HUGE Panasonic discounts on the S9

[Andrew Reid]

https://www.wexphotovideo.com/panasonic-lumix-s9-digital-camera-body-with-20-60mm-f3-5-5-6-lens-black-3170471/

£800 off.

Which makes it £999 with the 20-60mm kit lens.

The body only is down to as little as £750 open box mint used.

Down from the RRP of a few months ago £1600.

One can only assume they are having massive problems shifting them.

Which is a pity because the S9 is a fun little beast.

[eatstoomuchjam]

The discounts don't seem to have come to the US, at least not yet.  Used bodies are still about $1,200 here and new is still about $1,400 body-only.  

[Thpriest]

I don't see the S9 discounts in Spain but the new S1ii packs are out:

3.850,52 € for the S1ii and the 24-60 2.8. That looks a reasonable offer.

[ac6000cw]

 

8 hours ago, Andrew Reid said:

https://www.wexphotovideo.com/panasonic-lumix-s9-digital-camera-body-with-20-60mm-f3-5-5-6-lens-black-3170471/

£800 off.

Which makes it £999 with the 20-60mm kit lens.

The body only is down to as little as £750 open box mint used.

Down from the RRP of a few months ago £1600.

One can only assume they are having massive problems shifting them.

Which is a pity because the S9 is a fun little beast.

The first stage of large S9 price drops in the UK started in February - I bought an S9 as soon as it happened, as I'd been interested in getting one for a while. In my case it was a red S9 + 18-40mm kit for around £1100 in 'like new' condition. With further price drops about a month ago that kit is now about £1200 new.

I quite like it - nice solid-feeling body, decent battery life and with the 18-40mm a fairly compact kit (for a full-frame camera). Not quite a modern GX80, but close enough for most of my use cases.

My main criticism is probably that, for a camera presumably aimed at new/inexperienced users, there's too much of the higher-end video stuff cluttering up the menus with options and choices they probably won't understand or ever use. Sure, you can use filtering, My List, customise the 'quick' menu and set up custom mode dial presets to simplify things - but you've got to understand what the options mean in order to set those up.... Why not split the video bitrate/fps/frame size/codec options into 'basic' and 'advanced' sets out-of-the box? And when you press the 'record' button in photo mode, default it to shutter priority with 180 degree shutter angle, instead of 'P' mode with variable shutter speed/angle (but that is a historical Panasonic issue/feature going back many years - at least the 'flicker decrease' workaround for it is still in the menus).