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Panasonic Lumix S 85mm f/1.8

lens · L-mount · released 2022-03-01
Lowest now
$314
Good price -48% vs MSRP
See prices at 4 sources (jumps down this page)
MSRP at launch
$599
Mar 2022
Inventory
38
across 4 sources

Typical pricing right now

How we compute this

Today's price sits in the middle of its recent range. The 90-day window runs from $299 to roughly today's $314. 52% of the $599 MSRP. Prices are down 4.6% over the last 30 days.

Lowest now
$314
MSRP
$599
vs MSRP
-48%
90-day low
$299
All-time low
$299 (Aug 15, 2026)
30-day trend
-4.6%
Observed across 4 sources · 41 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
$408
1 Observed 4d ago view listing
ebay
used
→ good
$332
shipping not quoted
5 Observed yesterday view listing
keh
excellent
→ excellent
$342
1 Observed yesterday view listing
keh
like new minus
→ mint
$405
1 Observed yesterday view listing
mpb
excellent
→ excellent
$314
17 Observed yesterday view listing
mpb
like new
→ mint
$359
13 Observed yesterday view listing
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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 S
Category
lens
Body type
Mount
L-mount
Sensor
Megapixels
Lens type
prime
Focal length
85mm
Aperture
f/1.8
Weight
355 g
Filter thread
67mm
Length
82 mm
Diameter
74 mm
Construction
Released
2022-03-01
Status
current

Notes

F1.8 prime series; shipped spring 2022 (month precision, MSRP approximate).

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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.