43rumors reader Jonas just made me notice that the GF1 is back im stock after a couple of years 🙂 You can find it with the 14-42mm kit lens for a crazy $1099 at Amazon (Click here). That camera made history and I am sure some will buy it at that price! And of course it also became famous couple with the 20mm lens that is still the most sold mirrorless product at Amazon (Click here to see the ranking).
Yep, history never forgets what did matter 🙂
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My local photo dealer in Amsterdam has a few left at €250.
thats what its worth now, the amazon prices are ridiculous. nice as a backup body though.
I am in Amsterdam right now and I have a spare one…
Give me the address of the shop please Tulio.
Solleveld at Amstelveenseweg 214
LOL!!!! WHOA..hefty premium…so funny!
Yeah, very funny. Get a GX1 body for $300 from B&H.
Does it come in silver?
I didn’t check. I wanted black to match my lenses. 😉
Anyone who buys at that price is crazy.
One of my local stores cleared out their GF1 stock with either the 14-45 and 20mm kit-lenses for under $400 about a year ago (January 2012). Don’t think there’s any left now. But you never know, there could be GF1 kits BNIB in some warehouses and retail storerooms somewhere in the world still today.
A good nostalgic collectors’ item, but not worth that much in realistic monetary terms. The 14-45 can be bought new for under $300, the 20 pancake new for under $400. The GF1 body (excepting some emotional value that could warrant a “high” resale price) is worth very little. Since the GX1 (apart from removing the drive mode switch next to the top mode dial) is a better camera overall. And even the GX1 body can be bought now for under $300 BNIB from US retailers.
Nevertheless, the GF1 was a great camera package, especially at the discounted prices. If Panasonic had integrated an EVF in a successor model and continued bundling the camera with quality primes and zooms instead of slow, low quality kit zooms, the GF/GX line would have been one of the standout mirrorless ILCs today. Let’s hope the GX2 can be a standout product and not another me-too run of the mill one as we’re so used to using.
“If Panasonic had integrated an EVF in a successor model and continued bundling the camera with quality primes and zooms instead of slow, low quality kit zooms, the GF/GX line would have been one of the standout mirrorless ILCs today”
I thnk you are on the mark with that comment!
funny, i just read a nostalgia review of the gf 1 in this months what digital camera magazine, today!
The GF1 is undoubtly a hero in it’s era & I just missed out that moment . But with that high price tag for a discontinued model , I doubt someone will invest on it .
The GX1 is a true successor of it but it just overshadow
by today’s very competitive digital age generation .
WOW!
It is undoubtedly a great little camera, but I always felt the 20mm kit lens was what made it oh so popular. In my mind the E-P1 was a much nicer camera, then and now.
Still have mine in like new condition with the Asashi grip. For some reason, I can’t make myself put it up on Amazon or Ebay.
I feel much the same I am a long time NIkon user currently D800 and had the GH2 and now a couple of GH3 bodies for mFT but I have a real fondness for my GF1 it goes with me everywhere along with the 20mm . The size & quality of this set up is what got me interested in mFT I originally got the GF1 with the 14-45 which remains a great kit lens. Due to the camera always being with me I have caught several unexpected moments with it. I have occasionally thought I should upgrade my little camera then I think nope lol I will probably have it till it wears out.
Jim
*Correction* It comes with the 14-45. It was never offered as a kit with the 14-42. I still have mine even though I doubt it will get much use anymore. Mine came gently used for the price of the 20mm lens new. Good deal at the time.
Mine’s 2.5 years old, been through thick and thin, fallen into gravel, in the rain, snow, mud, or rolling around at the bottom of the backpack. Never any problems. Just last weekend we were skiing and I could keep it in my neck. Even when it gets cold, the big battery never cops out. I keep it with just the 20 mm and B+W UV filter always attached, always on. No lens cap, it’s fast to shoot like that. It’s a tough classic. The paint’s slightly chipped from places. It just adds character. Metal and built in Japan.
