Hurry up! The Panasonic 14mm f/2.5 Lens is in Stock at Amazon (Click here)
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Not sure what to think of this lens. I like the size but the quality doesn’t seem to match the price.
The 20mm is same price but sooooo much better. I would maybe consider it for $200 but meanwhile I’ll stick with the 7-14 for that focal range. Waiting on a wider/better quality prime. My prediction is these will start steadily showing up on ebay from people who buy the GF2 package.
It seems overpriced for the spec and performance to me too, the Amazon price here in the UK is about £369 which is around £150 too much to justify it to me, if it is not as fast or as good optically as the 20mm then it has to be cheaper.
But it does take practical filters which is a must for me on a wide angle lens, that and the fact that the 7-14mm f4 is about 35-40% overpriced for the spec is the only reason that I haven’t got that instead, I hope Panasonic either sort the prices or bring out a higher quality, (wider) prime lens, its probably the next lens purchase for most owners of GF and Pen series cameras.
I called Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto. The phone representatives at Adorama and BHphoto said they were expecting delivery in December. The Amazon representative was unsure.
I’m pretty sure Amazon didn’t check with Panasonic about the shipments. My order still claims today as a delivery date but the order hasn’t even shipped yet. I called them and they said it would ship today and deliver today. My interpretation is that they have no clue and don’t care. I will stand shamefully corrected if they indeed magically get it to me by the end of today.
Are you sure they said ship today? Double check that. If you check your order it should say that it will ship today and be delivered tomorrow. They have said all along that the GH2 and 14mm pancake will ship on 11/22/10. They have never said that it will ship before that date and I am not aware of any same day shipping that they have. You will probably get it tomorrow though.
Yup, I’m looking at the order screen again right now, which says Delivery Estimate Nov 22. I’d post a screen shot if I could. Admitted, this only an estimate. However they told me on the phone it would ship and deliver today.
Reassuring to hear from you that it will ship today thought. Thanks! Are you in the same situation?
Interesting. I would say that it is unlikely to get to you today. However, there is a good chance it will make it to you by Thanksgiving. I am not in the exact same boat. My original order placed on the day it was announced was canceled because it was for the Grey one. Now I had to get at the back of the line and mine is not supposed to ship until this Friday. I do have other pre-orders in though. Hopefully, something will come through in the next few days.
Just spoke to an Amazon US Rep re: my GH2 and 100-300 preorder (placed on Sep 22nd) and he said that they have it at their distributors and the items will ship between Nov 29th and Dec 27th. I am assuming they will start shipping by Nov 29th.
This just proves that they didn’t care to give me accurate information…glad you got a more honest/more high up guy on the phone…I’d cancel my order if I wouldn’t need the camera very soon.
It is interesting though that they don’t ship them if they already have them at their distributors. Did he tell you why that is?
My pre-order at a local store still hasn’t arrived, it had been scheduled to get to them on the 16th. I suspect that we won’t have it till December.
I need wider. A prime, 10 or 11mm.
The 14mm now is $420 on Amazon. Capitalism at its finest!
Damn 🙁
People seem to think the 28mm is worse quality than the 20mm. I have yet to see a proper review that concludes this. The 20mm is larger aperture but this is because it is not such a wide angle. The 14mm is smaller and lighter and much faster focusing. I would not write it off -yet.
I also disagree that the 7-14mm is 35% overpriced. It offers top quality performance similar to the best 14mm WA zooms from nikon/oly/canon in the smallest & lightest package by a mile. Comparing it with the oly mft9-18 is like apples and pears -the extra 2mm offers a different kind of photography and costs a lot to engineer. In fact the lens stretches to 12.5mm equivalent if you use the 16:9 ratio on the gh1/2. The 9-18 is a good lens- just not comparable.
Samy’s just said Panasonic is telling them 2-3 weeks now. Looks like the US GH2 could also be delayed as well as the European ones.
Well, they better not wait until the Sony NEX-7 is announced or more rumors about it trickle in…
And they better not wait until the EP2 is announced or we hear more about it…
That and/or the NEX-7 could lead to many of these pre-orders being cancelled…
I called Adorama twice, once to customer service and once to sales and got the equivalent of “I don’t know and I’m not going to make an effort to find out” from both reps about the GH2. I called Unique Photo (in New Jersey) and their representative was much more straightforward and said there hadn’t been an update to the entries for each kit since they were first set up in their system in October. If I don’t hear or read something more definitive overnight then tomorrow I’m call blasting Adorama, B&H, Amazon, Henry’s (Canada) and J&R until I get a straight answer. Guess I won’t have to call Samy’s…
This is really frustrating. The camera is OUT in Japan and somehow it has taken Panasonic almost a month to get them anywhere outside of Japan (except into the hands of reviewers and the small stack they had at that photo expo in Denmark). They keep the customers in the dark, they keep the retailers in the dark or worse they give retailers WRONG information and it pisses off their customers!
Well, here’s my guess as to why they’re keeping us in the dark: because they know if they tell us about the several week delay they risk cancellations. If they tell us in a week that it’s coming “around mid December”, more might not keep their orders. Only Sony or Oly making announcements could ruin this strategy…
Correction: “If they tell us in a week that it’s coming “around mid December”…, more might keep their orders”, not “not keep”.
Joe
All previous calls by our purchasing department to the Panasonic rep have been met with non-committed responses. However, I have asked the purchasing department to ask again today.
If you can drop me a quick email reminding me of this posting, when there is any update I will let you know.
Helen Oster
Adorama Camera Customer Service Ambassador
HelenO@adorama.com
Wow Helen, thank you for reaching out. I think this is the most direct/public contact any of us have had regarding the delay. I assumed the fault was on Panasonic for being unclear to retailers. I’ll be sure to get in touch with you, and thanks again.
Just putting this out here for our consideration…;-)
http://www.sonyalpharumors.com/sr4-nex-7-coming-early-2011-march/
http://www.sonyalpharumors.com/sr5-small-nex-7-update/
I have an update for you; we have just been told to expect a shipment during the first half of December
I hope this helps
Helen Oster
Adorama Camera Customer Service Ambassador
HelenO@adorama.com
Are these actually made in Japan or China like everything else? If China, then there is no reason not be be able to provide timely quantities worldwide. Just look at Apple and Foxcom.
If these are actually assembled in Japan, they may not be able to produce enough units to supple an initial order to distributors. It doesn’t make sense to deliver 1,000 units if the distributor is expecting 25,000. They just wait until they have a sufficient quantity to satisfy a distributor.
I never placed a pre-order. I’m expecting some hardware glitches. I’ll wait for the bugs to be worked out, and supplies to become more available.
Panasonic claimed they would build 5,000/month.
If mine isn’t here by next week I’ll have to buy something else, so my GH2 will become available to somebody else.
haha.. I think the people here at the rumors sites are the most impatient I can think of. If this is the camera or lens you really want, why does a week or three matter?
Because some of us need it for work under time-sensitive contracts.
Maybe the reason amazon reps aren’t receptive because they get fifty calls a day asking if they know when a lens is coming out when all you really have to do is a quick google search to figure it out. Perhaps they are on sales goals too and after you ask when it is coming and they tell you they don’t know they tell you politely they can preorder it for you but you say no thanks you just want to know when it comes out and then they have 7 other lines ringing to answer and a mortgage to pay and kids to feed and they just want to sell something. Maybe I’m wrong and they are just young kids trying to make a buck until they figure out what they want to do with their life and really just don’t care. I really don’t work there, honest, but I have worked in commissioned camera sales and I can tell you it isn’t glamorous or fun. Give ’em a break.