{"id":1128,"date":"2009-05-07T05:03:10","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T19:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=1128"},"modified":"2009-05-21T22:19:32","modified_gmt":"2009-05-21T12:19:32","slug":"panasonic-announce-pricing-and-availability-of-their-gh-1-video-micro-four-thirds-camera-kit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=1128","title":{"rendered":"Panasonic announce pricing and availability of their GH-1 video Micro Four Thirds camera kit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Panasonic announce pricing and availability of their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=885\">GH-1 video Micro Four Thirds camera kit<\/a> &#8211; see <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.panasonic.com\/webapp\/wcs\/stores\/servlet\/prModelDetail?storeId=11301&#038;catalogId=13251&#038;itemId=347245&#038;modelNo=Content05052009080533730&#038;surfModel=Content05052009080533730\">here for details<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Availability as kit with Panasonic GH-1 plus Lumix Vario 14-140mm lens &#8211; <strong>early June 2009<\/strong> at <strong>RRP of $US1499.95<\/strong> or \u20ac1550 (Europe will have choice of red or Champagne gold color while US will only have black at this stage).<\/p>\n<p><strong>It seems RRP for Australia is $A3299<\/strong> &#8211; see <a href=\"http:\/\/panasonic.com.au\/products\/category.cfm?objectID=4779\">here<\/a> which makes it much more expensive than its G1 camera which is $A1649 for a single kit lens (14-45mm lens) and $A2199 for twin lens kit (14-45mm plus 45-200mm lens). At that price, I don&#8217;t think too many will sell in Australia &#8211; it&#8217;s just ridiculously high even allowing for Australian dollar = $US0.70 and 10% GST (this should make it $A2360 not $A3299!) &#8211; but its a unique camera so price may not be so relevant to some.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the Australian price may justify a trip to US to buy it there even if we catch the flu over there!<\/p>\n<p>Actual retail prices for the G1 with 14-45mm lens in Australian shops is $A1399 not the RRP $A1649, and the twin lens kit is $A1889 not RRP $A2199, so I would expect the GH-1 to hit the shops at much less than RRP $A3299 but surely, it should be closer to $A2200 if they want to have any chance of selling these. <\/p>\n<p>Comparison Australian pricings are Olympus E620 body $A1169, Olympus 18-180mm lens $A749, Olympus 15-54mm II lens $869, Olympus 50-200mm lens $A1499, E-30 body $A1619, E-3 body $A2099, Nikon D90 body $A1535, Nikon 18-200mm VR lens $A1085.<\/p>\n<p>Panasonic have also announced optional Leica M and Leica R lens adapters for use of these lenses on the Micro Four Thirds cameras.<\/p>\n<p>Panasonic have also announced new Class 10 SDHC memory cards in 4-32Gb sizes and allows 22Mb\/sec transfers which will make transferring video files faster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Panasonic announce pricing and availability of their GH-1 video Micro Four Thirds camera kit &#8211; see here for details. Availability as kit with Panasonic GH-1 plus Lumix Vario 14-140mm lens &#8211; early June 2009 at RRP of $US1499.95 or \u20ac1550 (Europe will have choice of red or Champagne gold color while US will only have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[18,123],"class_list":["post-1128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cameras","tag-four-thirds-micro","tag-panasonic-gh1"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}