The danish Zoom website announces that Panasonic will unveil the new Lumix camera by September 1th. And we bet the camera will be the new GF1 MicroFourThirds camera. Also the 20mm f/1.7 and 45mm macro lens are expected to be announced.
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first of all, keep up the good work, it’s nice to have a rumor site dedicated to 4/3, but you should better stop spreading such bullshit as GH1 shipping via amazon. if you had taken a look, you would have seen that 2 different dealers are offering their small stock (only 4 left) with an 1K addon to the list price. i’d call that rip off & exploiting the fact that it’s NOT generally available. so please stop telling that bullshit until amazon is shipping the item not only through some third party seller. otherwise i could also start saying: amazon it shipping the champagne GH1! (well, ok, its only in japan… tax, shipping & customs will get you a bit over the list price for the US & you’ll only get japanese menues, buy hey, nobody’s perfect 😉
I’m sorry, but “unvealing” and the unprofessional design ? I can’t see how this can be FT4 rumor with such a blatantly faked image.
Sorry if this is a duplicate; not sure if my first try went through. Mod, feel free to delete/not approve one.
In a nutshell, I agree with John B.
Is there any evidence that this teaser is the real deal?
I see some pretty big hints that it might be fake:
– terrible typography that doesn’t particularly resemble Panasonic corporate standards
– big fat spelling mistake – “unvealing”
– generally amateurish copy
– very simple b&w graphics — I know it’s a teaser, but this is extreme
– no location given
– no time of day given
– two dates given — why? What’s left for day 2 once it’s “unvealed”?
– the camera silhouette looks far too small to be the GF1 (granted, this part could be intentional misdirection)
Frankly, it looks like something that could have been slapped together by just about anyone who saw the leaked GF1 pictures, or even just a description of them. Even if the date turns out to be right, I’d consider that a lucky guess on the part of whoever whipped this up.
I agree this reduces the credibility of the rumor, but doesn’t completely eliminate it.
Unprofessional design: Well, it’s not as if this was a consumer ad, just a quickie invitation sent to the press. Someone in the PR office probably did it rather than sending it to an agency.
“Unvealing” — it IS Denmark, meaning English is not their native language. It would be easy for a non-native speaker to confuse the words “unveil” and “reveal.” Or rather than hiding the camera under a cloth, maybe they’re going to show it covered by a piece of veal, and then remove it…?!?
I smell a fake. I’d be more likely to believe this if the invitation actually spelled “unveiling” correctly.
to german-reader,
I wonder if you use less the word “bullshit” perhaps people would take your opinions more seriously,
As for the rumor, there is no doubt that GF1 would be unveiled soon, panasonic was clear about releasing a small bodied GH1 around September, the graphix of the advertisement adds or subtract very little from this fact,
btw, does someone presumes that there would be 14-140 kit option along with GF1?
It’s said the picture is cut out for a pdf file, that’s why it doesn’t look nice.
@Ross: i seldom share any opinions, i’m more the passive reader here. i just find it irritating & misleading when i see such an false remark. 43rumors.com have posted such misleading infos about availability in the past (dunno why, it makes no sense & they definitely don’t need it). btw someone has taken my double-bullshit comment seriously, the remark has been removed from the original post, so if my comment helped to rise the quality of the post/site… even better 🙂
to be frank, i don’t care that much if they will unveil the GF1 on the 1th, it does not really matter if they cant get it to market as with the GH1… press release in march, slated for availability in june & 2 months later its still only available (in quantities) in japan… based on such delays, you won’t have the GF1 before march 2010 if you don’t happen to be living on one specific “island” 🙂
the press release on the 1th would only help me if the video features are below of the GH1 (1080i), that way it would be clear which cam to go for…
if you think it’s a fake wait until septemeber 1st… why to discuss on such a lame topic?
I don’t think it’s a lame topic at all – I’m very interested in micro 4/3 cameras, and my next camera will definitely be a micro 4/3 camera; that’s why I follow this site. But when this rumor is rated FT4 without further corroboration, then I question the credibility of this website and how the rumors are rated. I would like to see the moderators of this website be a little more discriminating in their rating methodology since that’s the entire basis of this website. Otherwise I do enjoy visiting this website and appreciate all the efforts that have been put into maintaining this site.
And don’t get me wrong – I would love to see the GF-1 announced on September 1st, but if that happens, I would say whoever created this flyer just got lucky (it’s already widely rumored that panasonic wants to announce a new camera this fall) – even a broken clock is right twice a day.
UNVEALING is not a word. It’s not English!
UNVEILING is a word.
REVEALING is a word.
Geez what is wrong with people.
@AA
That’s where you’re wrong. I have it on good authority that somewhere in the world, the very first one of these cameras is cleverly hidden underneath a piece of veal.
To Ross: “Would there be a 14 – 140 kit option along with the GF1? ” I suppose, that instead of this a kit with the Leica Summarit 16 – 50 mm f/2,5 – 4,8 OIS wil be released at the end of the year.