US citizen are not so lucky with Panasonic stuff like europeans. After 5 months it is still difficoult to find the highly rewarded Panasonic 20mm lens in Stock with a the “normal” price ($399).
UPDATE_
Just received an email from a 43rumors reader: “I keep noticing you mention that Amazon US is out of stock of the GF1 w 20mm. While this remains true, in my experience they fill orders at the low price fairly fast.
I placed an order on the evening of Jan 12. The unit was supposedly backordered for 3-5 weeks. The product page at the $899 price tends to shift between 3 – 5 and 2 – 4 weeks. My GF1 arrived in TX on Jan 26. Very happy to have waited and saved the money.”
The teaser clearly shows a new MFT camera and a new compact camera!
“Panasonic, a leading imaging brand, is pleased to announce that for the very first time it will attend this years Focus on Imaging show held at the NEC Birmingham from 7th-10th March.” Panasonic UK
We already told you two new cameras will come. Probably the successor and a TZ or LX compact camera.
UPDATE: This are the G1 and TZ7 silhuettes? UPDATE2: Drew S. noticed something really interesting: “The silhouette of the new Panasonic compact camera shows the mode control dial to the left of the shutter button as you face the camera. The dial on the newly announced TZ (zs7/tz10) is to the right of the shutter button. So it appears that this is not from the TZ series.”
The Leica D-Lux 4
According to Leicarumors the upcoming Leica C-Lux 4 and V-Lux 2 cameras will be produced by Panasonic. That’s interesting because the partnership could also be continued with the Panasonic LX3 / Leica D-Lux 4 successor.
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Apple released Aperture 3 which finally suports the LX3, G1 and GH1 RAW. BUT they “forgot” to support the Panasonic GF1 and Olympus E-P1/E-P2 RAW files!
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Here’s your chance to be one of the first in Australia to test drive the brand new Olympus E-PL1 (OlympusImagingAustralia)
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Photoshopped white E-P1 with the new Olympus 9-18mm lens (Thanks Fabio Bianchi!)
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Olympus E-P2 First Look on digitalcamerareview
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Panasonic Lumix GF1 feat. Micro Zuiko 17 mm f2.8 Pancake Gallery (dpinterface)