Panasonic Wows while Olympus Proves it is Tough

Not sure if everyone had heard of the new Panasonic GF-1.  Pretty awesome.  As an owner of the LX3, I must say this camera looks great.  I'm loving the electronic viewfinder.  Cameras like this and the Olympus EP-1 are the products that are going to put Micro-Four Thirds on the wish list of every photographer.  These things rock!  So if you have no idea what I am talking about follow the link in this post to read about it.  Small cameras, big sensors, interchangeable lenses.....life is good.  Also I admit it, I pixel peeped.  I hate pixel peeping but I did it.  In my opinion, 1600 ISO on this new camera and on the Olympus EP-1 look better, cleaner and have more detail than the samples from the Canon 7D.  I have no idea what Canon was thinking putting 18 megapixels on that little sensor.  It makes absolutely no sense to me at all.

Anyway, I rarely play with iMovie (being as I'm a photographer, not a videographer after all) but I really want to get better at it as I'm playing with inserting video into wedding slideshows (did it once this year already) so I did up a little video of my daughter playing with my waterproof Olympus 850SW camera.  I love that camera.  I have no fear about handing it over to a seven year old.  Check out the movie in this post.  If you are a parent I think it will convince you you need a waterproof, drop proof point and shoot.