The price of GH2 on ebay is the rise it seems, a used GH2 body was sold for $600 recently

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Last week I put a GH2 on hold w/Samy's Camera. The price is $679.00 new body only. Yesterday, a friend sold me his brand new never used same for $550 (I tried to talk him into keeping it. He said he never used it.) Meaning, the on hold Samy's GH2, will be on hold until tomorrow, and I won't be buying it, unless I'm really crazy.

If anyone here wants it, you can shoot me a PM and I'll give your the order number and sales reps name, so you can have what is perhaps one of the last reliable dealer new GH2 camera's around.

Let's put it this way with my GH2 and contemplating buying a GH3 I figured I was fine, liked the GH2 better, etc. When my producer offered to buy me a GH3...let's just say my opinion changed somewhat haha.

@Shaveblog "The metric system is the tool of the devil! My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it." --Grandpa Simpson

Until we see a GH3 hacked, we are not going to know its full capabilities or limitations. And until Panny makes enough of them to sell, and gets a chance to do their own initial firmware updates we can't really do much more than complain about SD card access door problems.

One thing we have learned is that contrary to the fact that we all keep telling each other that we are a minority and Panasonic really designs and sells the top of the line cameras to Harriet Housecoat and Joe Sixpack for vacation photos, this time it was pro and semipro users that snapped them up. At $1300 without a lens, and selling out original production based on anticipation, rather than recommendations and seeing them in stores, I think WE bought all of them.

Which is just as well, since they seemed to have listened to what WE wanted, and incorporated most of our wish list.

But since all of the GH3s are gone, and Panny has admitted that they aren't making any more GH2s, what ARE they making? Are we just waiting for the slow boat to get here?

In the meantime, I have two "extra" GH2s and I'll start the bidding at one MILLion dollars...

The GH2 has a lot going for it that the GH3 doesn't quite have. It has similar quality to the GH3 (better in some areas), it's smaller, it has multi-aspect sensor, less moire, Francis Ford Coppola's approval, and of course, the hack.

Actually the GH3 has not taken off in a big way. I know people are still looking for a GH2. I put my set on sale just to test the market. People were actually interested at $900, body alone. Looks like we have a scarce commodity in our hands.

Something weird happened with GH2 prices today. I noticed that Amazon.com had set a "buy" price as of March 16th of $600. Yes, Amazon is offering to buy my GH2s for $600USD each.

AND Amazon has only one new one for sale -- for over $1,800! Used ones with and without lenses are going for $799 to $2500.

So, all of the new GH2s have been sold and the GH3 remains sold out. I feel like I am in the desert with the last case of bottled water.

Do you think the average price of a used or new GH2 will rise slightly due to the scarcity?

Chatting with a Panasonic rep at wppi the other day- it's official- they're done making the gh2! Moving to support the gh3. Which is dumb because thy cant make them fast enough to keep them in stock everywhere. The life cycle of cameras is so stupidly short these days. When did the gh2 come out? 2 yrs now?

I just grabbed last month new GH2 body with small OIS lens for bargain price :-) glad I did it

I found out the hard way, I ordered one the other day, the website said it was in stock, they even took my money when I ordered it. Three days later and hadn't heard anything regarding shipping so I emailed the site I purchased it from, and they contacted me back saying that it was discontinued.

@pundit, does starting to record them using a remote trigger create the iso bug? I didn't realize that. I believe if you search the forums Dr.Dave has written about his 3d work with 2x gh2s and has advice symultareously triggering record.