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Olympus launched a new campagn to get rid of the older (but still very good) PEN models:
You save $100 on the E-PL3 at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
You save $50 on the E-PM1 at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
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I quite hate Olympus marketing! Such price drops on NEW products in ONE year makes selling used equipment borderline to giveaway.
Introduction of the replacements already did that, such price-drops are just a result of that, getting rid of old stock.
Don’t buy products with a 1 year life-cycle if you want to prevent running into this (tho, that will just change the timeframe to 2 or 3 or whatever years).
How about not making so many products with 1 year life-cycle, so they won’t need to fire-sale them?
Well, if they get enough people to go for a yearly replacement cycle, that might be more profitable. Olympus isn’t the only company doing this, rather it is the norm for most consumer products so this seems to work.
Flipside of the coin is that as a consumer, nothing forces you to follow their 1 year replacement cycle other then your own desire to have an improved product.
If you don’t ‘need’ the latest and greatest right now then what donthasslethehoff suggests works very well and saves a lot of money. If you do however want the latest and greatest, then yearly release cycles mean you’ll get this earlier, but at a premium.
Its your choice 🙂
I agree with you. But in this particular case, EPL3->EPL5 we are actually upgrading from 4 years old Panasonic sensor 🙂
That surely makes the urge to upgrade bigger, but, its still your choice 🙂
If the replacement cycle had been 3 years instead, and you’d have bought an E-PL1 just a year ago, you’d probably have payed a little bit less for it, but would now be facing the same issue still.
The flipside is that the improvements made in the latest generation didn’t make your current camera any less good then it was before.
I guess were at a point where early adopters are for the most part regular consumers. Buy a 1 generation old camera and save!!
I don’t see why regular updates should be a problem. As the poster above said ‘it is only your own desire’ that makes you buy the latest.
For me. I’ve been happy with my E-P1 from the start and am only now after 3 years thinking of upgrading. I like the look of the OMD. I’ll probably wait a year then buy it at a significantly reduced price. It’ll be a lovely upgrade for me.
This is one time that I will wait for a price drop in the new E-PL5 as the difference in sensor makes a difference. Also heard from one of the videos at Photokina, Olympus will off for free the body cap lens for the first couple months for people that buy the E-PL5/E-PM2.