/lens deal with up to three lenses? With the decline in the value of the Yen Olympus has plenty of room to offer better savings.
Agree with you about the price.
The body price should be competitive against Fuji X-E1, Sony NEX-6 which are around $800.
(For both E-M5 and E-P5)
Yes, we love the “$150 rebate per lens up to 3 lenses”. Please bring it back.
Fuji currently has $200-300 rebate per lens up to 5 lenses ($1300)
(since that’s all it has 🙂 less the new telephoto zoom)
But Fuji lenses were overpriced even compared to Olympus.
There is an ongoing discussion to split the good parts of Sony (music,films) from the bad parts (everything else that bleeds money). Guess what will happen to the bad part? To Sony lens value? There is a discussion about splitting the good parts of Olympus (Medical) from the bad parts (everything else that bleeds money). Good idea to *demand* rebates. Rebates did not lead to a faster growing market, economy of sales was not pushed with lower prices.
One small note, Olympus medical devision needs part of the R&D that is done by the camera devision, and takes advantage of economics of scale that they couldn’t otherwise.
Olympus never have good deals on lens. They only care about people buying the bodies. None of their deals are just lens alone and they aren’t really good deals when they do have lens deals.
Oh admin…can you repost the picture of the lens prices…I can’t read that…it’s too small and resolution is low
The getolympus link has the original file that you can zoom in on.
Over the last Nov to Jan period Olympus Australia had a 20% cash back on a number of their lenses, including the then new 60mm macro lens. I did very well thankyou on that one with a 10% off RR price from the supplier & then the cash back, I’m pretty happy (but I wish I could have afforded to have bought more lenses on that discount).
$400 for the 60mm macro is a pretty good deal if you want macro (alone, without camera). 40-150 for $150 alone and $100 with a camera is an excellent deal. Have a look how the barely faster (and much, much heavier and slow focusing) 55-200 for Fuji X costs.
Actually, some of the rebates have been in place since June 1 or 2nd (particularly on the tough cameras, which I’m currently thinking about). I imagine it is a normal promotion based on the US pseudo-holiday Father’s day, which is June 16th.
No complaints on the E-PL5 and E-PM2 kit prices. If you already have the last generation of either, just sell off the lens that comes with it and you have an E-PM2 body for around $350 or E-PL5 body for around $450. That’s a very good deal.
I’m surprised the E-M5’s price hasn’t dropped to $850 body-only by now, but they must still be selling with lesser incentives. As for the E-P5, boy did they get greedy and I’m so glad to see they’re now taking a slap-down for it compliments of Sony and Fuji.
They can’t drop the price and save face this soon after it’s intro, but wait until the holidays, I see $750 E-P5 bodies and $850 with VF-4’s or they will simply be unable to compete.
I don’t get how an EVF-less body priced at 350/450 is a good deal.
For the 450 you could buy a Canikon SLR or a NEX or a Pana or an older pen. All of these will come with lenses. Actually an old pen/NEX will even come with two lenses at 450. And regards Canikon and NEX there isn’t even an IQ advantage.
I tested the PL5 in a shop and I liked it but it was just too expensive if you knew what others offered you for the same money. The only thing that makes sense price wise is the OMD and the older PL/PMs imo.
While I agree that Olympus prices are very high, it is not completely relevant to compare with other cameras that are not the same. The cheap DSLRs are big and old designs. They clunk and they are inconvenient. The Fuji mirrorless cameras cannot AF well. Neither can the Sony ones. Both do not have IBIS, nor enough lenses, although they do have other less important advantages.
The E-M5, E-PM2 and E-PL5 are clearly standouts and will not be discounted heavily like some other models from the other brands, including Panasonic. They are selling for more because they are selling fine. That’s how the markets work. Unwanted cameras get more discounts.
Olympus cameras are over priced period! they should be priced 50% higher than their Panasonic counter parts. Like the EP3 is now. 1k for ep5? are you kidding me? I have all three systems matt is talking about. So let me clarify. MFT cameras generally speaking (depending on lenses) all focus faster than nex and fuji cameras, with the exception of fuji x100s. So that has some truth to it. But to say they don’t “focus well” is misleading. they focus just fine but not as fast, that may not be a issue for everyone, bareyly any difference in day light. IBIS? Both Fuji and Sony has Stablizers in some of the lenses instead. And just how much stop can you squeeze out? the small sensor kind of negates the IBIS.
My nex-7 is lighter, with better grip and smaller than my e-m5 not to mention a bigger sensor. Not enough lenses? Check out the fuji line up, with the exception of 18mm. fuji lenses are up a notch compared to all MFT primes. The Olympus 75mm 1.8 is the only reason I’m keeping a MFT around. IQ is near perfect.
“less important advantages”? HA. Fuji and Nex has ZEISS lenses! larger sensor. Better grip, better EVF 2.4m OLED, priced lower. Focus PEAKING!. Olympus got the 75mm 1.8 with useless weather sealing due to the only lenses that is weather sealed is the crap kit. I paid 800 for e-m5 should of been around $600. Funny Matt thinks Oly is doing well in the camera business. They been losing money for years. Might just be a lens maker for Sony in the next few years.
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How is comparing cameras of the same category not relevant? Olympus system cameras are a market different from the other manufacturers markets? Come on…
If you think that cheap cameras are cheap because they aren’t selling, that would mean that lower end Canikons arent selling. Do you seriously believe that? Afaik just this lower end is where a big portion of the revenue comes from.
Mft got class leading AF but that includes Panasonic. The 5 axis IBIS of the OMD is great but the 2 axis IBIS of the lower pens isn’t. I’d rather have the OSS of Sony lenses that reliably give me the 3 stops advantages as advertised (Even though I don’t need stabilization most of the time). IBIS isn’t an advantage anyways, when almost all lenses of the other manufacturers are stabilized.
“I’m surprised the E-M5′s price hasn’t dropped to $850 body-only by now, but they must still be selling with lesser incentives”.
People have said for a long time now that 4/3rds was dead, yet the E-5(now nearly 3 years old, is still selling at the ‘price fixed figure’ of $1699 everywhere. hmmm…
I brought my wife (her birthday) a E-M5 two weeks ago. It cost nearly the same as my E-M5 I brought a year earlier. The E-M5 is holding its price really well. I really don’t expect that with the E-P5.
Is this for Sunday only? Or will this last forever?
Thanks!
Different deals expire on different days. For example, in the current deals the $50 off the TG-2 and TG-830 expire on June 29th, but the $30 off the TG-630 expires on June 8th (Saturday). From the GetOlympus page, it looks like 3 lenses will get discounts on June 9th:
40-150mm $50 mail-in and $50 instant rebate with purchase of camera
$100 instant rebate off of 12mm lens.
$50 instant rebate off of 17mm f/2.8 lens (not the f/1.8 lens)
Is that a such a big deal??
You can find deals better than $1,150 for OM-D E-M5 with 12-50mm lens kit.
Interesting that all the E-P5 deals expire before the E-P5 will be shipping.
off topic, but I gotta say, Olympus has a good graphic design team making those pages. They make we want to go out and buy a camera.