The Panasonic GH3 price dropped down to $848 via Uniquephoto (Click here). As I told you in these days we can be pretty sure there will be a new GH 4K camera within the next couple of months. But it will NOT replace the GH3. The new GH will be more expensive! So if you want the GH3 grab it. Do not wait for the 4K Gh unless you really need the 4k and you have the money for it:)
P.S.: No real surprise: E-M1 still selling well even after Christmas time according to Amazon US mirrorless ranking (list here).
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Comment on EM1 is still selling well after Xmas as 2nd on Amazon.
This needs to be taken in perspective as no m4/3 model is listed among the top 100 camera models sold in the USA at present. Just take a look under DSLRphoto.com
As of now, E-M1 is fourth, Panasonic GX7 is Third. Sony is king in the U.S. mirrorless cameras.
MrALLCRAP – We don’t care what you think. Peddle your trolling BS somewhere else.
Now ,now CC what kid of person would go trolling in a forum for cameras he hates , ooops that would be you in the SAR forum. The old adage “if you can’t take it don’t give it “seems to fit .
Maybe a 4k replacement for the AF100 too?
Also a bit of Panny news you might of missed http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-25/panasonic-debt-goes-to-first-from-worst-on-revamp-japan-credit.html
I think you’re full of crap. 7 out of the Top 20 CSCs listed on Amazon are m43 cameras. Amazon is about as close to a sales survey rank as you can get, their volume drawfs that of the next closest rival.
The whole mirrorless market is very small in the USA { single figure market share}placing too much emphasis on such a small representation of numbers is of debatable value.
Even if 7 out of 20 was representative of broader sales.That would give mFT only 35% of the pretty diminutive mirrorless market. According to CIPA up till the 1st of November 2013 316,948 mirrorless cameras have been shipped to the USA .
The 35% would represent 110,000 mFT cameras compared to 3 million + DSLR .To make matters worse the USA mirrorless market is rapidly declining with sales for the first 10 months of this year being only 53% of the sales for the same period last year. Though DSLR sales are also down in the USA they managed to sell 87% of what they did last year. Using these numbers mFT has 3.3% of the interchangeable lens market shared between Olympus an Panasonic.
The real DATA for anyone interested:
http://www.cipa.jp/stats/documents/e/d-201310_e.pdf
If you look at the wider “all digital cameras list” including DSLR,compact cameras along with all mirrorless. There are no mirroeless models in the top 70 and only 2 in the top 100 selling cameras. So the actual per unit volume of mirrorelss cameras could be tiny.
http://www.amazon.com/Digital-Cameras-Photo/b/ref=amb_link_358884302_23?ie=UTF8&node=281052&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=merchandised-search-leftnav&pf_rd_r=0RKCT6V0127ECHSZRQTK&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1657444542&pf_rd_i=502394
Tron, since you know, what is Amazon’s percentage of all US camera sales? Secondly, who has audited Amazon’s numbers it posts in an effort to get consumers to buy things from them? Thank you.