ePhotozine compared the Olympus E-P2 and the Panasonic GF1. They again forgot to mention the Olympus E-P2 in Body IS advantage (they forgot it also when they made the E-P1 vs GF1 comparison).
Their conclusions? In short: the Olympus E-P2
source: Panasonic.jp
Currently european and japanese markets do have all the different color variants in Stock. In US only amazon has some red and white GF1 in Stock via third-party reseller.
I thought it would be interesting to compare the worldwide Amazon DSLR sales rankings. Please keep in mind that in every country you have different deals. Amazon is also not very popular in Europe and Japan like it is in US. I will show you the TOP 5 DSLR + the 5 most sold Panasonic and Olympus cameras
If you compare the rankings you can notice that:
1) Only Amazon Japan has a Panasonic/Olympus which is in the TOP 5 (On first place the white GF1+20mm lens)
2) In Germany FourThirds cameras are very popular.
3) Olympus E-PL1 preorders are quite low.
Click on the camera name to jump to the amazon camera page
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I am receiving more and more rumors confirming the Panasonic GH1
I know that’s bad news but I suspect the new Panasonic G1 successor will come with new video recording capabilities.
Don’t worry to much I also have some small good news for you!
And what’s really interesting is the data rate of 28 Mbit! But how does this fit 1080p50 in the AVCHD standard? The AVCHD standard data rate is 17 or 24 Mbit. We didn’t get the answer.
Anyway a future Panasonic GH2 camera with 1080p60/50 and 28 Mbit data rate would be definitely an amazing camera which will probably be a worthy (if not more) competitor of the new Canon Rebel T2i
http://media.panasonic.eu/offline/
All offline now!!! Just mantenance? Or new camcorders? Or something else?
UPDATE: I was told that Panasonic will update the website with the new camcorders…
After the well known (and the well appreciated) FourThirds Matching Simulation Olympus developed something new: The Lens comparison tool!
Charles-Axel Pauwels wrote a new app for those wanting to have GF1-E-P1/2 RAW support on Aperture. This app is free!
He just sent me a new email and may Olympus can help us: “Do you have a E-PL1 RAW file sample on which I could do some testing?
Charles.”
Can someone of our readers send us a RAW file of the Olympus E-PL1? Maybe you guys from Olympus? Thanks!
43rumors@gmail.com
