Panasonic GF1 Field Report, camera review.
It's a good review, and I agree with almost everything he says, with a possible exception: that 1600 ISO is fully usable. Like a commenter here pointed out, you do get a noticable decline in image quality going from 800 to 1600. Rather less detail. Though it can be improved somewhat by slagging through the RAW files procedure, it is not for big prints. Bigger cameras like the Nikon D90 or Canon T1i have much better low light quality. It pretty much follows sensor size, and like I have said, this one is in-between DSLR cameras and compact cameras in that respect. But I do hope next generation of Micro Four Thirds cameras improve this yet another step, that would be kewl.
Oh, by the way, I had not even thought of trying out the video quality until reading this review. He is right, it's excellent. And it could not be easier to use, and both focus and exposure are automatic in real time, very very good.
... It should be said that unlike with the (more expensive) GH1, you are stuck with the built-in microphone, and while the sound quality from that is pretty good, this does limit the camera to amateur use for video. Sound quality has always been a main bottleneck for video quality, you do need an external mic.
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