For a limited time you can buy the LX7 for $274 at Panasonic US store (Click here). You have to enter the coupon code “LX745” to get the discount! At the same time you can find again a Gold BOX deal on the GF3 14mm kit at Amazon (Click here). You cna get it for $279 only!

The first two 17mm f/1.8 lenses are in Stock and shipping on [shoplink 35702 ebay]eBay UK (Click here)[/shoplink]. And a couple of German 43rumors reader told me their preorders at Amazon.de have been shipped.

Panasonic keeps offering deal after deal on current GF and GX cameras. While we all know that a new GF7 is due for early Spring I am still wondering what Panasonic plans to do with the GX2 after dropping the initial surprise of e new model this year. Anyway, here are the US deals:

The GX1 with 14-42mm X(!) pancake zoom sells for $499 at Amazon (Click here).
And today you will get a Gold Box deal on the Black and Brown GF5 X kit at Amazon (Click here).
In UK you get a 50 pound cash-back and free EVF(!) on the Black GX1 at Wexphotographic (Click here).
There is no such deal in the rest of Europe (I checked the GX1 price history on idealo).

As you know yesterday Olympus posted some impressive deals on refurbished E-M5 cameras on their getolympus website. Short time after I posted this on 43rumors theyput their website offline. Now it’s back and prices have been raised. Wondering what happened to those of you that preordered the camera for the crazy low price. Got some feedback from Oly?

Some other US deals:
Panasonic 12-35mm X lens for 1,039 dollars via Panacam on Amazon (Click here).
GF5 with lens for $339 at Newegg (Click here).
Most sold MFT camera is again the E-PL1 (Ranking here).

Got a couple of emails from 43rumors readers about a “tremendous” deal ongoing on refurbished Olympus cameras at Getolympus.com. You can get the E-M5 for $699 or the 12-50mm kit version for $753. Comes with a 30 day money back/90 day warranty from Olympus. That’s $130 than what you pay for refurbished cameras at Cametaauctions. Europeans can buy refurbished E-M5 (but likely more expensive) on eBay (via Slidoo). And there is a Gold Box deal on the E-M5 at Amazon UK.
UPDATE: Olympus just removed the deal. So di they actually do a mistake?

And there is also a new Gold Box deal on the GF5 kit at Amazon (Click here).

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P.S.: Also posted at mu-43.

Let’s Go to Future (SLR Magic 35mm T1.4) from Seb Farges on Vimeo.

We are close to Christmas and I guess plenty of you are buying cameras in the very lats minute. European readers that like me want to save some bucks may try their luck on the well known refurbished Oly cameras from [shoplink 22691 ebay]Olympusmarket[/shoplink]. Here is a list of the ongoing auctions:

E-M5:
[shoplink 35630 ebay]Black body only[/shoplink] [shoplink 35637 ebay]Silver body only[/shoplink] [shoplink 35642 ebay]Black with 12-50mm lens[/shoplink] All E-M5 auctions on eBay Slidoo.

E-P3:
[shoplink 35629 ebay]Silver double lens kit[/shoplink] [shoplink 35636 ebay]Silver with 14-150mm lens[/shoplink]

E-PL3:
[shoplink 35631 ebay]White with kit lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 35632 ebay]Red with kit lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 35640 ebay]Red double lens kit[/shoplink] [shoplink 35645 ebay]Black double lens kit[/shoplink] [shoplink 35647 ebay]Black with kit lens[/shoplink]

E-PM1:
[shoplink 35633 ebay]Silver with 14-150mm lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 35638 ebay]Silver with kit lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 35639 ebay]Black with kit lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 35641 ebay]Brown with kit lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 35646 ebay]White with kit lens[/shoplink]

E-P1:
[shoplink 35634 ebay]Silver with kit lens[/shoplink]

Lenses:
[shoplink 35635 ebay]12mm lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 35644 ebay]12-50mm lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 35648 ebay]45mm lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 35649 ebay]40-150mm lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 35650 ebay]FT 150mm f/2.0 lens[/shoplink]

There is a Gold Box deal on the Silver GX1 and 14-42mm X kit at Amazon (Click here).

And that’s the only big deal we had today as the December 14ht date for the E-m5 firmware release was wrong (P.S: it was a FT2 rumor from two unknown sources). So you see why you don’t see so many FT2 rumors on that website :(
UPDATE: 43rumros reader Samuel shared an email he got form Olympus saying that “we are not thinking of updating the firmware for OM-D E-M5 at present.”

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Back to the GX1, there is also a new Camera Cover from Gariz ([shoplink 35615 ebay]Click here to check out the three different versions for sale[/shoplink]).