I just got an email indicating that Amazon will in the next day or two be shipping the GH3 I ordered December 8th. It said to expect delivery on January 17, so I guess they're expecting a shipment in the next four or five days...
Stumbled upon this today: $300 for a new G3 with the 14-42 kit lens at B&H. Mighty tempting as an upscale snapshot camera fitted with your 20mm /1.7 or 25mm /1.4. You could eBay the kit lens for $100 and have a very nice 16 MP body for 2 bills. Body only is $250 in lots of places, but the $300...
Okay, so I ordered a GH3 about a month ago, passed my GH2 on to a friend and began waiting. But I'm not the patient type, so I ordered a couple of lenses which would at least arrive right away: the 25mm 1.4 and the 45mm 2.8. They're here now, in their nice looking grey and black boxes.
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I have a GH3 on order at Amazon... was hoping to buy a suitable microphone for (mostly) nature/wildlife video. Maybe around $250 bucks, so nothing remotely high end, but aomething that would work well with the GH3's presumably improved audio possibilities. I'm considering the Rode Pro but if...
I used a Nikon 200mm ED lens a few years back and liked it for still tripod shots.
Anyway, I have a GH1 on order and one of my primary intentions is making some macro videos, mostly insects and other nature stuff.
Seems to me the 400mm effective focal length might marginalize it even...