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Worth upgrading gx7?

Started Aug 6, 2021 | Questions thread
OP h00pla New Member • Posts: 5
Re: Worth upgrading gx7?

stemcell wrote:

What about the GX-8? in my humble opinion the GX-8 is worthy upgrade to the GX-7. I have both cameras and love them. I value your opinion.

That was my initial thought before posting on here.

I have looked into some of the older models like GX8 and G85. Near me there seems to be bad pricing on these used models and very little available and the ones that are are over 1 hour drive each way.

I can get the GX-9 for $100-200 more than what people are asking for their used gx-8.

Same with the g85 vs g95, about $125 difference.

Right now the GX9 and G95 are $999 CAD new w/ lens. G9 is about $1200 (body only), and had seen one on sale for 1119.

I have contacted a couple sellers but they are not budging on price. I would rather pay $100-200 more and not have to deal with the hassle. If their was a bigger cost savings I would probably look into it more, although I do have alerts still up on marketplace.

I find the pricing on the older Oly models to be a bit better on the used marketplace. But i would need to do some more research on the differences between each series to see how much of an upgrade they are compared to the GX7 as most of the oly's are 2 generations behind

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