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Update: Bought GX80 and 12-35mm f/2.8
Yeah. This really hurt my wallet but I ended up getting GX80 and 12-35mm f/2.8. I did say 12-35mm f/2.8 isn't sold at affordable prices, but it's for sale for about 600€ on Ebay from Europe brand new without warranty (grey market). In my books that's about as good as a near mint used one from Finland without warranty. It's about 3.5 times as expensive as I probably could've gotten the 12-32mm kit lens for used which does kind of sting, but I feel like the 12-35mm will probably keep its price well enough in case I end up regretting it for some reason. Who knows, maybe I'll even end up selling my 25mm f/1.7 if f/2.8 feels enough with dual IS which would bring the price down further.
GX80 body was 440€. It's been 399€ on a Black Friday sale and obviously the recent UK double cashback would've been even cheaper had I been ready to pull the trigger and found a trustworthy seller to ship it to Finland. I figured it's unlikely there's going to be some amazing cashback deal that brings it down much further any time soon since even that 440€ is 110€ cheaper than the next cheapest retailer.
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