Meanwhile the french website clubic.com tested the new Panasonic GF2 and the new 14mm and 12.5mm 3D lens. They posted lot of videos and image samples. They like the camera but do miss the manual controls from the GF1.

P.S.: As you know the GF1 has been discontinued so this is one of the very few deals that are ongoing now: BHphoto (Click here) has the GF1+14-42mm lens in Stock for $649 (Offer ends 01/29/2011).

Good news folks. It looks like we can soon get the new Panasonic GF2. Amazon is accepting preorders and Adorama has the body only version too!
– Preorder the black GF2+14mm lens at Amazon (Click here)
– Preorder the red GF2+14mm lens at Amazon (Click here)
– Preorder the silver GF2+14mm lens at Amazon (Click here)
– Preorder the white GF2+14mm lens at Amazon (Click here)
– The GF2 + 14-42mm kit can not be preorderd (Click here)

You can also preorder the GF2 at Adorama (Click here). They have also the GF2 body only available for preorder (Click here)!!!

There are two status changes at Amazon:
– The black Panasonic GH2 +14-42mm lens now “ships within 1 to 2 months” at Amazon (Click here).
– The Olympus XZ-1 is “Temporarily out of stock” at Amazon (Click here).

And last but not least the amazing Panasonic 7-14mm lens is now in Stock for an interesting price: $792 at Amazon (Click here).

dance and fast lenses (GH2 + 20mm 1.7, voigtländer 25mm 0.95, 35mm 1.4, 50mm 1.1, kern-switar 26mm 1.1) from Seb Farges on Vimeo.

I have bad news: The Nokton lens will not be available for the next months! It is completely sold OUT! Cameraquest just updated the availability status: “The new Voigtlander 25/.95’s will be in short supply. Cosina Voigtlander seems to have hit a nerve with customer demand, as orders to the factory far exceeded the first production run. Cosina was only able to fill half of my initial 25/.95 order. My November and December shipments of Micro 4/3 Voigtlander 25/.95 lenses were sold out BEFORE arriving at CameraQuest. My 3rd 25/.95 shipment is expected in February. The factory has not been able to meet the demand. My back order with the factory exceeds my 25/.95 deposits, however I can not predict how many 25/.95’s I will receive in February. That depends upon both lens production and the total factory 25/.95 orders received.”

And yesterday Adorama removed the Voigtländer preorder page…Click here to see….an empty page :)

The only good news that I can give you is that there are a few [shoplink 15659]lenses in acution on eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].

UPDATE: Now sold out!!!

There were four GH2 + 14-140mm kits in Stock at Amazon (Click here)! Price is $1,456.77 (which is $43 less than the original price). This is the first time that kit lens is in Stock in USA! Unbelievable or not?

Reminder: The GF2 is in Stock at Amazon (Click here) and Adorama (Click here).

After Fuji X100 at Adorama (Click here) also BHphoto (Click here) is accepting preorders on the new Fuji X100 camera (Found via ThePhoBlographer).

Panasonic US has a super deal on the GH1. Take a look for yourself: http://www2.panasonic.com

And Amazon has three interesting lens deals:
– Panasonic 7-14mm f/4.0 for $816 at Amazon (Click here)…which is the lowest price I have ever seen.
– Panasonic 45mm f/2.8 macro for $702 at Amazon (Click here).
– Panasonic Lumix 100-300mm f/4.0-5.6 for $543 at Amazon (Click here).

You can now preorder the Fuji X100 at Adorama (Click here). And finally we have an official price: $1,199.00! If only that camera would have a Micro Four Thirds mount! :)

Other US deals:
Panasonic Lumix 14mm f/2.5 G Aspherical Lens for $370 at Amazon (Click here).
Panasonic Lumix 100-300mm f/4.0-5.6 for 549 at Amazon (Click here).
Panasonic DMC-GH1 with 14-140mm lens for $999 at Amazon (Click here).

Olympus is as usual much faster than Panasonic in shipping new products. Unlike the Panasonic GH2 (only the silver version is in Stock at Adorama) the new Olympus E-PL2 is already in Stock at [shoplink 19094]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink] two weeks only after the announcement! It’s sold by an eBay Powerseller from Hong Kong which has more than ten of them in Stock. And Amazon US has changed the status from “preorder” to “temporarily out of Stock” which usually means that they will have them in Stock very soon.
Panasonic, you should take a lesson from Olympus on how to shorten the rime between the announcement and the real delivery of new products ;)

Pre order the Olympus E-PL2 at Amazon, Adorama, Amazon DE, Amazon FR,
And the Olympus XZ-1 at Amazon, Adorama, Amazon DE, Amazon FR and Amazon UK.