Non-Kit Version?

[luke stewart]

I was watching the Birns and Sawyer footage comparison on Vimeo for the umpteenth time today, and started reading the comments. Someone posted that a version of the GH1 would soon be released without the kit lens.

Is this an unsubstantiated rumor? Its the first I've heard of it.

[saaby]

I've seen the same rumor, as well as a kit with a more standard 18-55 lens.

[John Caballero]

AFAIK the body only has been selling in Japan for maybe the last couple of months already.

[Car3o]

i'm waging that panasonic won't release a body only version just because they never released a body only version for the G1 in the US. I hope they do, but I'm thinking they won't. They probably, just like most camera companies, make the most money from their glass. Seeing how the camera can take any glass out there, panny's probably not going to do that. Yes the gh1 is avail body only in Japan.

[NikP]

In Japan we can get the GH1 with the stock lense, no lense, the 14-45mm or the 45-200mm lense.
They do deals/packages with all sorts of configs, the major resellers here (Yodobashi, BigCamera, Sakuraya) have a lot of pull on the companies it seems.

[Chibs]

I've seen the same rumor, as well as a kit with a more standard 18-55 lens.
Very unlikely, as 18-55mm is standard for 1.6x crop cameras, not 2x. 14-45mm is the 4/3rds 'standard' lens.
Body only is also quite commonly available here in Europe.

[saaby]

Very unlikely, as 18-55mm is standard for 1.6x crop cameras, not 2x. 14-45mm is the 4/3rds 'standard' lens.
Body only is also quite commonly available here in Europe.

Sorry -- I got the specifics wrong, and should have simply said "A smaller zoom lens"

Body only is also quite common in US.



In Japan we can get the GH1 with the stock lense, no lense, the 14-45mm or the 45-200mm lense.

[Car3o]

Not for the G1. So I'm betting the Gh1 won't either. But hey, hope I'm wrong.