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There is plenty of Micro Fuur Thirds stuff than reached the lowest price ever on US online stors. I don’t recall to have seen so many good deals before:
Cameras:
E-P3 with lens for $379 at Amazon (Click here) and Adorama (Click here).
Black GF5 with X kit lens sells for $364 at Top Rated sellers on [shoplink 38515 ebay]eBay US (Click here)[/shoplink].
Panasonic G5 for $498 and leading the sales ranking at Amazon (Click here).
GX1 body for $249 at Adorama (Click here).
Olympus E-PM2 at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
Lenses:
$200 price drop on the Nokton 25mm f/0.95 at Adorama (Click here).
$100 price drop on the Nokton 17.5mm f/0.95 at Adorama (Click here).
The 17mm f/1.8 sells for $449 at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.
The 45mm sells for $349 at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.
The 75mm f/1.8 can be found with a $100 discount at [shoplink 38467 ebay]CameraLand (Click here)[/shoplink].
60mm macro is available for $449 at [shoplink 38470 ebay]CameraLand (Click here)[/shoplink].
20mm pancake for $335 at Amazon (Click here).
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Exactly! Like I said the other day, why are fast mFT primes so expensive? Take Nikon for example – they have the 35mm f1.8G (APS-C) and 50mm f1.8G (FF) for $200 each – or you can buy the 50mm f1.8D (FF) for as low as $100. It is a real shame that nobody has offered fast mFT primes in the same price range as the Nikkors I mentioned. You’d think someone would have done it by now. Think I’m gonna sell my GH3 – mFT is a very strange format. Loved the concept, but pricey.
+1, sensor performance has been improved over the years now price is the main weakness of this system.
but i know the quality of this nikon lenses and believe me, you won’t like to have olympus lenses that bad!
Primes are expensive on M43 until you compare it with other mirrorless systems. If you look at Fuji and Sony, their fast primes are even more expensive than M43 fast primes. In fact, M43 actually has the cheapest fast primes for mirrorless cameras.
sony 50mm f1.8 is less than $300 with OIS. Fuji 35mm is f1.4, all metal construction and hood included. Oly has a metal made lens, the 75mm/1.8, $200 more expansive.
Let’s not forget that APS-C lenses are larger and production cost is higher. Small lenses are cheaper just like the one on LX7, large aperture thru the zoom range and the whole camera costs only $300 on sale.
You just quoted the cheapest fast lens on each system. On M43, both the 45mm f1.8 and 20mm f1.7 can get had for around $300-$350 depending on stock. The Leica 25mm f1.4 costs around $450 now.
smaller = Cheaper ?
that must be a joke. Its not the material that makes the price… And in general, smaller with good quality means high priced in electronics.
And there are cheap lense in mFT as well: the Sigma Primes, the 20mm, the 14mm, and the 45mm. all of those in really good quality.
By the way, the 35/1.8 is the reason why i suggest Nikon to beginners-> its really a good bargain, and a cheap start into photography. but after that you also need a lot of money to go on.
To each his own….You won’t find high-quality, image-stabilized, weather-sealed fast zooms in any other system for under $1400 like the Panasonic zooms. With those lenses you mentioned, you’re getting equal, if not better image quality and smaller form factor in mFT.
Not interested in fast zooms. Just give us sub $250 fast primes – don’t care if they’re not weather-sealed. I’m not shooting in the Arctic. It’s a real shame that there is no low-priced mFT lenses like the Nikkors. And I wouldn’t go giving the GH3 the “small form-factor” award – my GH3 is not too far off my Canon 7D – it’s definitely heavier than the Canon, that’s for sure. If I was going to give any camera the “small form-factor” award, I’d give it to my Sony NEX5n. Speaking of which, I can get a E-Mount 50mm f1.8 with OSS for $299. Olympus wants me to pay $350 for their 45mm f1.8, which not only comes with no stabilisation, but they want me to pay an extra $40 for the hood? WTF? Like I said, mFT has great potential, that’s why I invested in it, but where the hell are the decently priced fast primes? They’ve had years now to produce them – nothing. A real shame.
don’t understand: you have a gh3, the most expensive mFT body, and you complain about the 45mm price???
and btwm sigma does a very good 30mm for cheap 😉
Just because I bought the GH3, doesn’t mean I’m made of money…Geez, people buy the D600 and chuck the $200 50mm 1.8G on it…
Ok, what about:
you bought the biggest mFT Camera on the market an complain about the size. 😉
I didn’t complain about the size – I said I wouldn’t give it the “small form-factor” award. What’s wrong with you guys?
