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Panasonic Lumix GM5

Panasonic Lumix GM5

Mirrorless · Micro Four Thirds · released 2014-09-15
Lowest now
$1,249
Above MSRP +39% vs MSRP
See prices at 2 sources (jumps down this page)
MSRP at launch
$899
Sep 2014
Inventory
7
across 2 sources

Selling at or above MSRP

How we compute this

The used market is asking the $899 launch price or more. No discount right now, which usually means a discontinued or hard-to-find body trading on demand. We've seen this body as low as $856 on Sep 7, 2026.

Lowest now
$1,249
MSRP
$899
vs MSRP
+39%
90-day low
$856
All-time low
$856 (Sep 7, 2026)
30-day trend
+45.2%
Observed across 2 sources · 79 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
ebay
used
→ good
$1,314
ships free
1 Observed yesterday view listing
mpb
good
→ good
$1,249
2 Observed yesterday view listing
mpb
excellent
→ excellent
$1,349
4 Observed yesterday view listing

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
Category
body
Body type
Mirrorless
Mount
Micro Four Thirds
Sensor
MFT
Megapixels
16 MP
Lens type
—
Sensor family
Panasonic 16MP Four Thirds Live MOS
Autofocus
Depth-from-Defocus
AF system
Panasonic DFD contrast AF
IBIS
no
Weather sealed
No
Max video
1080p60
Max native ISO
ISO 25,600
Weight
211 g
Dimensions
99 × 60 × 36 mm
Body material
magnesium alloy
Released
2014-09-15
Status
discontinued

Notes

Smallest MFT body with EVF

Autofocus & action

AF system
Contrast detect
Focus points
23 areas
Subject detection
Human face
Burst (mechanical)
5.8 fps
Buffer
~7 RAW+JPEG
Pre-burst capture
No
Card slots
1 (Single SD UHS-I)
Sensor readout
Standard CMOS

Added built-in EVF over GM1; 16MP sensor; single SD slot.

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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.