Amazon.com has the 20mm f/1.7 lens in Stock and you also get 55 free prints :)

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Amazon has the Panasonic LUMIX G 20mm f/1.7 Lens in Stock and the price is finally the right on ($399, sold by amazon! ).

And together with the lens you “…get 55 Free Prints: Purchase this or other qualifying Camera, Photo and Video products from Amazon.com and get 55 free prints, including 50 4 x 6-inch, four 5 x 7-inch, and one 8 x 10-inch, valued at $15.45–from Shutterfly. Applies only to purchases of products sold by Amazon.com, and does not apply to products sold by third-party merchants and other sellers through the Amazon.com site. Offer valid through November 30, 2009. (amazon text) ”

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Amazon UK has also the Panasonic Lumix G 20mm/F1.7 Pancake Lens in Stock!

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(FT1) UPDATED -> FAKE -> Olympus E-P2 higher resolution image

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Found here: http://e-p1.net/index.php?topic=891.0
It is probably a fake. The hotshoe is the same as the and the real E-P2 leaked image shows a higher Hotshoe on the E-P2!
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P.S.: Amazon.com has the Panasonic LUMIX G 20mm f/1.7 Lens in Stock!.
And also amazon UK has the Panasonic 20mm f/1.7 Lens in Stock!

More photoshopped E-P2 mages are available here: http://informationondigitalcamera.blogspot.com/2009/11/olympus-e-p2-black-body-black-leather.html

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(FT4) Also Samsung will finally announce their MicroFourThirds competitor on December 10!

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Olympus and Panasonic MicroFourThirds alliance will not only have to compete against the next Ricoh camera but also Samsung finally decided to enter the game and the Samsung NX camera will be finally unveiled the December 10!

And k-rumors has already the final specifications!

“Mount: Samsung NX
Sensor: 23.4 x 15.6mm APS-C CMOS 14.6 mega pixels (1.5x)
Body: polycarbonate sealed against dust and moisture
Image stabilization: Optical Image Stabilization system (OIS)
Processor: DRIM image processor
Format image: JPEG, DNG, JPEG-DNG
Video: FullHD 1080p/30fps
Recording format: H.264 HD
Recording quality: SF, F, N
Audio: Built-in real stereo
Audio format: AAC
Focus system: Contrast Autofocus with 16 AF areas, face detection and tracking mode, manual focus (focus by wire)
Shutter: mechanical shutter, bulb, 30s-1/6000, 4.5fps
Sensitivity: ISO 100-3200 (50-6400)
Viewfinder: Electronic Viewfinder 1080p/260Hz, 100% coverage, 1X magnification
Main screen: AMOLED 3″, 921.000 dots, 120Hz
Flash: Pop-up, GN12
Connectivity: HDMI, USB 2.0, Video/Audio out, BlueTooth, WiFi
Storage media: SD/SDHC”

source: Pentax rumors and Samsung rumors

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UPDATED -> a little bit of everything…

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Panasonic on Time square.

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Quesabesde compares the Canon SD90 and the Panasonic LX3! Read the article in spanish or english (google translation)
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The german magazine Spiegel tests the Panasonic GF1. Read in german or english (again with google doing the translation for you)
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Lenstip reviews the Leica Summicron-M 50 mm f/2.0. May some of you have the lens on the E-P1/GF1.
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One of my favorite reviewers Lori form CNET USA has tested the Panasonic GF1: http://reviews.cnet.com/digital-cameras/panasonic-lumix-dmc-gf1/4505-6501_7-33770516.html
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The Samsung NX is coming in December. So after Ricoh we will have a second MicroFourThirds competitor this year! Read the news on K-rumors.com
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Panasonic financial news: It s going better!
The bad news is that Panasonic digital camera division had earnings loss of 18% this year (Sony “Digital Imaging” had -33% loss). The good news is that now the trend is positive. After the first quartal losses Panasonic had a 11% earnings increase!

Source: http://panasonic.co.jp/corp/news/official.data/data.dir/en091030-5/en091030-5.html
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The Panasonic LUMIX G 20mm f/1.7 Lens is back in Stock at amazon.com!!!

And Amazon UK finally has the Panasonic 20mm f/1.7 Lens (in Stock!)

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