Panasonic dumping G1s?

[jesse1dog]

Been looking at Panasonic G1 prices for a few weeks after I 'experienced' one and liked it 'a lot'.
I now see that PC World, Currys and Dixons are selling new G1s for £299.95 including postage and packing - a special promotion offer!
This looks a pretty good deal to me and I can't see NEW prices getting lower than this. Is this a 'close out' on the part of Panasonic - giving the mass retailers the benefit to quickly clear space and stock.
Worth buying at this price?

jesse

 

[Pablito]

Worth buying at this price?

only if it's worth buying at all. Price is inconsequential in the end, unless bargain hunting is more important than the pictures.

 

[ebino]

right now the camera market is in complete chaos. there is buyer paralysis, people don't know what to buy.

The Sony NEX 5 has totally changed the game when it came to m4/3 large sensor compacts and advanced p&s cameras... and now nikon D7000 has completely turned the DSLR world upside down... There is word the Panasonic GF2 will be announced shortly and Fuji X100 looms ominously on the horizon.

The used market is flooded, you can get very low shutter count Nikon D200 for $400. Gf1 with one of its lenses for $600 and so on.

To me its very clear that camera market is going the way of computer hardware market, in other words a breakneck race to lower prices... the good news is that photography will remain affordable to a large section of people, the bad news is that every time you pay premium, you know you will regret it in six months or so.

For $1000 Nikon offers, upto ISO 25600, usable images at even ISO 12800, 39 focus points, new revamped matrix metering engine, HD video, live view, magnesium alloy body, 100% viewfinder coverage... the list goes on... and that is only a sign of things to come, because others now have to keep up...

hold on to your seats and your credit cards!

 

[greyelm]

The grass is always greener over the hill. We can always find a reason not to buy something technical on the promise of improvements round the corner. If the G1 suits you then go for it, the price drop is a bonus. I have a G1 and it does everything I want for my kind of hobby photography, it allows the adaption of legacy lenses and provides hours of fun shooting with some very old lenses. The panasonic lenses produce fantastic results.

I would add that the G1 EVF is excellent and in my opinion the G1 is a much sleeker camera than a GF1 or EP with their bolt on EVFs.

 

[sparrow6224]

The G1 is a great camera producing results far beyond what analysis of the sensor might lead you to suspect, in part because of the superb lenses you can attach to it. Among these -- and I mean really superb -- is the kit lenses it was sold with: the 14-45mm vario-elmar and the lumix 20mm/1.7. Note that the newer kits, in the 14-42 focal length, are not nearly as good as the original. But that zoom is simply the best I've ever used and at the resolution limits of the 2x sensor proved just as good as the Leicas, Minoltas, etc I was using with the camera. If you've wanted a G1 and felt you couldn't spring for the dough, but now you can, do it. You won't be disappointed in the camera unless you weep over the great cameras that come out after. Me, I just bought a used D300 Nikon for $1100 four weeks before the D7000 announcement, a camera that retails here for $1200. Of course then I'd have to pay tax etc but still.... I love the D300 but every discussion of the D7000 makes me feel, as we say in Brooklyn, a 'stunad'.

 

[Kim Coxon]

If you do want one, it looks like you have missed the boat! Everywhere I have checked that lists them at that price says "item unavailable"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Kim

 

[seakayaker1]

. . . . . purchased a new G1 for $219.00 and have sent it out for a IR conversion.

For me it was worth the bargin price.

Life is Grand!

Dan
~ 😉

 

[jesse1dog]

Kim could well be right!

Kim could well be right!

Very funny isn't it!:bang:
Checked prices this morning and now this afternoon all three sites say - item unobtainable!
Have found a firm with 5 red ones at £302 + P&P but as I've never heard of them let alone traded with them, doubts are there.
Might have known things couldn't be as good as all that!😡

jesse

 

[Kim Coxon]

Curry's, Dixon's and PC World are all one chain. I have seen them do this time and time again.

Kim

Very funny isn't it!:bang:
Checked prices this morning and now this afternoon all three sites say - item unobtainable!
Have found a firm with 5 red ones at £302 + P&P but as I've never heard of them let alone traded with them, doubts are there.
Might have known things couldn't be as good as all that!😡

jesse

 

[MickH]

I think they are available at Curry's etc 'in-store' if in stock at your local shop. They've got 'em in Leicester...or had the last time I looked.