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Panasonic’s New 20mm f1.7 Pancake Getting Solid Reviews

From Imaging Resource's Tests

From Imaging Resource's Tests

Having survived the slings and arrows of both DPReview and Imaging Resource, the new 20mm f1.7 pancake for Micro Four-Thirds from Panasonic comes out pretty well. There’s a bit of a discrepancy between the sharpness results from DPReview and IR, with Imaging Resource showing it far more favorably (might’ve been the body it was tested on, apparently that E-P1 has some chops as well).

Now, we just finish the wait for them to come in. Want one complete with the sexy new GF1 body? Best get on our wait lst, do that here.



Digital Foci’s Photo Book Gets Third PMA “Hot Pic”

difi-albumDigital Foci’s Photo Book recently picked up it’s third PMA “Hot Pic” award, having now claimed it in America, Australia, and Canada. Apparently it’s expected to be one of the hottest items this season. We’ve got them downstairs, so it wouldn’t hurt our feelings at all if that turned out to be true.

We played with a while back on here, and they’re really quite nice devices. Friendly, large screen and photo album graphics make this a bit more than your usual photo frame, and the leather(ette?) cover makes it even more oriented towards group sharing and viewing. Looking to move to a digital portfolio? It’s a good direction to go, and cheap.




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