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2009 | By Simon Joinson, Andy Westlake Buy on From $1,477.98
Review based on a production Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF1 with
firmware v0.1  When Panasonic showed us the first Micro Four
Thirds camera, the DMC-G1, our first question was 'why does it
look like an SLR?'. We'd been hoping for a much more compact
body, something that more effectively straddled the line between
the convenience of a compact and the quality and versatility of
a digital SLR. Well, a couple of months ago we were ushered into
a private meeting with Panasonic to see the GF1, Panasonic's
answer to all those critics who failed to see the point of Micro
Four Thirds if it was simply going to ape conventional SLR
styling.  And, once we'd been fully briefed on just how secret
this all was (totally moot, as it transpires, since pictures of
the GF1 were leaked and published extensively a couple of weeks
later), we got our hands on what Panasonic hopes will be the
camera to convince those pu