Adorama just published their Olympus E-P1 review

Hands-on image samples and video reviews have been also made by our spanish friends quesabesde.com (click here for the google english translation)

IS THAT THE PANSONIC GF2???
We found a very interesting new Panasonic patent which displays a Panasonic GF1 similar camera with Built-In EVF. Finally a rangefinder styled MicroFourThirds camera!!!
If something is patented it doesn’t mean that it will certainly become real. Anyway in that case we also have our sources confirming that Panasonic is working on a Panasonic GF1 version with with built-in EVF!

Main features:
Built-In EVF
Titlable EVF
The EVF is able to selectively display both moving pictures and still pictures.
The EVF “could” be OLED
Built-in Flash
CMOS sensor

Here some interesting parts of the patent:
- “There has always been a great need for interchangeable lens digital cameras to be made more compact.”
- “However, if an electronic viewfinder is disposed where a conventional optical viewfinder function component used to be disposed, there needs to be the same amount of space above the body mount as when a pentaprism or the like is disposed, and the various parts cannot be disposed efficiently, which hampers efforts at making the camera body smaller.
The technology disclosed here is intended to reduce the size of a camera body.”
- “With this camera body, the electronic viewfinder is disposed beside the body mount. That is, the electronic viewfinder is disposed so that it is not above the body mount, which is relatively large in the up and down direction. Also, the electronic viewfinder is disposed above the shutter drive device, which is relatively small in the up and down direction. This allows the various parts to be disposed more efficiently, so the camera body can be more compact..”
- “The EVF 180 is able to selectively display both moving pictures and still pictures.”
- “The viewfinder image display unit is a device that displays images, and in addition to a liquid crystal monitor, it can be an organic electroluminescence device, an inorganic electroluminescence device, a plasma display panel, or another such device.”
- “The EVF 180 is connected by a rotary shaft 184 so as to be rotatable with respect to the camera body 1. By rotating around the rotary shaft 184, the EVF 180 can assume a state other than the eye level position (first disposition). ”

source: United States Patent Application 20100060771

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Just found something amazing!

Keep following us ok? I am working the article right now and it will take some time. Be patient

UPDATE -> Rumor published here: http://43rumors.com/panasonic-gf2/

DxO Optics pro is a very known software. If you visit that part of the website and select a camera body you will find the Olympus E-460 as option. That camera doesn’t exist in the real (known) world! Could be a mistake so don’t get excited. Anyway I would like to see an updated verison of the actual tiny Olympus E-450. At least that would give FourThirds user the proof that Olympus is still taking care of non-MicroFourThirds customers.

[Thanks...Anonymous ]

Miguel (a dpreview forum user) is currently testing the Olympus E-30. And he says:

“Olympus approached me and gave me all these equipment to use it for a few months.
to answer your question, the lenses really got my attention, also the rep. mentioned a better camera will be announced in Photokina 2010
I like the realistic skin tones on the Olympus so far vs Nikon”

Finally I got some (bad) news from a trusted source. He told me the Panasonic LX3 successor will not be announced soon. He also told me that “the Panasonic LX3 is a camera which is very popular in Europe and US and less in Asia. So we should expect an announcement for Photokina (September).“.

Over one month ago a different trusted source told me about the LX3 successor. He know admitted he received false informations

By the way I am working on new rumor about Fuji Olympus and the Panasonic GH1. I will let you know soon what’s going on!

The Panasonic LX3

Over one month ago one of our trusted sources told us that Panasonic should announce the Panasonic LX3 successor. The Panasonic UK teaser made us believe that Panasonic would announce that camera along the Panasonic G1 successor. As we all have seen this didn’t happen. We don’t know yet when the LX3 successor will come.

Anyway we found this inside the dpreview forum:
According to “Mk7″ (a dpreview forum user) the “Panasonic LX4 is coming this week” and it will come with a new “BSI CMOS” sensor.
This is a very unreliable source but it could have some sense if you consider that the japanese CP+ show starts on March 11…

I ask my sources to tell me if they know something

Panasonic next two lenses will be released in autumn only

via: Joshua Waller (twitter)

UPDATE:
The 14mm lens will be available this summer
The 8mm and 100-300mm lens in autumn!

Finally we were able to put together the right pieces and this should be the Real specs:

Panasonic G2
12 Megapixel sensor (4 channel readout)
Venus Engine HD II
LCD 460K
Touch shutter, Touch MF Assist (5x, 10x magnification) Like the one in use for medium format digital backs
Auto eye sensor
Live View Finder (1,440,000 dots)
AVCHD lite 1280 x 720, 60/50p 17Mbps (The Panasonic GH1 has also 1080p recording. )
(Still image and Movie!) Expressive-Retro-Pure-Elegant-Monochrome-Dynamic Art-Silhouette-Custom (Panasonic “cloned” the Art-Filter options from the Olympus PEN.
3.2 frames/sec

Panasonic G10
LCD 460 dots
Live View Finder (202,000 dots )
Motion JPEG 1280 x 720, 30fps
(Still image and Movie!) Expressive-Retro-Pure-Elegant-Monochrome-Dynamic Art-Silhouette-Custom
3.2 frames/sec

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As we already told you the G10 has no touchscreen and not titlable LCD.

And here to comparison with the G2

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Cool!

Looks like the red and the blue colors are a little different than the RED Panasonic G1 and BLUE Panasonic G1 colors.