A few days ago the E-P3 wit kitlens was only 349 euro on iBOOD. Pretty nice update for my E-PL1 so I bought it.
G5 is currently ranked second among CSCs on Amazon, but #260 in the Camera & Photo category, which places it behind 35 dSLRs.
It is just shameful to be posting an ad with a headline “never so cheap” which everyone knows is absolutely false. I guess a lot of traffic is expected from the E-P5 specs, so it’s a great opportunity to make a few extra bucks from it. Nothing wrong with that except for the blantantly false sale pitch. I have lost all respect for the admin.
I don’t like it either, but it’s part of his job, so.. Also, I don’t like that most of these above are not (at least to me) such cheap deals. At least to me. The only interesting lens could be Voigty 25mm, but yesterday night, during a movie backstage in Venice, I have realized that at ISO 1600 my PanaLeica 25mm works really fine. For extreme dark situation 17.5mm does its job. Greatly.
So: any news on Voigty 42mm?!?!
admin works hard on this site to keep us up to date. Your comment about him is unwarranted. We have no respect for you. Go elsewhere.
I post deals post almost every day. Rumor or no rumor. So what you write is BS 🙂
“A few good deals” may have been a bit more fitting. 😉
Agreed. It’s factually wrong to say that some of these lenses have “never been so cheap”.
admin,
You posted that the deals have “never been so cheap”. Here are the facts:
E-P3 $379 – same price for last couple of weeks
GF5 $364 – in your April 4/11/13 post, it was $339 (yes with X lens)
G5 – $498 – same price for last month; in fact it was that price for BOTH the 14-42 and 45-150 lens a few weeks ago! (adorama)
GX1 – $249 – same price for last month
E-PM2 – $425 – it had a price of $399 recently
So in every one of your “never been so cheap” deals, you are feeding pure BS to pump sales. Post your deals, but don’t add any BS to make yourself more money at the expense of others.
Hi!
E-Pm2 with body was $399? That I never saw before. Of course it could be that here and there for a short moment there was a deal for a couple of $ less. But damn, the message is meant to say that so many MFT stuff is very cheap at the moment. Not just one camera! Also the GF5X kit deal was veyr limited for a svery short time. That said your tone is pretty much non educate. Once ther eis omething you have to critize do it with respect. I am tired of the (few) people that talk with zero aspect. Critize with tone and with the intention to improve my work. That is the right approach!
Damn, writing 1,250 posts per year and even if I would be wrong sometimes on 10 of them per year you should be nicer 🙂
“Critize with tone and with the intention to improve my work.”
That is really in line with my thinking too, Admin. I don’t mean to try to kiss butt because that is against my principles but that really strikes a chord in me. I see so much opposite of that walking around and on the internet. From the comments we can see different views and info that can help everyone learn and get better.
The Photog Community is small. Lets not destroy and alienate the few buying that are equipment. Did you guys see the Chart some blog posted (Sorry forgot the name) for 2012 digi cam production? Several categories saw 20% drops(m43). The compact cam market had 50% decrease in production. I would think they decreased production because they saw huge drops in purchases.. So how bout we push our peers forward instead of pushing them back. or into the ground(I’m guilty of slightly doing this in the past too unintentionally).
admin,
Let me help you improve yourself:
1) if you meant to say “MFT stuff is very cheap at the moment”, say that, instead of “They have never been so cheap.” Making false statements diminish your credibility.
2) in general, don’t use words like “BS” and “damn” to express yourself and then tell someone else that that person’s tone is “non educate”. If you choose to operate an English language website, you need to express yourself more intelligently.
3) don’t jump to making personal attacks when your work is criticized. And don’t make excuses. No one really cares how many posts you make a year. If you have facts to support your work, cite them. Otherwise, apologize for your misstatements and behave in a professional manner. By making personal attacks and whining, you reveal yourself to be a small-time operator not worthy of the respect you demand.
