Sometimes I seriousely doubt Olympus Marketing  knows what they are doing. For unknown reasons inside the US (unlike in Germany) Olympus  has chosen not to sell an E-P1 kit which includes both the 14-42mm and the 17mm. I agree with Thom Hogan when he says the E-P1‘s success has more to do with the Olympus engineers than the marketing guys.

Read his thoughts about Olympus marketing here:

http://www.dpreview.com/forums/readflat.asp?forum=1022&message=32185287

http://www.dpreview.com/forums/readflat.asp?forum=1022&message=32187249

http://www.dpreview.com/forums/readflat.asp?forum=1022&message=32192110

Please Olympus, explain your reasons!

From biofos.com, a fantastic website.

http://www.biofos.com/mft/ep-1_pre.html

http://www.imaginginsider.com/?p=96492

A lot of people are trying out the E-P1 at various Olympus events. And normally they share their experiences in various Olympus fora.
One of them is Chris who had the chance to play with the E-P1 in Osaka. Read his post on dpreview:
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/readflat.asp?forum=1022&thread=32190736

http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/

There are not many news today. Finally we can take some break ;)

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Have a nice weekend!

From two different 43rumors sources:

The LX line will not merge into the MicroFourThirds Sytem. Expect a LX3 successor for the Photokina 2010 and the first compact MicroFourThirds camera much earlier. it will probably open new nomenclature.

We are still months away from a Panasonic compact MicroFourThirds announcement. May I can give Panasonic some advise?

Make the camera even smaller as the E-P1! …with a nice OLED screen….and if you wanna become my personal superhero company find the place to put the EVF!

P.S.: Sorry no room for built in flash in my tiny camera :(