Panasonic unveils its new G2 and G10 models early

[hschnee]

Regardless of how good it is, it only works with the few Panasonic lenses that include it, which leaves out the majority of FT lenses. I wonder if it's something of a "sacred cow" to Panasonic, because a sensor-shift system makes so much more sense to me for mFT cameras. (I would say for all cameras, but especially for mFT.)

- Hal -

[sonyhome]

Maybe panasonic bodies should have IS, but allow a lens OIS override, so that large teles can get supplemental IS at the cost of a few grams.

For me IS is not as much a deal killer as missing the EAL-button and dial on the EPL1, or lens incompatibilities.

For me EP1 was a 1/2 baked 1st gen time-to-market gadget, forcing an early EP-2 out, and still it's flawed: no built in flash, overpriced, incomplete marketing. I think Olympus is overstretched and it shows in the products, good stuff but with absurd flaws liike epl1 having the flash, showing maybe a ressource/schedule/feature constraint matrix pushing features out.
Panasonic's lineup seem more coherent, or maybe the features they dropped is less visible, like lens AF compatibility.