Is it just me or does Panasonic own the Micro Four Thirds arena? Probably so. Making a worthy successor to the G2, the G3 will have a 16 megapixel sensor, support for 1080p AVCHD video recording with stereo audio, 4fps burst shooting at full resolution, and an articulating, 3-inch touchscreen that replaces some of the dials on the last-gen G2 model. The touchscreen allows you to focus and operate the camera much like a smartphone’s, and weighs 11.8 ounces of aluminum, which makes it 10% lighter than the previous-gen model. The Panasonic LUMIX DMC-G3 launches sometimes in June for $700 in black (of course), brown, red and white.
Oh, and if you want a 16MP point-and-shoot camera, then the Lumix-FH7 (also announced today) has 720p HD video recording and 4x zoom, which can be seen in a press shot after the jump, with a press release.
It’s about time. The Flip was an ideal video camera for both professional journalism and the average consumer, but then came the high-powered smartphone, complete with video shooting at 720p HD (and now some at 1080p HD). The leader of this march was the iPhone 4 and a handful of great Android phones, and guess what? Rather than Cisco killing the Flip, it’s the smartphones that killed the Flip: there was no reason to buy a separate gadget anymore. And because of this causality, 550 Cisco employees are out of their jobs (the sad part), but so it goes.
It’s a new D-Series edition DSLR by Nikon, and this time it’s called the D5100. Set to be released in “mid-April” for $799.95 or $899.95 with a kit lens (seen above) the D5100 contains the following awesome specs, which remain to be seen if they actually deliver, as is the case with all new DSLRs:
See that up there? That’s the Nikon Coolpix P300. It’s the Canon Powershot S95 nemesis, uses a 4.2X (24-100mm) lens with f1.8 aperture, a 12.2 megapixel CMOS sensor, full manual controls, backlight HDR, scenes, 1080p HD video recording with live autofocus, and some of the other Nikon technologies seen in its best cameras. The P500 (seen in the gallery below) has a 36X (22.5-810mm) lens, 12.1 megapixel CMOS sensor, a tilting LCD, the same video recording modes of the P300, and similar overall form of usage.
Face it. The Fujifilm Finepix X100 is the most awesome looking retro camera with (some) modern-day parts. Turns out, Fujifilm has finally outed the release date and price after unveiling it in late 2010. The 12.3 megapixel shooter will be shipping to the States next month, with all wallets and credit cards crying for help: $1,199.95 which gets a 23mm F2 prime lens, a pretty standard ISO range of 200 to 6400 (with boost available up to the usual 12800), a built-in ND filter, Hybrid Viewfinder, and that sweet, sweet magnesium alloy chassis design. Yup, that’s all you have to know about it now. It’ll ship in March. Via: 
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A macro spotlight that has stretchy arms on your unreleased Olympus E-PL2 camera that successes the as-of-now old E-PL1? Yes, please. The new Micro Four Thirds camera from Olympus should feature a 14-42mm f/3.5 – 5.6 kit lens, a ‘direct movie record’ button (you know, a quick record in HD button), a high-res 3-inch display, and an optional Bluetooth model. Also, these tentacles/things run off of the main battery, so this would be a definite buy, supposedly. Via: 
