We noticed that the Panasonic price dropped in many countries. As you may remember few weeks ago we posted a rumor which said that the GH1 could become a successor in February-March. We don’t know (and we don’t believe) that the current price drops has something to do with the rumored successor release.
Check for yourself the worldwide price drops:
US
– Today amazon US sells the Panasonic GH1 with 14-140mm lens for $1,299.00
Germany
Let’s take a look on the 90 days price history:
The cheapest price you can find is in Pixmania Deutschland: 1 290 € mit dem Promo-Code DE181209 .
Other European countries
Pixmania dropped the prices in Netherland,
Belgium and
Italy.
UPDATE:
And that’s the UK price history (Thanks Andy!)
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Here’s the UK price graph:
http://www.camerapricebuster.co.uk/graphs/Panasonic_Lumix_GH1_+_14-140mm_lens_graph.png
Dell has it for a little under $1250.
http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?sku=A3145501&cs=19&c=us&l=en&dgc=SS&cid=39715&lid=1003763&ACD=10550055-3136390-&AID=3136390
We need to remember that the stock is getting very good right now unlike July when I got it. Plus the 7D and Panasonic’s own GH1 is taking some of it’s sales. Now with the release of the Olympus EP2, there’s more competition. Because of all that, it shouldn’t be surprising that the price is going down. Anyway I hear Panasonic has discounted the prices to distributes.
I meant Panasonic’s own GF1 not GH1 by the way.