Sad Used Prices for EM-1 first edition

geoson wrote:

The GX7 has held more value because in many people’s opinion, Panasonic didn’t make a proper replacement. Remember the howling over the size of the GX8? I have it now and only wish I had bought it sooner, but I listened to the chatter. I think the size of the G9 has made the GX8 more acceptable. Then Panasonic launched the GX85 which seen as a downgrade in some aspects, and now the GX9, which is still not a flagship class camera the way the GX8 was.

People love the GX8 in retrospect like others love the GM5.  Both cameras were very capable camera in different type classes.  Both failed because their launch price was too high and also each for one different factor.

In the case of the GX8 - I avoided it like the plague because it had a side-hinged lcd.

I loved the GM5 because of its size but others needed a fistful of missing features to make it seem more than being in the toy camera category that it was quickly categorised in.

Both sold well when the price dropped and they became good value for what they were.

For me the GX7 was “perfect” and at the peak design of its style of camera - the GX8 added a larger evf (that I did not need) and a side hinged lcd of a type that I loathed.  Even at reduced prices I could not be tempted into a GX8 - although I admit that as a camera they were (and are now especially) well respected.

My GX7 is still a camera that I revere - even after a GX85 and GX9.

I would rather the fixed lcd and tiny size bare bones of the GM5 - but then (and luckily) there are may camera body types and sizes in M4/3 for us to choose from