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And I can't wait for an upgraded M so I can get a camera with decent lenses... I've been thinking about the Olympus E-P1 for a month or two now, and really, really liked it - that is, until I saw the lens tests. There is a line from a reviewer about the movie, "2010"... Let me see if I can remember it. "How can a spacecraft (referring to the Russian spacecraft Alexi Leonov) from ten years in the future (of the movie 2001) look like it is twenty years older?" Something like that anyway... The E-P1 reminds me a lot of my Contax G1 and G2 - sans finder of course. However, the zoom lens that comes with it, although of the same approximate range and F-stop as the Contax zoom Contax G System , has tons more distortion. The pancake does nothing for me. How is it that twenty years ago (or so) Contax could make a lens system for a new type of RF (made of titanium!) that didn't need correction in software, didn't have loads of CA, and with all the modern tech we have now, Oly can't? It's as if Apple had decided to make a new, tiny iPod for 2009 that had a black and white display and 10GB of memory and sold for $800. Why can't manufacturers these days make a small camera with a zoom, a great set of primes, reliable and tough, with fast focus and a full frame sensor? If Contax could do it all those years ago, with by our standards primitive processors and electronics, why the frell can't it be done now? This is exceedingly discouraging. Sincerely, Dana Kincaid

Well, a lot is written on this X100 Fuji camera and I can present the instruction manual too.(3Mb so to big for an upload here). But after upgrading my Oly PEN E-P1 to firmware 1.4 and upgrading the lenses software too (17mm Pancake, 14-42mm) to firmware 1.1 A.F. is also running more fast and acurate. It's not like my SLR Canon 5D but hey it's a compact camera, not a professional SLR system. I am sure when the latest firmware of the X1 is available it will be much better too. What i like of the Olympus are the options, widely available (e.g. shut off the display when using the optical V.F. ) and the very compact design for a changeble lens system. An yes, I am also using my M lenses on it! (Novoflex Leica M - micro 4/3). But time is going on and more compact cameras of a very good preformance level are available now. Let's try to find out some pro and contras for these cameras.