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The GX7 is selling for $449 only by [shoplink 52178 ebay]Adorama on eBay (Click here)[/shoplink]. That’s a new $90 off on the already discounted camera.
Those are the current three Olympus-Panasonic deals listed at Amazon US:
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Olympus lens savings:
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$100 off on the 75mm f/1.8 lens at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto and GetOlympus.
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$100 off on the 9-18mm f/4.0-5.6 lens at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto and GetOlympus.
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Nokton:
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a very nice price for a great camera – I have two of them – wish that was the original price 🙂
so G8 should be around the corner although very few rumors on it –
Everyone expects a 4k video to be included –
I suspect it will have 4k but I think 5 AXIS IBIS should be a must – also a flip LCD similar to GH4 and OMD-EM5 M2 – a Mic in would be nice but I do not expect to see it as it is under $100 0 – seems manufacturers typically do not include Mic in for cameras under $1000 – and if they do the camera does not have 4k and video So So – so no one will buy for video and Mic in will never be used – also I wish it had hybrid focus or at least DFD
I wish they kept the looks and manual controls as is – and of course kept Touch To Focus etc
So for me the main improvement hopefully is in the sensor and IBIS – everything else is nice –
The key to success is also price – it has sell for less then the A7000 from Sony – it should – the A7000 is rumored to have IBIS and 4k – and it has a larger sensor so should cost more – but sadly Panasonic has keep the price on the GX7 higher then the A6000 – makes no sense – just finally now getting to be around same price –
The A6000 has been a top seller in system cameras for a reason – great sensor and good price – although I like the GX7 better the A6000 has an edge in IQ –
If the Sony A7000 also has Touch LCD and Touch Shutter then the GX8 better be cheaper –
4k and 5 axis IBIS is a tough one. The EM5 mkII shows us that even getting 5axis IBIS and 1080 high end video is tough (although it’s video options are greatly improved). Video creates a lot of heat, and It’s really difficult to dissipate heat from a floating sensor, so the video breaks down. It will come. Someone will figure it out, but we probably won’t see it on the GX successor.
Why does everyone assume the 5-axis creates a lot of heat?
Hard to really improve on any of these cameras without an obvious improvement in low light performance. Just like the em5ii, it’s hardly cause to pony up $1000-1300 for a few added features.
I think 4k is a fad now so predict that it will have no IBIS but 4k. I would prefer 5axis and no 4k. The GH4 is the right camera for that. It will be a while before folks get a 4k TVs The gx8 should be foremost a stills camera It will not have mic in so better to focus more on stills
I totally agree. Fuji and Panasonic are working on an organic sensor but according to rumors they are few years off. At least 3 years Panasonic can add hybrid or phase detect to improve focus. As well as use backlit technology like on Sonys 1inch sensor and Samsungs new APS sensor
nice price, must wait and see what the gx8 offers though 😉 realistically I have enough medium sized bodies, more on the lookout for a cheap gm1
There’s a Taiwanese seller on Ebay selling them body-only and new for $340, they’re NTSC which was what I wanted (and what’s used in Taiwan apparently).
Nice shop, they switched it to English before sending it and even tossed in the English manual on a CD, I don’t really need either but it seemed like a pleasant gesture nonetheless. There was some warranty card from the shop too.
Seeing as how there seems to be a healthy GM5 demand, I wouldn’t expect the GM1 to drop much lower than that for now. I’ve also seen it with the 12-32 for $500 on Amazon, I doubt you can find the lens by itself for less than $250.
Always been good value but still feels better made than Sony or Samsung equivalents.
August will be its two year anniversary. I’ve had mine for about a year, and it’s been my favorite m43 camera yet – hopefully we’ll see a successor soon 🙂
Crazy you can get the GX7 + 15mm + 45-150mm for less than the E-M1 body!
I own it and can see holding on to it for at least 5 years. In fact only a remarkable refresh of the E-M1 or GX7 will make me even consider a new MFT camera.
My favorite camera to use (I have an A7r, D800, and G5 too). Seems like a GX8 is around the corner. Can’t wait to see what goodies it has – hopefully full time IBIS – that would be enough for me to take the $$ hit to sell the GX7. Improved focusing with 43 lenses would potentially be enough to keep me from buying an EM1.
Just wonder when the GX8 will hit the shelves – hopefully well before summer.
A great camera sinking to its natural market price. Olympus should take note.
For that matter, consumers should take note: 18 months is the new buy by date for Panasonic.
Minor feature upgrades only in a GX8; micro 4/3 is now into its fourth year without any real world measurable improvements in final image quality.
I can tell you from real-world, first-hand experience that there have been image quality improvements.
My first M4/3 camera was a GH2, next a GX1 and a GX7. The GX7’s image quality is noticeably better than the others. Shooting at ISO i600 is better than ISO 800 on the GH2/GX1.
Personally, I’d love to see the multi-aspect ratio sensor make a return.
Well, what I said is that the GX7 is great, but in the entire M43 world we haven’t seen consistent real world improvement in image quality in over 3 years, and I’ll stand by that.
Online “reviewers” of course have to give consumers a reason to click through their website to make a purchase, so pretend to find at the limits some modicum of superiority for follow on models. It’s pixel peeping and numbers games, my comment was on real world improvements, not just juicing the jpg processor for one thing at the expense of another and targetting ‘reveiwers.’
Big improvements in dynamic range. Except in very, very low light where you’re dealing with shot noise floors, I find the luminance noise on M4/3 (RAW files) reasonably pleasant up to ISO 3200 or noise. It looks better before it gets blotched up by noise reduction, in my opinion.
“Minor feature upgrades only in a GX8”
As if you would know.
Troll.
To Jacques, “Troll” means anybody who dares hold a different opinion.
