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Panasonic Lumix S1

Panasonic Lumix S1

Mirrorless · L-mount · released 2019-02-01
Lowest now
$749
Steep discount -70% vs MSRP
See prices at 4 sources (jumps down this page)
MSRP at launch
$2,499
Feb 2019
Inventory
16
across 4 sources

Well above the 90-day low

How we compute this

Today's price sits well above the recent low. Today's price runs 69% above the 90-day low of $444 (seen Jul 31, 2026). 30% of the $2,499 MSRP. Prices have been steady this month.

Lowest now
$749
MSRP
$2,499
vs MSRP
-70%
90-day low
$444
All-time low
$444 (Jul 31, 2026)
30-day trend
+1.4%
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
$1,600
1 Observed yesterday view listing
ebay
used
→ good
$879
ships free
5 Observed yesterday view listing
keh
excellent plus
→ excellent
$1,020
3 Observed yesterday view listing
mpb
excellent
→ excellent
$749
3 Observed yesterday view listing
mpb
good
→ good
$769
2 Observed yesterday view listing
mpb
like new
→ mint
$879
2 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 S
Category
body
Body type
Mirrorless
Mount
L-mount
Sensor
Full Frame
Megapixels
24.2 MP
Lens type
—
Sensor family
Panasonic FF 24MP BSI (S1/S1H/S5)
Autofocus
Depth-from-Defocus
AF system
Panasonic DFD contrast AF
IBIS
5-axis 5.5-stop
Weather sealed
Yes
Max video
4K60
Max native ISO
ISO 51,200
Weight
1021 g
Dimensions
149 × 110 × 97 mm
Body material
magnesium alloy
Released
2019-02-01
Status
current

Notes

manual MSRP: Body only US launch

Computational features

High-Res Shot
96MP
Focus Stacking
merged in-camera
Focus Bracket
HDR
Multi-Exposure

24MP full-frame with tripod High Resolution Mode (96MP) and focus stacking.

Autofocus & action

AF system
DfD (contrast)
Focus points
225 areas
Subject detection
Human eye/face, Animal
Burst (mechanical)
9 fps
Pre-burst capture
6K/4K Photo pre-burst
Card slots
2 (XQD + SD UHS-II)
Sensor readout
Standard CMOS

24MP full-frame; 9fps AFS / 6fps AFC; DfD with eye/face/animal detection; XQD + SD dual slots.

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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.

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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.