If you don’t need the video features of the GH1 be smart and buy the G1. It costs you far less and the image quality is more or less the same as the GH1. Amazon.com is selling the blue Panasonic G1 with 14-45 mm lens and the red Panasonic G1 with 14-45 mm lens with heavy discount.

If you are looking for small sized lenses a good option is the classic FourThirds Olympus 25mm f/2.8 Pancake Lens. You have to use the adapter ring!
The Panasonic 45-200mm f/4.0-5.6 is the only MicroFourThirds cheap tele zoom lens available to date. It is a good lens for his price!

I found ONE single Fotodiox Olympus OM – OM 4/3 Adapter for my old E-420.

Having some M-mount lenses I seeked Novoflex Adapters:

Amazon Germany has finally the full range of Novoflex Adapter. In Amazon US I only found the Novoflex Adapter to Mount Leica M Lenses on a Micro Four Thirds. And amazon UK has only two Novoflex adapters.

Here we are! You can now choose your preferred zoom lenses. Please note that the proposed focal lenghts and apertures are indicative.

How to vote:

1) You can select a maximum of three zoom lenses.

2) You can vote one single time only. Your IP-address will be stored. We can delete your vote if you want to redo the voting.

3) Feel free to add some possible focal lenghts by commenting this post. I will quickly add your proposed lens as option inside the poll.

4) The results will be sent directly to Olympus and Panasonic!

Please invite everyone to vote! More we are more Olympus and Panasonic will take us seriously!!!

UPDATE: We are close to 1.000 voters. Monday I will make the evaluation and send the letter to Olympus and Panasonic.

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Since old greeks time professionist debates about Raw vs Jpg shooting. Platon on the left clearly signs you “high-quality” matters. Aristoteles answers him “stay on earth, do you think we have always time to process images which rarely gets visible better compared to the in camera generated jpg’s?“

May you can get a litle closer to the answer you seek by reading the RAW vs JPG test. It is a short but very interesting test that I found inside the E-P1 forum. Hope it helps all the present and future owners to make the choice.

If you don’t need the video features of the GH1 be smart and buy the G1. It costs you far less and the image quality is more or less the same as the GH1. Amazon.com is selling the blue Panasonic G1 with 14-45 mm lens and the red Panasonic G1 with 14-45 mm lens with heavy discount.

Worldwide shops are applying discounts:

Pixmania Germany: PANASONIC Lumix DMC-G1 schwarz + asphärisches Objektiv 14-45mm F/3.5-5.6 Mega O.I.S.
Pixmania Italy: G1 con obiettivo 14-45mm

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In case you missed it the E-P1 has been reviewed at digicamreview.com

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Some more E-P1 impressios written by Lloyd Chambers

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And finally Digital Camera HQ reviewed a non E-P1 camera ;) …the Olympus TOUGH 8000 Waterproof compact camera

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UPDATE: k-rumors.com posted the Samsung NX specs!

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That’s a good publicity message!

Havn’t seen such a good result for Olympus since looooooong time!

Source: BNC Ranking data for the week of June 29 – July 5

It appears the camera is real and will be announced soon. Samsung is going to be the first MicroFourThirds competitor. I found some rumors here: k-rumors.com

And here the text of the rumor:

I heard this from a attender of the trade show in Korea.

He said NX10 was displayed with Canon 500D and Panasonic G1 (GH1??) side by side.
There was a comparison chart, but most part of the chart is hidden under papers.

He got impressed NX10 becomes fatter than the mock-up shown in PMA 09, but it is still very small – actually he felt it is the smallest one among 3 bodies.

It has best rear-display and shortest response time for user actions.

He mentioned NX10 seems to have almost equivalent AF speed to what dSLR has.

He saw 3 lenses for NX10 include a prime lens. The prime lens is very thin, and it will have faster speed than Olympus 17mm pancake lens.

Also he mentioned about the price, he understands that Samsung will set aggressively NX10 price. Since Samsung designed/developed most parts of NX10 by alone, Samsung has more room to control the price. It will be definitely less than its competitors. Even it could be unexpected price.

Samsung is very serious about new NX series now.

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From REDFOX:

UPDATE:
Rumors are becoming more frequent and more specific and may this is a proofe that soon (July 17th?) the camera will be released!

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I got some information, no official, but I hope somebody confirm it.

-The prime lens is a (large aperture wide angle fixed) 35mm (35mm equivalent), maybe a 24mm APS

-The big zoom is not a telezoom (no confirm yet) this is a zoom like 18-200 or 18-250mm
-Nothing about the standard zoom

-These lenses has double focus system: contrast AF motor-assisted and manual focus limited. The second switch (the first one is for IS) allow to use the manual focus like SLR lenses.
-EVF is not completely ready, but it is funtional in NX10 preproduction model.

-Samsung plans release 2 new lenses in December, one zoom and one fixed. (Samsung we are waiting for camera now…)
-NX have been slightly redesigned specially the grip and EVF area

-Wll have a K-mount adapter (AF?, I don´t know) and M-mount, but they won´t be release with the camera

No picture until now…

Source: http://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/pentax-news-rumors/65674-so-its-july-7th-where-samsung-4.html