🙂
Ok let’s keep that discussion:
1) I posted 12 product links and you are basically pissed off because two of the products have been cheaper (for a short time) in the past. P.S.: And I still don’t remember to have ever seen one of the two (the $399 for the E-Pm2 with lens).
2) Because of that you wrote “I guess a lot of traffic is expected from the E-P5 specs, so it’s a great opportunity to make a few extra bucks from it.” That’s called denigration and has nothing to do with “facts”. That’s why I say it’s Bullshit (le’ts not use BS) anymore. Because I post every day one deal for almost three years now. Where is your logic here?
3) “No one really cares how many posts you make a year. If you have facts to support your work, cite them.” You really pretend from a single hobbiest to be perfect? And even if I would be wrong you are free to insinuate false things? Yes you can, and that’ why the comment is approved and not deleted. Because I have nothing to hide. This is a personal limited and soemtimes non perfect blogger. Easy, accept this and write me in a “Normal” friendly way when you wnat me to correct soemthing. Like so many other 43rumor readers do and I always appreciate it.
EPM2 was $399 last month at Amazon.com. I believe it’ll be to that price again soon.
Notice that the E-PM2 body costs more than the E-PM2 with kit lens? Weird.
Ow, ow, ow, that apostrophe-S hurts.
Well, at least these are cheap lenses’ 😉
Admin could be a greengrocer. Those always sell apple’s, orange’s and cabbage’s. 😉
While we are at it…… “Those” should be “they”.
I was going to write “Them,” but then I thought I should be more subtle. Would you like a cookie or do you prefer a little gold star? 😛
The website is run by a European who speaks English as his fourth or fifth language (after German, Italian, Spanish and possibly some others), so we can forgive him the occasional error in grammar and spelling.
Ich kann meine Bewunderung kaum zäumen!
Sure, but these aren’t necessarily English mistakes that would be fine in other languages. Also, one never stops learning – especially in languages, right?
the noktons have always been cheaper at mainline photographics:
http://www.mainlinephoto.com.au/category39_1.htm
Hopefully cheaper now!!!
They are still made from the same cheap materials. 😛
the noktons have always been cheaper at mainline photographics:
http://www.mainlinephoto.com.au/category39_1.htm
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Admin, what is up with you and deleting comments? Especially when they weren’t trolling comments and just matters of opinion? I don’t know about everyone here but as a member of your American audience, I am a bit bothered cause of the whole freedom of Speech here. At least thats what they told we’re all suposed to have..
I didn’t delete any comment. Probably what you didn’t notices is that sometimes comments are hold into moderation (for example when there are over two links or badwords).
Also, the big American websites are pretty bad for stifling free speech – dpreview for one.
@Golfing13
I can think of some American mirrorless sites that you are not allowed to comment on full stop.
@crap
you does get what you pay for.
Do you even know what “freedom of speech” actually means?
It certainly doesn’t mean that you can say whatever you like on a website owned by a private individual, no matter whether they are American or not. Make your own website and say whatever you like. The owner of this site can delete anything he or she chooses to.
You are emotionally barking back like an immature teenager and twisting my words. Re-read what I wrote. I did not say. “say anything.” I meant to talk about what is relevant to conversation despite being in opposite contrast of the idea, the one I saw at the time was a deal price. After you read what I wrote, you can re-read what you wrote also. no thank you josef for you irrational backlash.
Thank you Admin for the reply
Sorry everyone I like don’t spewing negativity on here but ppl try to reel you in and you get caught sometimes
I hear ya, Snails. Point taken.
Not true that these are the cheapest prices ever.
I bought a 60/2.8 Macro in Australia for the equivalent of USD $395.
I bought a 45/1.8 in Malaysia for the equivalent of USD $315.
Both lenses were new and bought from online retailers.
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Can you please tell what website this is? It would help me out a lot thank you
Does anyone has info if the silver lenses come Friday will go back to their original price?
A friend from US will visit me next summer and onyone know where can i find the cheapest price for samyang lens 7.5mm? thanks very much!!