UPDATE: Because of the recent Daylight saving time change most websites did publish their articles one hour earlier than expected.
http://www.photoradar.com/reviews/product/panasonic-lumix-dmc-gf2-review?t=1288805788
It has Touch AF system, and image quality is impressive: “Images taken at ISO 400 look comparable with those I have taken at ISO 200 on the G1
Price:
GF2-KEB = £599.99 (14-42mm zoom lens kit)
GF2-CEB = £629.99 (14mm pancake lens kit)
GF2-WEB = £729.99 (14-42mm & 14mm twin lens kit)
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i’m concerned about the wear and tear of the touchscreen over time… will be interesting to see other reviews. some nice improvements though. can’t wait for usd pricing.
I notice that there is no dial for mode selection on top of a camera. So it will be done via menu ?
I just want to know if it has 720p @ 60fps, no interlaced bs i hope
pc world says 720p @60fps…. And i just bought a gh1………………..
from imaging resource:
“At the same time, Panasonic added higher resolution video to the GF2, up to 1,920 x 1,080 at 60i in AVCHD compression.”
Nice.
Nice job 4/3rumors.n
pc world also has a story up. the flash is visible in one pic:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/209697/panasonic_lumix_gf2_smallest_micro_fourthirds_camera_gets_a_touchscreen.html
also a pic with a 3d lens
http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/DMCGF2/DMCGF2A.HTM
nice!
This sounds like a real missfire to me. Zero interest in touch screen gimmicks. Gladly holding out for the Fuji.
And at dpreview:
http://dpreview.com/news/1011/10110405panasonicgf2.asp
You clean up the top deck to put microphones right next to the shutter and dedicated video. Pop up flash? Ugh. The one control button kept is for idiot mode? Who is this marketed to?
Imaging Resource:
“Despite the reduction in size, the GF2 manages to find space to retain a single, SLR-style rear dial that can be used both to adjust variables such as aperture or shutter speed by rolling it in either direction, and also to confirm selections by pressing it inward. In the absence of the top-panel Drive Mode dial from the GF1, the down arrow button in the Lumix GF2’s four-way controller serves as a Drive Mode button. Most other rear-panel controls are similar in functionality and approximate placement to those of the GF1.”
£599.99 is too expensive
agreed (when looking at the kit lens)
however … look at the price of the 14/2.5 (£349)
the GF2 + 14 bundle price looks really good
An entry product not in entry price
Nothing about a viewfinder ?
A new one ?
With much pixels inside …
Does the viewfinder of the GF1 works With the GF2 ????
No dedicated AE-L button and no more mode dial? This is a glorified P&S…A totally different camera rather than a natural succession of the GF1.
== Touchscreen Impressions:
After reading a few of the early reviews, I feel a bit better about the touchscreen included. It’s nice that you can also use the physical down arrow button to change modes if you wish.
It will be nice to test the defocusing feature and triggering the shutter if need be. I shoot a lot of Chicago street photography and public transit shots, where you just don’t have a lot of time at all to take the shot so this will be helpful it seems. Pushing the autofocus point around the screen looks nice also.
==14mm/(28mm 35mm equiv) pancake:
Dpreview seems to like the 14mm pancake and thinks it’s about as fast as the GF1 with 20mm pancake. That’s good news to me. I’m used to shooting 28mm on my TZ5. It’s a bonus also as the camera’s intimidation factor seems to be low compared to whipping out a full on DSLR when shooting street photography. Some will whine about the grip looking femmy but I don’t mind! If it will allow my anonymous subjects to relax or ignore me all together, great!
==Price:
I just hope that they don’t go nuts with the USD pricing.
Glad to see a touchscreen added. Loved the one on the ST550 I reviewed, and touch focus is a great feature, as is finger driven image navigation. The mode dial is not ultra important. It still retains the thumb wheel which is. It also shrinks in size making it more pocketable, which is great. Goodbye G9. Hello GF2.
I think it is pretty smart of Panasonic to launch a GF2 with those specs. No mode dial, dumbed-down controls: this is exactly what NEX-buyers need. Now Pana have something to entice compact camera upgraders, clearly.
But they have a hole in the advanced micro43 compact market segment, and I guess they know it clearly. It should be logical to release a real GF1 successor with built-in viewfinder (like in the patents) and full controls which will be bigger than the GF2, inevitably. Let’s hope for that.
Except GF2 14-42mm kit will launch in Jan 2011 at £599.
NEX-5 18-55mm kit is available now at £489.
Pana may have answered the compact upgraders segment, but they answered too late, and without enough significant upgrades to justify the wait and £100+ premium.
but the menu system on the NEX range is like vomit
for that reason alone the price diff will be worth getting the Pan
ps – did anyone think of waking Olympus up?
This is the camera i have been waiting for man , Thanx pan
Looks more like an iPod Touch competitor than a camera. How do you download the music?
What the hell is this thing? Is it a camera or a gimmick for a woman’s purse? It’s junk like the gf2 which loses potential buyers and wastes another year of revenue for the company.I’ll wait for the Nikon and Canon mirrorless, at least with them, you’re sure to get a camera with knobs you can actually use for actually taking pictures.