Adrian Lewis

There, fixed /:-) (Coming from a GH1 owner ...)

Couldn't have put it better myself. Thanks :- ) I haven't put stuff in the grand designs thread for a long time. I may have missed yours, which thread was it in?

http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd330/Ajax9000/mFT/ICL_evolution_2011.gif

You are forgetting the price Nikon pays to build it.
If Nikon can sell it for this much, but it is cheaper to make than its µft and APS-C rivals, guess what ... profitability is better! Pretty damn...

You are right, but actually wrong.
Industry is littered with companies that faded away because they were afraid to cannibilize their existing product lines.
Companies that have the gust to...

I agree. There are a dozen or more evolutionary options for ILC bodies (e.g. see http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1041&message=35306274). I think the reason µFT enthusiasts...

... you win on brand cache. Actually a smart position to take by Nikon. Most mass market buyers won't realise the sensor-size issue, so they will see a camera that looks like mFT, NEX, NX, but...

... Yes, I was being a little cheeky with that comment. But the issue is that it has taken Panasonic so long to bring out a power zoom. Support for power zoom on µFT was an issue being...

... You know, I missed that completely. :-) On the other hand, that the FL-300R only came out a few months ago, is kind of the point ... the wait for something better than the FL-14 (but...

I did quite a lot of thinking (and posting) about this mid-2010; e.g: http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1041&message=36350494 Mostly using the E-PL1 as a basis, it was the case...

... out of complacency ... I hope! :-) The Nikon 1 doesn't do anything for me, and won't for a lot of us around here. But it has some attractive features that will mean that it should sell well...

Unlikely I'd take a pair of optical binoculars instead -- I don't own any :-)

> They remind me of the binoculars Luke Skywalker uses on Tatooine
That was my inital thought too.
Comments here aren't very positive, but I must say that the instantly appealing thing is that...