UPDATE_2: Hold on guys! Adorama is offering an even more crazy deal on the GH2 with a coupon code. The offer starts in a couple of hours so please hold on! And the codes were “reversed”. Now it should be fine. Here are the deals:
GH2 with 14-42mm lens for $699.95 at Adorama (Click here). Please insert the Coupon Code “S1442144”.
GH2 with 14-140mm lens for $999.95 at Adorama (Click here). Please insert the Coupon Code “S2141401”.
Limited Quantity at this price.
And here are the Amazon GH2 deals:
GH2 with 14-42mm lens at Amazon (Click here) for $795 only! No joke, That’s $105 less than the GH2 body only sold by third party resellers at Amazon (Click here)…LOL! And at the moment of writing you can find eighteen GH2+14-140mm kits for $1199 at Amazon US (Click here). For Europeans: There is a cashback action on the GH2 and G3 in Germany (Click here). The only other Cyber deal that is still ongoing on m43 cameras is the GF3 + free accessory action at Amazon (Click here). Full deals homepage at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here), BHphoto (Click here), Cameta (Click here) and J&R (Click here).
Reminder: Within the next two weeks Panasonic will announce the new GH2 firmware with “Progressive Segments Frame” recording -> 1080/25p signal recorded as 1080/50i with 24Mbit/s. And that is the official features/improvement list from Panasonic:
- – New video mode which is suitable for editing video recorded at high bit rate (24Mbps)
- – New functional option with Power Zoom Lens ([DISP FOCAL LENGTH (Display of Focal Length)], [STEP ZOOM], [ZOOM RESUME], [ZOOM SPEED] and [ZOOM RING*])
- – Full area enlargement of AF area setting
- – Improvement in the speed of consecutive shooting when shot with auto bracket
- – Increased number of recordable images in consecutive shooting
- – [EX.TELE CONV. (Extra Tele Conversion)] can be set ON/OFF separately in photo or video recording
- – More accurate light adjustment of built-in flash
- – Improvement in the AF performance in video recording
- – Synchronization of alarm volume for low battery with [BEEP VOLUME]
- – New [HALF-PRESS RELEASE] function
- – Improved NR (Noise Reduction) in high sensitivity shooting
- – ON/OFF control of the touch-screen