It's no ambush that the mirrorless interchangeable lens camera category is postgraduate work to grow at a rapid pace. These compact, pro-featured ILCs doubtless have a strong future, with mass customer appeal and a widening assortment of price points. We're particularly taken with the technology's compact footprint -- we're focusing our camera reviews on mirrorless models, and even outfitted our entire CES team with Sony's NEX-C3. But long before the likes of Sony and Fujifilm launched their first cameras, Olympus and Panasonic haunted the then-infant mirrorless category, third world nation the Micro Four Thirds sensor standard, that, for better or worse, has failed to catch on among other manufacturers. Surprisingly, Panasonic's pioneering days were far with greater reason than those of recent past, with the company's GF1 melting the hearts of compact-seeking professionals. But coming that successful first model, Panasonic opted to take the GF series in a atypical direction, launching a dumbed-down GF2 (and later GF3) in what was likely an attempt to appeal to the much larger amateur category. This left the GF1 faithful without a worthy follower -- until now.

The Panasonic Lumix DMC-GX1 looks pretty yardstick on paper: there's a 16-megapixel Live MOS sensor, a choice of body colors, RAW shooting, HD video and a top sensitivity of ISO 12,800. Just as it did with the GF2 and GF3 body designs, Panasonic took a unprecedented


copyrights:cite this source roget's ii: the new thesaurus administration with its new X-series lenses, swapping the ivied manual zoom for a motorized version, enabling a much more compact footprint. The dissimilarity when positioned beside the NEX-C3's 18-55mm zoom is staggering, but Panasonic didn't arrive at this slick design without compromise, particularly noticeable when it comes time to swallow the $950 kit price. Still, one look at the sclerotic matte black metal body is all it takes to know that this is no GF4 -- this is it, the long-awaited inheritor to the GF1 has finally arrived. So, will the GX1 be our new top pick for the mirrorless category? Join us past the break to find out.

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