The GX1 has fallen to a new low price record. You can grab it Adorama for $239 both in Black (Click here) and Silver (Click here). It’s $244 at Amazon (Click here) And the X kit sells for $499 at Amazon (Click here). This makes it the most sold mirrorless camera of the weekend (here is the ranking).
Yep, GX2 rumors are coming soon 😉
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At that price, it’s almost criminal.
Can someone explain why pricing for this GX1 drop so badly ? Almost don’t have value in resale market .
This is the camera that suffer deep depreciation among the rest . I might need to consider to buy a GX2 when it come out .
not sure I understand your point.
if it is: “I will have to seriously consider whether buying a GX2 when it comes out is a wise choice, because the GX1 holds it’s value so badly”, then yes, I would agree.
something is off with pricing of m43 camera’s – they swing all over the place.
there’s an upwards trend for the price at introduction and a downwards trend for the value of the camera medium to long term – if anything, it’s not giving confidence to invest in them.
If have the impression that pan/oly feel untouchable on the japanese mirrorless market and firmly believe this segment to be the future and thus they can pretty much set the price unpunished.
Very dangerous thinking if you ask me – but time will tell.
Why Yun always comes into a Panasonic post, spewing nonsense? I mean, EVERY Panasonic post, you’re either first or second to hate!
What, Panasonic ran over your dog as a child or something??
You are a psyopathic Panasonic fanboy troll, fighting your Panasonic crusade against the evil Olympus and its users, defending the consumer electronics corporation from any hint of criticism of its products, along with your partner in crime troll whoremore and other Panasonic defenders of freedom and justice. No surprise then that the biggest Panasonic fanboys come from the Yoo Ess Aye. You both own or did own Olympus product, making your behaviours and comments even more nonsensical and psycopathic. If you hate Olympus so much, why not get out of m43 altogether. Panasonic and Olympus cameras and lenses share technology and hardware, even if not so obvious, so you’ll never be “free” from Olympus evil. LOL. Yeah, Olympus is a parasite, just like its users. They’ll keep coming back and you’ll never get away from them. Learn to live. Suffer and deal with it.
I’m only a couple of lenses in MFT and I’ve been looking into A Fuji camera. If Panasonic either (A) improves IQ better than the OMD or GH3 with the G6, or (B) the GX2 rumor really becomes the True L-1 successor then I’ll stick around. If it doesn’t pan out that way, then Fuji here I come.
If the focus speed of the Fuji cameras were any better, I would’ve left already. But I like what Panasonic does.
If the resale value is one of your main reasons for buying a camera please don’t buy any other camera …ever.
how LOW can it go on sale 🙂
It’s already $199 through Roberts Camera!
Nope.
Yep. It’s listed as an as-new ‘Open Box’ item: “Brand new, open box. This item has been inspected by Panasonic. The box may show signs of light damage, such as scuffing or tears, but the product is unaffected. This comes with the full manufacturer warranty.” Just ordered one. I couldn’t resist…
Actually it is under the ‘used’ section…
If we had such offers in Europe I would buy a GX2 as secondary camera to avoid changing lenses all the time.
It might be cheaper to fly from Europe to USA, buy the camera and return.
I already have 2 of these but at this price I’m still tempted. This is a sweet little camera. I can only guess that Panasonic completely failed in their promotion of this model and/or massively overproduced them.
Good price. Nice camera but getting old. Is it really better than the GF5 which I have.
GF5 is a fine camera, but the sensor in the GX1 is much better. It all depends on what you need…
16mp, touch screen, touch to shoot, touch to focus – at that price!
its a pretty darned good deal
I think the 14-42 PZ is what has done the GX1 no favours. If people’s only impression of the camera is its performance with that ‘lens’ then its a tough sell. Or perhaps its just the pre-GX2 sale.
In the UK new at WEX its £379 body only, £419 with the PZ, and £459 with the big 14-42. When it was launch I think it was a £100 premium to get the PZ and now its £40 less!
SRS of course have the best prices at £289 body only, £369 with the 14-42, but still a premium on the PZ version at a whopping £529!
My local Panasonic store has the body only for £249, I grabbed the last black one, but they had a couple of silver bodies left. They also had a few deals with lenses, but still a premium for the power zoom. Like you said, at that price it makes a pretty good sense, glad I waited this long to upgrade my GF1. Maybe in a couple of years I will grab a GX2! 😉
If Panasonic can’t sell them at the higher price but are selling them by the bucket load at the lower price then they need to rethink their pricing strategy (assuming that they are still making a profit at teh lower price)!
I spent 600 dollar same time last year!
Hm, US as usually in EU, this wont happen.
The sensor in the G5 is such a jump ahead of of everything, other than the GH3 and now with the G6 coming out with an even better sensor, they want to dump the chump and the GX1 is the chump.
I hate Panasonic for restricting price drops to the US: in Europe, the GX1 body only still costs EUR 550-600. That’s an equivalent of about US$ 700 (!). See here: http://www.amazon.de/Panasonic-DMC-GX1EG-K-Systemkamera-Megapixel-Display/dp/B00671DY4U
Order from the US?
The camera and price are amazing. If I was in the US I would.
Got the camera, 14-42x and VF2 for a sweet £499 a while back. Not sure what all the fuss about the x lens was a while. There are no blurry images coming out of my GX1. Great camera, lens, brilliant tilting viewfinder and price.
Yet again, it’s the US that gets given a nice deal. 239USD is about 157GBP, currently the cheapest I can find the body in the UK is nearly another 100GBP on top(approx 379USD in total). Why do Panny and Olympus ignore the European market when it comes to sales and deals?