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The Leica M9 is going to be announced on September 9th !

It isnt official, but its been leaked everywhere. For the E-600, or “E-620-lite” Olympus took an E-620 and took some features away, and at the same time dollars off the price tag. The missing features are backlit buttons, aspect ratio control, the 3 art filters not present on an e-450 (pale and light colour, light tone and grainy film) and multi-exposure mode.

For more info see Imaging Resources page. http://www.imaging-resource.com/NEWS/1251694801.html

Source: http://www.business-i.jp/news/business/index.nwc (japanese only, google translation doesn’t work well)

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Some good news for future E-P1 buyers:
Adorama has the Silver E-P1 with 14-42mm lens in sotck.
And amazon has the E-P1 with 17mm f/2.8 Lens and Viewfinder (Silver) in stock

I know you are all waiting for the aftertomorrow Panasonic new camera announcement! To kill some of the waiting time read the next Panasonic camera reviews ;)

Australia Photoreview tested the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ35 and Ephotozine the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX60 .