Panasonic GF1 Announced

[KenjiS]

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0909/09090204panasonicdmcgf1.asp

I like :)

Also announced are a 20mm f/1.7 pancake lens and a Leica 45mm f/2.8 OIS Macro for it...

I actually like the look of it and the little extra viewfinder is a nice touch...looks like the perfect pocket cam :)

[J_TULLAR]

sucks it doesnt have IS in it... but they have lenses for that I guess

[Ephemeral]

The pop-up flash and faster AF makes me wanna get this over the much more stylish Oly EP-1

[KenjiS]

The pop-up flash and faster AF makes me wanna get this over the much more stylish Oly EP-1

Personally i think its better looking than the Olympus..

Also I like the Leica glass for it...theres quite a few nice lenses, The 25mm f/1.4 is supposedly stellar :) [though id have to use an adapter]

Plus theres all that cool Rangefinder glass you can put on this..you can adapt every lens to this baby!

[10megapixel]

The HD video on this camera looks really good. I ran across this little VIDEO (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_IxsxZyIQg&feature=fvw) on You Tube about the GF1 and either the gentleman in the video has really tiny hands or the GF1 is alot bigger than I thought it was. Anyway, looks like a nice camera but it stinks that they don't put IS in the 4/3 bodies.

[KenjiS]

The HD video on this camera looks really good. I ran across this little VIDEO (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_IxsxZyIQg&feature=fvw) on You Tube about the GF1 and either the gentleman in the video has really tiny hands or the GF1 is alot bigger than I thought it was. Anyway, looks like a nice camera but it stinks that they don't put IS in the 4/3 bodies.

Yeh but id take the Panny/Leica glass over the Oly glass personally :) And i like in-lens stabilization more

And the m4/3 bodies do video right, you have to hand that to them, control-wise and everything they're quite a bit ahead of the Canon...[They have AF in movie mode and a dedicated movie lens..]