But maybe I’m wrong. Please set me straight. What are the “upgrades?”
No, “troll” means “a person who makes a deliberately offensive or provocative online posting.” Claiming knowledge of a GX8’s features is provocative, and claiming they’ll all be “minor” is, if not offensive, at least inflammatory bashing. Your post is nothing but negative speculation, and you are behaving like a troll.
Now that we’ve identified your behavior, we can appropriately ignore you.
Bye.
Nice camera with some serious flaws. Let’s hope they are fixed in the GX8
– EVF, rainbow effect, not stabilised
– IBIS, poor performance, not stabilising video
– no mike in
– no tilt screen
And for me to buy another new M43 camera, it MUST have a new sensor with improved IQ.
It has a tilt screen. As to your other points, if you missed the tilt screen, I don’t think its even worth trying to argue with you.
Actually, there are other points are very good.
New sensor should also have Phase Detection AF!
The EVF only effects a small set of users. For most users, like myself, it’s a non-issue.
IBIS not working in video is an annoyance, but it’s quite effective, at least on par with Oly’s 3-axis.
The lack of a mike jack IS a bummer. Although, I’d want a headphone jack, too, or at least a combo jack, like an iPhone, iPad, or MacBook Pro.
The screen tilts. You must have missed that. Maybe you’re thinking fully articulated. I prefer those, too. Tilty is better than fixie.
EVF doesn’t have any rainbow effect for me. At least not one that I’ve noticed.
IBIS works well for stills (50mm is stable down to usable down to 1/15s, for instance). Obviously a bummer that it doesn’t work for video.
Don’t really do video where I need to capture high quality audio, so that’s no biggie for me.
Likewise, screen does tilt but not articulate.
Video with mega OIS is supurb. I had serious 5-axis envy until I put the kit and 45-150 to work. Stabilization is so natural and the video runs circles around the competition. For stills 2 axis is good.
Remember IS doesn’t do anything for moving subjects, which is the cause of 99% of my blur. Fast lenses baby.
Only a small minority of people see the rainbow. The EVF IS stabilized with OIS lenses. Three stops is not “poor” performance for IBIS. Video IS stabilized with OIS. The screen does tilt.
I give your trolling effort only a C-.
I wonder when the new Olympus EM2 will be announced!?
Just tried to purchase 3 of them to use for multicam, but even though their listing states shipping to Canada is available, they don’t ship to Canada.
Too bad, I was looking forward to grabbing these!
Sometimes you can ask the seller to include Canada and they will. Often they take a default selection for shipping. Often shipping is same
Auction was posted around 8AM pacific time and only 5 sold so far. It’ll probably pick up later because there have been quite a few auctions for used GX7s and they usually go for somewhere around $450.
It’ll be interesting to see if there is a GX8 released sometime soon. Most of the stores online no longer even sell the GX7 without the lens (B&H, Amazon and I thought Adorama but now they have this). I would be surprised if the price of a GX7 pushed much lower than this even with a GX8 release. On eBay the old M5 still goes for around $450 and that came out before the GX7 and doesn’t have focus peaking.
All M43 cameras have essentially the same IQ, which has stayed at the save level since the E-M5 was released 3 years ago. Competitors have caught up and surpassed this, why these cameras have to be dumped.
Fanboys will no doubt come and depends this, same as they did 4 years ago if anybody dared to criticise the limited IQ of M43 cameras then, when their 12MP also stayed at the same level for years and way too long.
No new sensor, no buy.
Canon has an even worst path when it comes to enthusiast market.
They’re all also substantially less than a canon 7d mk2 (less than 30% the cost in the case of GX7), while half to 1/3 the size, twice the lens selection and 95-99% the IQ depending on the application.
How does that invalidate anything Matt just said?
Sans Sony, every maker is rebranding the same sensors. Canon is one of the worst offenders. Fuji too. Matt mentions competitors working to the contrary, just making him aware that’s not typically so.
The fact that there is still a market for M43 pretty much invalidates everything Matt said going back 4 years.
Fanboys? Listen to yourself. Is this the only way you can feel good about yourself?
I guess.
Image quality doesn’t seem to be the limiting factor with most system cameras these days. Nor, many would argue, has it been for a while.
I didn’t upgrade my GX1 to a GX7 because I wanted a significantly better image quality (though the dynamic range boost is nice), but because I wanted better handling and features. And in that respect, I found the GX7 superior to its competition. IQ or not.
Similarly, you can also talk about how Canon and Fuji have stagnated in terms of sensors, neither of whom produces noticeably better output from their APS-C sensors than M4/3. But people like them, mostly because of handling (or lens selection, or…).
If all anyone cared about was sensors, people would only use Sony and Nikon. Turns out that’s not the case.
A M4/3 owner just claimed GH4 sensor gets usable ISO 25600, which is almost as good as FF. The word Fanboy isn’t even enough to describe the silly loyalty.
No! Say me where Olympus trip digital?
All your sensor are belong to us.
GX8 4k Recording can change lenses, mini gh-4, Pricetag? 700,-
so what?
I am not a fanboy i am a fan of my MONY-BAG = lower price much of the bigger one..
taht is the truth..if this lite thing goes with more than 700,- i will nOT BUY IT and so on.
and it would eb fine with 8 megpixxi sensor… hm?
? GX8 with the awesome new Panasonic sensor from the soon to be announced successor to the AF101 pro video camera. 16 stops DR, clean to 12800 iso, 18Mp. Game changer.
*Rumored GX8 😉
… of course 😉
Hopefully we’ll know more about this (rumored) sensor after the April NAB show
Man, just bought one not long ago for 540. On Adorama’s own website it’s more expensive. Wonder why?
Oh well. Besides, may end up getting nothing if one always waits for a better deal or the better model.