[Zig]

I see the Panasonic G3 has been handled, albeit noncomittedly, by dpreview; the price seems quite attractive and I find myself half-musing on a combo of it and a 20mm lens.
Have any of you seen its advance presence anywhere else on the web yet?

[enviroguy]

I handled the G3 briefly during a photography show last Friday. It just became available the day before. The little digicam seemed pleasant enough and had one of the best electronic viewfinders that I have seen. The EVF on these cameras would be one of the most important features for me, if I ever decide to get one.

[shuttertalk]

Ha ha, when I clicked the title I thought you mean the Canon G3... bit old school? My dad had one a couple of years back...

[shuttertalk]

Read a couple of articles on it - surprised at how compact it is. It's similar in size to a Panasonic GF1 or Olympus PEN series.

There's a hands on here:
http://www.photographyblog.com/news/pana..._hands-on/

Also some Q&A
http://www.photographyblog.com/articles/...nd_answer/

Which introduced me to a new term I haven't heard before - CSC or Compact Camera System. Now I know what to call these things - as a few other players, not just M43 ones, have been entering the market.

Interesting that they predict the CSC (woo) market will outgrow the DSLR market in 2013...

[Zig]

I can quite believe that: as people's brains get smaller and more withered like pickled walnuts, due to technology-addiction, there is a physical outworking of the same downsizing, ergo, smaller-format everything.

Arf!

Thanks for the useful links there Jules!

(Later...)...
O My Gawsh it's tiiiiiiny! My 1Ds will laugh so hard it'll rip its own rivets out....! Hmmm....there's small, and there's unmanly...