something i find quite funny when looking at the statement by panasonic spokesmen about their design direction,according to one of the interview quoted from 43rumors website http://www.43rumors.com/panasonic-has-no-p...cameras-coming/

The polish website Optyczne (Click here) interviewed Mister Michiharu Uematsu from Panasonic. The most interesting points are:

2) And here is the reaosn why you want never see a Panasonic camera with built-in stabilization: “So far, no plans to assemble in a body-stabilized matrices. When recording movies acting to stabilize the matrix generates unnecessary noise on the soundtrack, and increases power consumption, and for all of our equipment we want efficient energy consumption.”
according to them the reason behind the absent of in-body stabilization in panasonic body was that they want "efficient energy consumption device",but interestingly panasonic was always significantly less power efficient than their immediate competitor olympus in this respect by a substantial margin despite their lack of the in-body stabilizer.

something has to be said, they can't just lie down kena stomp over lolz.. be it an excuse or solid decision making , it does surely impact their sales later on if they dont move up their IS implementation

They tok kok wan la. Panny's lens direction already set with OIS di so its gonna be an expensjve preposition for them to switch to in body IS

Adding IBIS would incur higher production costs I assume, thus higher priced prodcuts

a higher price which i'm sure you & me and many forumers here willing fork out,olympus counterpart doesn't cost that much more anyway,do you ever wished your 20mm f1.7 or the upcoming 12mm f2.0 or perhaps the 45mm f1.8 is stabilized to work better in low light?oops sorry you can't because you are using panasonic body,but panasonic themselves might think the majority others don't give it a damn

Lol, who knows their marketing dept might think that by having lower priced products, they can attract more customers.
Look at the GF3 and the intended market with so many stuffs stripped out of it.

There is one advantage of having lens based stabilization though and that is video. Oly uses software stabilization for video but don't know how effective is that - I never play around with video much to notice.

But the thing is, so far there isn't any brand that I know of which offers dual stabilization option at the moment (i.e. having IS lenses as well as stabilized sensor) . Sony (alpha mount) and Pentax do not produce any stabilized lenses.

Are shashinki reliable to purchase from? I need few items from them.
Ya btw, their price cheap or expensive compare to retail?

I love Sony's zoom in focusing system for adapted manual lenses, so much more convenient than Olympus'. They should make it that way for the next series or something.

I love Sony's zoom in focusing system for adapted manual lenses, so much more convenient than Olympus'. They should make it that way for the next series or something.

I love Sony's zoom in focusing system for adapted manual lenses, so much more convenient than Olympus'. They should make it that way for the next series or something.