As you know one month ago SLR magic announced a new lens with Micro Four Thirds mount, the [shoplink 22155 ebay]11mm f/1.4[/shoplink]. The list price of $209.99 seemed too high for many of our readers and it’s good to see that SLRmagic recognized that and lowered the prize down to $129.99.It now has a different design with different MC coating to exclude the lens hood. It has a Micro Four Thirds mount (you don’t need any adapter). You can see some image samples taken with the lens on [shoplink 22154 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink]. You see there is a lot of vignetting you have to deal with (they call that toy effect). Those waiting for a high quality lens in that focal length should wait for the Olympus 12mm f/2.0 lens. But the SLRmagic lens is many times cheaper than the future Oly lens.

Preorders are also available on that link on [shoplink 22155 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].

If you are looking to get a Fuji X100 you might take a look at BHphoto (Click here). UPDATE: Now out of Stock :(
There is an interesting note at Amazon US (Click here): “Note on Availability: This item is in high demand and supplies from the manufacturer are limited. Its availability will fluctuate, and if the item is not currently in stock, we cannot guarantee that we will receive additional quantities in a timely manner. We will not charge your credit card until we ship the product.”

P.S.: Photographer Michael Carpentier compared the Fuji X100 and the Panasonic GF1 camera. The original article has been written in french but click here to read the google english translation. You might be surprised to read that he considers the [shoplink 14828]GF1[/shoplink] a better choice than the X100. Image quality difference is minimal, and he is particularly disappointed with the Fuji’s lens performance at f/2.0. There is also a huge problem with focusing at short distance. There are also other quirks with the X100 but also some positive notes. Anyway the small image quality difference in favour of the X100 doesn’t justify the huge price difference. And if you really need that bit more of IQ you can still go for the Sony NEX-5!

To bad the GF1 is out of production. Click those links to see if you can find them at [shopcountry 14828].

After Amazon (Click here) also Adorama (Click here) is accepting preorders! They say “Delivery scheduled to start June 2011.”

And one more thing. One single GH2 camera is in Stock at Amazon (Click here). My bet is that it will be sold within 3 minutes from now :)

P.S.: Here in Europe preorders are only accepted by Amazon UK (Click here).

UPDATE: Now out of Stock!

The GH2 with 14-140mm lens WAS in Stock at Amazon US (Click here!). Sold by Amazon itself. They HAD only 4 left in stock but more on the way! Hope this is a good sign for the new G3 too (which should be in Stock in July). You can preorder the G3 at Amazon US (Click here).

P.S.: There is a $27 price drop on the Olympus XZ-1 at Amazon (CLick here).

The Panasonic GH2 with 14-140mm lens is in Stock at Amazon (Click here).
UPDATE: Sold out sorry!

A couple of weeks ago I found a nice store named Olympusmarket that sells Olympus refurbished cameras and lenses. They sell in Europe only and have pretty good deals! I didn’t find any similar stores for Asia or US. Ans I also didn’t find any similar  eBay-store with refurbished Panasonic cameras. Those are the latest auctions:

1) There are ten 14-150mm Micro Four Thirds lenses for 399 Euro ([shoplink 21953 ebay]Click here to see them on Olympusmarket[/shoplink])
2) The Four Thirds 40-150mm lens ([shoplink 21954 ebay]Click here[/shoplink])
3) Silver E-PL1 body ([shoplink 21955 ebay]Click here[/shoplink])
4) Silver E-P1 with kit lens ([shoplink 21956 ebay]Click here[/shoplink])
5) Black Olympus E-P2 body ([shoplink 21957 ebay]Click here[/shoplink])

P.S.: I already bought two E-P1 cameras at Olympusmarket (one white for 201 Euro and one silver for 232 Euro).