Panasonic launches the GF2 Micro Four Thirds camera

Panasonic has today launched the new GF2 Micro Four Thirds camera to supersede their popular GF1 model.  The MFT (Micro Four Thirds) standard has been gaining market position quickly over the last couple of years and Panasonic’s cameras have been at the forefront of this popularity boom.  The previous G models (G1, GH1, GF1) were very popular and well received by the press in general.  At Photokina in September Panasonic too the wraps off the new DMC-GH2 and initial reports of that camera have found image quality and autofocus speed to be of excellent quality.  When the original GF1 was announced it surprised a few people by managing to cram nearly all the features of it’s larger brother, the GH1, into a much smaller package. With the GF2 they have achieved much the same thing but with a few key differences.

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