Panasonic LF1 in Stock in USA. E-P5 to ship soon.

The new Panasonic LF1 is now in Stock for the first time in USA via BHphoto (Click here). That camera left us with a bit of mixed feelings. Certainly a nice camera but not a real winner in the higly competitive compact camera market. It’s rumored that Olympus will release a high end compact camera soon. I hope it will feature a larger sensors to compete against the Sony RX100.

And finally the E-P5 will ship on June 12 (body only) and June 15 (superkit) according to Amazon US (Click here).

The other MFT camera deals:
GH3 for $1,028 (with 2% reward included) at Amazon US (Click here).
G5 with 14-42mm lens for $349 and free 32GB SD card at Samys (Click here).
G5 with double lens kit and free $100 Gift Card(!) at Adorama (Click here) for $598 (or $498 if you detract the gift card).
E-P3 for $329 at Amazon (Click here).

E-P5 in Stock at Amazon (and new review at Photographyblog).

The E-P5 superkit is in Stock in Silver or Black via third party resellers at Amazon US (Click here). And if you need to read more about the new PEN click over on the just posted review at Photographyblog. They say:

The E-P5’s biggest problem is not the camera itself, but its price – £899.99/$999.99 body-only makes it as expensive as the OM-D E-M5. Sure, it offers a lot of features that its big brother doesn’t, but then the E-M5 is arguably a more well-balanced camera thanks principally to its built-in viewfinder. Only you can decide if the more compact, stylish and feature-rich E-P5 warrants such a position. Ultimately the E-P5 joins the E-M5 as a fantastic compact system camera, albeit again a rather pricey one.

Looks to me that the Superkit (with lens and EVF included) is the most sensible choice. Body only is really too expensive!

The other MFT camera deals:
GH3 for $1,028 (with 2% reward included) at Amazon US (Click here).
G5 with 14-42mm lens for $349 and free 32GB SD card at Samys (Click here).
G5 with double lens kit and free $100 Gift Card(!) at Adorama (Click here) for $598 (or $498 if you detract the gift card).
E-P3 for $329 at Amazon (Click here).

Ulterior price drop: Panasonic GH3 for $1,028 at Amazon.

After the $230 discount today there has been an ulterior $20 price drop on the GH3 at Amazon US (Click here). You pay $1049 but there is also a 2% reward to add. If you are curious to see how good the disocunted GH3 sells than check out the DSLR (and not the mirrorless!) Amazon ranking (Click here). it’s getting closer to the top 20 which is quite a good achievement. I am still surprised the camera is listed as DSLR. Probably it’s part of a Panasonic US strategy to convince the mass that this camera is as good as a DSLR. In the US market mirrorless still plays an almost insignificant role (in terms of sales).

All other hot deals of the day fro US and EU readers can be found at DealsRunner.com.

Super G5 deals ($349 with lens!). E-P5 in Stock.

Panasonic G5:
The G5 is back to Amazon’ts top list (Click here) thanks to the G5+lens kit deals. The ranking is lead by the Canon EOS-M which got a massive price drop (it never sold well before that). And there are more cool G5 deals in other stores:
G5 with 14-42mm lens for $349 and free 32GB SD card at Samys (Click here).
G5 with double lens kit and free $100 Gift Card(!) at Adorama (Click here) for $598 (or $498 if you detract the gift card).

Olympus PEN:
Black Super E-P5 kit in Stock via third party reseller at Amazon (Click here).

Panasonic GH3:
$230 price drop on the GH3 at Amazon US (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here). You now pay $1,068.98 for the camera and there is also a 2% back in Reward (makes you pay $1.047 for the camera). You can also get it for $1.099 bundled with Lightroom 4 at [shoplink 39939 ebay]Kenmorecamera (Click here)[/shoplink].

Europe: Free battery grip for GH3 and E-M5 in UK.

There is some life on planet Europe too (from a deals point of view):

UK:
In UK you can claim a free battery grip for the GH3 (Click here) and for the E-M5 (Click here). UK is also the first country in the world that already discounted the price on the new E-P5 (Click here). It was indeed alreayd much too expensive before the price drop!

And now some continental Europe deals:
100 Euro off on the superb Nokton 25mm f/0.95 lens on [shoplink 39960 ebay]Pixmania eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].
If you dont’ care about the color than you can get the Violet E-Pm1 with 14-42mm lens for 187 Euro at Amazon Germany (Click here).
First Olympus 75mm under 900 Euro at [shoplink 39959 ebay]FotoMundus (Click here)[/shoplink].
Free 40-150mm lens at Olympus Nordic (Click here).

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(UPDATED) $230 price drop on the GH3 at Amazon and BHphoto!

It’s Panasonic US deal day!

There is an huge $230 price drop on the GH3 at Amazon US (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here). You now pay $1,068.98 for the camera and there is also a 2% back in Reward (makes you pay $1.047 for the camera). You can also get it for $1.099 bundled with Lightroom 4 at [shoplink 39939 ebay]Kenmorecamera (Click here)[/shoplink].

And the G5 got a $100 price drop too at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and Bhphoto (Click here).

Walimex 24mm T/1.5 lens in Stock and shipping in Europe.

There is a new relatively unkown lens that now is in Stock and shipping in Europe. It’s the Walimex 24mm T/1.5 video lens. You can grab it now at Amazon UK (Click here) and at Amazon Germany (Click here) in both Four Thirds ot Micro Four Thirds mount.

If this is the first time you here about “Walimex” don’t worry, it’s a Samyang! The problem is Samyang uses many different brands to sell their lenses. This is the third native MFT lens from Samyang. The Samyang 16mm f/2.0 is coming soon (save this search on Slidoo to get notified when it’s in Stock on eBay). The other lens is the fisheye:
In USA it’s named Rokinon 7.5mm and you find it on [shoplink 29105 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink], Amazon (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
In Europe it’s named Samyang 7.5mm and you find it on [shoplink 29106 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink], Amazon (Click here).
In UK it’s named Walimex and you find it on [shoplink 29109 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink] and Amazon UK (Click here).

eBay links on all Olympus Four Thirds lenses:
[shoplink 20647 ebay]Samyang [/shoplink], [shoplink 20684 ebay]Walimex [/shoplink], [shoplink 20649 ebay]Rokinon [/shoplink], [shoplink 20650 ebay]Opteka [/shoplink], [shoplink 20651 ebay]Falcon [/shoplink], [shoplink 20653 ebay]Vivitar [/shoplink] and[shoplink 20652 ebay]Bower [/shoplink].