where are the cameras?

[Margus]

It has been a month now since news (http://www.dcresource.com/news/newsitem.php?id=3767) about the micro four thirds standard.
Where the heck are the cameras?

[MaDMaXX]

Thinking they're all awaiting Photokina, seems the manufacturers are keeping things as tight as they can at the moment, wanting to release the info at their speed rather than leaked.

[aafuss]

DMC-G1 (http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/panasonics-lumix-g1-worlds-first-micro-four-thirds-camera/)-world's first micro Four Thirds camera.

[TenD]

Look at the front page (http://www.dcresource.com/) here...

[Margus]

Ok, can I have one, now plz? :)

[shahmatt]

I must say I'm all excited. I await eagerly for the ISO test. But I have this strange premonition that it might just be ordinary....

[Margus]

Looking at the LCD aspect ratio 3:2 of the DMC-G1 it seems that the term "four thirds" is going to be a buzzword in the future or vanish at all from the name of the standard. After all the aspect ratio 4:3 was the standard ratio of computer monitors, which is not the case nowadays. But somehow the ratio 4:3 has survived in the compact cameras which are mostly used to take pictures to be seen on 16:9 monitors or 3:2 printouts :eek:

[AlexMonro]

I think the fact that Four Thirds format DSLRs have an aspect ratio of 4:3 is purely coincidental. I believe the name "Four Thirds" comes from the sensor size, in the old videcon TV camera tube form, similar to compact cameras' 1/2.5", 1/1.8", 2/3" etc. : 4/3"