{"id":7850,"date":"2010-08-12T04:00:44","date_gmt":"2010-08-12T11:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=7850"},"modified":"2010-08-11T09:12:49","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T16:12:49","slug":"a-bargain-basement-g1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2010\/08\/12\/a-bargain-basement-g1\/","title":{"rendered":"A bargain basement G1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Snap one up while you can.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The Panasonic G1 is discontinued but remaindered new samples are still out there at a bargain price.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/G1_$500.jpg\" width=\"676\" height=\"281\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i>G1 pricing at Amazon.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The replacement G2 is $770, so the equation is simple.  If the following new features of the G2 are worth $270 to you, get the G2:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A touch screen to focus the camera\n<li>A movie mode\n<\/ul>\n<p>And, of course, the 14-42mm kit lens on the G2 is now widely reported as being inferior to the 14-45mm version on the G1, and I can most certainly testify to the quality of the latter.<\/p>\n<p>The G10 (lower quality movie mode) at $540 is not really an alternative to the G1.  It has an awful EVF (one key reason you buy a G1\/2 is for the excellent eye level viewfinder), drops the swiveling rear LCD display (not like I care about that and nor should you &#8211; LCDs are not a useful framing tool) and has the same lower quality 14-42mm kit lens.<\/p>\n<p>The G1 at $500 strikes me as a real bargain for real photographers tired of lugging around their heavy APS-C or full frame DSLRs.  I have had no reliability issues after nearly 7,000 frames over the past year.  If you just want a G1 back-up body, it is not sold in that configuration in the US but I would bet you can unload the spare kit lens for $200 to someone displeased with the latest version.  So call it $300 for a spare body.  Not bad at all.<\/p>\n<p>And if you want to join the cadre of elite users, like me, you can get the blue bodied version for a modest $40 more!<\/p>\n<p>Further, if you want to get lucky, it seems that an iPhone and a G1 are THE winning combination:<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/iPhone_sex.jpg\" width=\"483\" height=\"366\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/G1_sex.jpg\" width=\"498\" height=\"570\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i>As usual, Windows users are SOL.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snap one up while you can. The Panasonic G1 is discontinued but remaindered new samples are still out there at a bargain price. G1 pricing at Amazon. The replacement G2 is $770, so the equation is simple. If the following new features of the G2 are worth $270 to you, get the G2: A touch &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2010\/08\/12\/a-bargain-basement-g1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A bargain basement G1<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-panasonic-g1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7850"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7858,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7850\/revisions\/7858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}