Digital Camera Review

Digital Camera Review

Sep 25, 2008 - By Steve Morgenstern
Completely new camera formats don't come along that often, but we've just had our first hands-on with one; the first camera that uses the new Micro Four Thirds format. We spent some quality time with a pre-production sample of the Panasonic G1, the first camera in the recently announced Micro Four Thirds format. The G1 is an interchangeable lens camera that looks like a shrunken SLR, but works very differently, with photo composition handled on the live LCD screen instead of through an optical viewfinder. We were impressed overall with the camera's performance, but still wonder if there's actually a market for a camera that's significantly smaller than a traditional SLR, but still much larger than a pocketable point-and-shoot. Panasonic has not announced final pricing or availability yet, but we expect that it will hit the market before the end of the year for about $800. Our first impressions review based on our tests with a pre-production unit follows.
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