Finally big european shops have the Panasonic GF1 available for preoder.
In all Pixmaniashops the listed shipping date is October 16. They have the black silver and white model (no red model in all pixmania shops!) Click on your country to see the GF1 product list.
Many people is talking about the new Panasonic GF1 and we thought we should summarize you the most interesting forum threads:
1) Japanese are getting the Panasonic GF1 as first and here we have some first GF1 images: http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/readflat.asp?forum=1041&thread=33148117 and here: http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/readflat.asp?forum=1041&thread=33155455
2) Here you have a picture of the GF1 with Leica lenses: http://www.flickr.com/photos/philou95/3952449825/ Generally you can find many pictures here: http://www.flickr.com/search/?ss=2&w=all&q=GF1&m=text#page=0
3) First US people is receiving their GF1 directly from Panasonic. Amazon
4) We havn’t got any info from Europe. I still havn’t heard of any european who got the GF1. Strange that Amazon Germany
Amazon UK
amazon France
Amazon just sent me following email:
“Estimated arrival date: October 20 2009 – November 19 2009”
If you order the Panaosnic GF1
UPDATE: First lucky people today received their GF1 via amazon US !
Some of them who preordered the GF1 via amazon US are reporting that first shipment should begin today
Source: http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/readflat.asp?forum=1041&thread=33135840
Amazon US:
Panasonic GF1 with 20mm f/1.7 Aspherical Lens
Panasonic GF1 with 14-45mm Lens
Panasonic 20mm f/1.7 Aspherical Pancake Lens for Micro Four Thirds Interchangeable Lens Cameras
Panasonic 45mm f/2.8 Aspherical MEGA OIS Lens for Micro Four Thirds Interchangeable Lens Cameras
Panasonic DMW-LVF1 Viewfinder (probably early October?)
Zone-10 speculates with a release of new Panasonic sensor before February. The sensor could be implemented in next Panasonic and Olympus High-End cameras. It should have 14,7 Megapixel.
Note: Zone-10 predictions are usually very close to the reality!
Now amazon is saying that thePanasonic Lumix DMC-GF1 camera with 14-45mm Lens
UPDATE: Amazon US could begin to ship their first GF1 cameras tomorrow…
J.W. has taken a deep look on new Olympus patents at http://appft.uspto.gov/. J.W. found at leats 10 Olympus patents having to do with HDR processing. Some of them are software based HDR solutions and some of them sensor based HDR patents (which sounds really interesting). Panasonic developed a similar sensor based solution (read more here: https://43rumors.com/missing-panasonicsensor/) .
J.W. writes “The sensor based solutions have everything from an ISO HDR form, to two seperated timed redouts from the sensor, to two and I belive 3 types/size/sensivity pixel arangements. Obviously they are working very diligently on increaseing the DR of the imaging sensors.” What sounds really interesting is J.W.’s next statement “They are not apparently just relying on “kodak” promises of future sensors anymore.“. I asked him…What? Olympus had/have the idea to implement Kodak sensor on future cameras? His answer: “As for the Kodak comment, that was based on the rumored promises by Kodak to Olympus on the future sensor developments. Promises that the sensor tech would be advance fast enough that ccd 4/3 sensors would be just as good as the larger format cmos in a couple years. Also afaik from previos Olympus statments they are not tied to Pani for sensors, they tested several brand sensors for the E-3 body.” Remember that’s just rumors nothing else! We really don’t know if Olympus will implement such features in future cameras but we really like the idea the rumor could one day become true!
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