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Panasonic Lumix G9 II

Panasonic Lumix G9 II

Mirrorless · Micro Four Thirds · released 2023-09-12
Lowest now
$1,219
Good price -36% vs MSRP
See prices at 4 sources (jumps down this page)
MSRP at launch
$1,899
Sep 2023
Inventory
22
across 4 sources

Near the 90-day low

How we compute this

Close to the 90-day low. Within $40 of the 90-day low of $1,179. 64% of the $1,899 MSRP. Prices are down 3.0% over the last 30 days.

Lowest now
$1,219
MSRP
$1,899
vs MSRP
-36%
90-day low
$1,179
All-time low
$1,179 (Jul 9, 2026)
30-day trend
-3.0%
Observed across 4 sources · 81 days of history in last 90 · Methodology

Latest pricing by source

Each row is a direct observation from the seller. eBay links are affiliate links. How this works.
Source Condition Price Listings Observed Link
bh
good
→ good
$1,727
1 Observed yesterday view listing
ebay
used
→ good
$1,596
ships free
1 Observed yesterday view listing
keh
excellent plus
→ excellent
$1,305
1 Observed 2d ago view listing
keh
like new minus
→ mint
$1,305
9 Observed yesterday view listing
mpb
excellent
→ excellent
$1,219
5 Observed yesterday view listing
mpb
like new
→ mint
$1,279
5 Observed yesterday view listing
Buy new on Amazon (affiliate) New from Amazon. Used prices below.

Price history

One point per day per (source, grade) pair, connected with lines. Hue marks the source; lightness within a hue marks the condition (darker = better grade). The dashed line is launch MSRP.

See Methods notes #1.1, #1.2, #1.3, #1.4.

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Specs

Brand
Panasonic
Family
Panasonic Lumix G
Category
body
Body type
Mirrorless
Mount
Micro Four Thirds
Sensor
MFT
Megapixels
25.2 MP
Lens type
—
Sensor family
Panasonic 25MP Four Thirds CMOS
Autofocus
Phase Detection
AF system
Panasonic Phase Hybrid AF
IBIS
5-axis 8-stop
Weather sealed
Yes
Max video
5.7K60
Max native ISO
ISO 25,600
Weight
658 g
Dimensions
134 × 102 × 90 mm
Body material
magnesium alloy
Released
2023-09-12
Status
current

Notes

manual MSRP

Editorial review

The first "modern" camera I used, it was a revelation.

4.5 / 5 Recommended

I borrowed the G9 II for two weeks through Panasonic's Lumix rental program and it reset my sense of what a modern camera can do. The phase-detect autofocus got me my first bird photos, the Leica 12-60mm it came with handled low light I'd have skipped with my Canon 80D, and it fit my hand better than any body I've held. A deal on an OM-1 got my money, but the G9 II stays on my tracked list. I may switch back when prices align. Or I will just have two, competitive MFT bodies (don’t tell my wife).

Phase-detect autofocus locks fast and stays locked; it got me my first keeper bird photos
The best grip of any camera I've held, and I liked my Canon 80D's grip a lot
Stabilization plus the Leica 12-60mm made low light doable instead of a gamble
A full-size body, so the Micro Four Thirds space savings only show up in the lenses
An obvious camera; people know you're taking photos
By Ryan Hoffman · Published Jul 7, 2026 · First-hand · Read the full review →

Computational features

High-Res Shot
100MP
Handheld Hi-Res
100MP handheld
Live Composite
Focus Stacking
merged in-camera
Focus Bracket
Pro Capture
SH Pre-Burst up to 75 fps
HDR
Multi-Exposure

Closest non-Olympus body for the full computational suite: pixel-shift, handheld high-res, Live View Composite, focus stacking, and pre-burst.

Autofocus & action

Birds-in-flight keeper rate

#20 on Mirrorless Comparison's AF ranking
82%
AF score (sharp keepers), 96% counting slightly soft
82%
Drive score at 60 fps (49/60 sharp)
60 fps: 82% (49/60) 20 fps: 82% (16/20)

Birds-in-flight keeper rates come from Mirrorless Comparison. They shoot thousands of frames per body in the field and count how many come back sharp, which is the most useful hands-on autofocus test for wildlife we've found. Go read the full birds-in-flight rankings and their per-camera field notes.

See the full birds-in-flight test at Mirrorless Comparison →
AF system
Hybrid (phase + contrast)
Focus points
779 areas
Subject detection
Human eye/face, Animal, Vehicle, Airplane, Train
Burst (mechanical)
10 fps
Burst (electronic)
75 fps
Buffer
~200 RAW+JPEG at 60fps
Pre-burst capture
Pre-burst recording
Card slots
2 (Dual SD UHS-II)
Sensor readout
Standard CMOS

First G-series MFT with on-sensor PDAF; 60fps AFC / 75fps AFS electronic shutter.

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Measured dynamic range

Bill Claff's lab measurements of how much shadow-to-highlight range this sensor holds, plotted across the full ISO range. Higher is more latitude to recover a dark frame.

See the curve on Photons to Photos

Measurements by William J. Claff. We link rather than reprint them.

Sample photos

Real-world photos taken with this camera, grouped by EXIF data on Flickr.

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Methods

How we compute each section

References on each chart link down here. More notes will land as new sections grow.

1. Price history

#1.1 · Grade buckets
Each seller publishes their own raw condition labels (e.g. "Excellent+", "Like new minus", "Bargain"). Those are normalized to a small bucket set: mint, excellent, good, fair, poor, and unknown. The "Latest pricing by source" table above shows both the raw label and the normalized bucket so you can audit any individual mapping.
#1.2 · Missing days
A point is only drawn on a day when a snapshot existed for that (source, grade) pair. Lines connect across gaps so a series with sparse sampling still reads as a single trend, but absence of a point does not mean a stockout: it means we didn't see a listing at that grade that day.
#1.3 · Color encoding
Hue carries the source: terracotta = mpb, sage = keh, cobalt = B&H, honey = ebay. Lightness within a hue carries the condition: darker means a better grade (mint and excellent are darkest; poor is lightest). The dashed ink line is launch MSRP, included as a reference even though it isn't a price observation.
#1.4 · Shipping
Every price on this page is the item price, the number the seller puts on the listing. Where a seller quotes shipping we show it underneath as a separate line and add it up for you, because on used marketplaces it is not small: a lens listed at $189 can carry $74 of shipping, which is 39% on top. Dealers (mpb, keh, B&H) ship domestically free or flat and we do not ask them for a figure. Where eBay quotes nothing the row says so, because some listings calculate shipping from your address and we cannot know it; on the 2026-08-23 crawl that was about a third of eBay listings, and most of them were US sellers rather than overseas ones. Price history charts the item price throughout, so a series stays comparable to its own past.
#1.5 · Lenses sold in several mounts
A third-party lens like the Sigma 35mm f/1.4 Art is one optic in a dozen mounts, and the mounts don't sell for the same money, so each one gets its own page here. Listings are less tidy: plenty of them read "Sigma 35mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art Lens" and never say which mount that is. We reject a listing whose title names a different mount, but a title that names none can't be contradicted, and we keep it rather than leave the page blank. That is a deliberate trade of precision for coverage, and it only applies to lenses carrying the note above the price table. If the exact mount matters to you, open the listing.