“You can find it with the 14-42mm kit lens for a crazy $1099 at Amazon”
Some retailers refuse to sell below MSRP. That’s why when an item reaching final EOL, its price goes up: not because sellers set high price, but because other sellers, who had lower price, have already sold out. Seen that effect many many times.
A great camera. It felt quality in the hands. I have some great memories of the times when i had it. When paired with the 20mm, it rendered beautiful images, with an organic feeling, i can’t explain it, but i can certainly see it. The GH2 i had later on was better on high iso, but lacked that magic. Provided you stayed under ISO 800, it was an excellent carry always camera.
Some pics taken with this camera, if anyone is interested in checking them:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nicolasraddatz/tags/panasonicdmcgf1/
great shots Nico!
Thanks Uli!
I got mine nearly 2 years ago for 100€, and I’m very happy with it
I’ve shot most of my istanbul street photography candids with a GF-1 fitted with the 20mm:
istanbulcandids.com
Ouch, hasn’t come out as a hyperlink, let’s try again:
http://istanbulcandids.com
Looks like Constantinople…
Wow, I’m surprised you used a GF1 for such “in your face” candids. I always thought the shutter sound was a bit too much – it certainly sounded like a much bigger camera, even louder than some DSLRs.
U$S 500
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Panasonic-LUMIX-DMC-GF1K-12-1-MP-Digital-Camera-Black-Kit-w-ASPH-14-45mm-/221198597081?pt=Digital_Cameras&hash=item338076bbd9
It’s not Amazon, but some random 3rd party seller. Never heard of this store.
But these crazy prices are targeted at companies. Those who lose a camera and need an exact replacement and only have a list of sellers to buy from.
Fond memories here as well! I had the GF1 + 20mm f1.7 with me in Damascus, back in 2011, right about when the war was starting. Some of the pictures are online if anybody is interested: http://weitnahbei.de/travels/syria2011/
Awesome photos, Jonathan
Thanks, glad you like them!
It’s sad how things have developed in Syria. It might be a few years before it is practical to visit the country again. Last autumn, I attended a talk on restauration of old Damascene houses where the lecturer was close to tears when asked what she thought might be happening to her efforts now. And that was only about houses, not the people who live in them. Every time I look at those pictures I wonder if these people will make it through the war.
(Some of the shots are not from Damascus by the way, but taken during a weekend trip to Beirut)
Crazy bargain? Are you crazy ?
Yesterday I get it at amazon.de for 343,73 plus shippig.
Best regards.
I got one when they first came out and it was lacking in the image quality and focus speed then. Now, it’s not even worth fifty bucks, in my opinion. The new 16 meg sensor in the G5 just smokes everything before it, other than the OMD and GH3, so I don’t know why anyone would settle for less. I just got rid of my GH2, because of considerable difference in image quality vs the G5.
the sensor in the G5 is the exact same as the one in theGH2 minus the multi format element and as such not surprisingly has as near identical results as you can imagine.There is no difference between the RAW results from both these cameras .
This guy take all pictures with GF1 20mm:
http://500px.com/krasowski
http://issuu.com/krasowski
(take attention on Jean Michel Jarre. Live in Monaco.)
Seems a bit too much for GF1
I still use GF-1.
After GF-1, I bought NEX5N and X100, but I still love my GF1. 20mm 1.7 is a super lens. I have yet to see the reason to upgrade the body.
This is a Photographer’s camera, not a camera for gadget geeks.
One thing to still get the GF-1 body out for if you have an E-M5 is night photography, at least for me. With some lenses, esp. the 7-14, there’s much less violet ghosting with the GF-1 (for whatever reason, probably the purportedly weak AA filter in the E-M5?)
The GF1 is also known to have a weak AA filter
Interesting, didn’t know that. Even more curious then why there’s so much more violet ghosting when shooting the same scene with the E-M5 as compared to the GF-1…