Tony
As a committed Canon EOS user, who is thinking about adding a Panny 4/3 for travelling,
I was a commited EOS user, and for a long time too. After waiting years for digital EOS to allow me make sense of my TS-E lenses (24 and 90, so no full frame = no sense) and trying to like the 10D and 20D. When the G1 came out I gave up on the digital EOS and bought that.
Now I'm a Panasonic FD and OM user ;-)
I am surprised at how few people are mentioning the G10.
I agree with you ... I think that the G10 is very interesting. Sufferers of
CFO are perhaps blinded to the fact that the G10 will come in with more or less exactly the specification of the GF-1 + its LVF1 finder plus a few extra advances in onboard JPG engine. I'm willing to bet that the price of the G10 will be cheaper than that pair (GF + LVF).
Since forums like this seem to be a small circle of friends (which is good to have btw) I put my thoughts about such a G10 -> GF-1 feature / price comparison on my
blog.
So, what'll happen with the pricing of the G10?
If it comes in at less than the GF-1 (my suspicion) it will then make the GF-1 look more over priced and under featured than it does now. If it comes in over that price then it will be far too close to the G2 in price (which can't be too high with the GH1 already setting the upper limits and of course great cameras like the new Canon 550D nipping at the market).
Adding Godfreys observation that the G10 will allow the use of more of the Oly 4/3 lenses I'm even more interested.