Monthly Archives: March 2011

OK I’ll be honest and say that the very next day after losing my GF1 I hopped on Google to do some more solid GF1 vs GF2 reviews. The reason why I bought the GF1 over the Olympus is that the GF1’s 20mm pancake lens rocks my socks off. The Olympus took crap shots until I put the GF1 lens on it and that closed the deal for me. The GF2 is lighter, smaller but what’s really sad about the new GF2 is that it doesn’t come with the 20mm pancake lens.

Deal breaker!

With the help of some of those nasty price comparison sites I found myself a good deal on a GF1 for $700 shipped with an upgraded memory card. I pulled the trigger on it with express shipping, it should have gotten to me today.

BUT.

I got an email today from the overseas shop telling me that they’ve run out of stock on the GF1, would I like to upgrade to a GF2? Bad vibes bad vibes! I replied to their email asking for a refund, also hopped onto their site to live chat with a representative to again confirm my refund. Eventually I got an email confirmation stating that my money has been refunded and it should turn up in my Paypal account soon.

Having sorted that out I took note of Khoa’s Facebook offer of getting me one for $640 and also Saad’s comment about getting his for $650 from Harvey Norman. I called Harvey Norman in Bondi and they didn’t have any GF1’s. I got the guy to check other stores and unfortunately they had none at all in the system. I contacted Khoa who works at Harvey Norman and it turns out there was one left in the stock room at his shop so it’s all mine!

I’ll be picking it up off him (I’m hoping it’s a black one, didn’t even ask…will settle for white if need be though!) next Sunday at the JDMST/TLD EOMM – good times up ahead!

I can’t remember the last time I’ve lost something. Lost my wallet, keys too a few times when I was in high school, that was enough to teach me to always look around the table for stuff before I get up and go, but last night I lost my Panasonic Lumix GF1 camera.

I was out catching up with old mates. We ended up at Sean’s place and on the way out I left my jacket in his apartment so I had to go back up to get it (I think this was already a sign ahaha), we then walked from Broadway to Central to grab some McDonalds (as you do when you’re wasted) and after that we hopped in a cab home. A few minutes into the ride home I realised I’d lost the camera. Christina suggested we go back to get it, but I was pretty sure it would be gone for good. The cabbie urged me to call McDonalds and after some failed attempts I finally got through, camera wasn’t there though (of-course).

No-one to blame but myself. It definitely wasn’t on the table. I took the water home instead of the camera! It must have been on the bench next to me. There are a few really nice shots on there which I’m a bit sad to lose. Some shots from Wagaya the other night, new footage of Mia going nuts with a catnip toy, sunnies hunting with a mate Ben (who ended up with some hella pimp Armani’s!), a great accidental shot of Suga whilst she was placing a VWGolf card on a car windscreen last night and shots of Liz and Tab from last night’s catchup.

I’m sure the person who found the camera’s going to absolutely love the GF1, you never know, they might even get into photography because it’s so good!

Where to from here? I’ve been reading up on the new GF2 and everything I’m reading sounds crap. Funnily I had a random last night stop me mid conversation to ask if I had the GF1 or the GF2…when I told him it was a GF1 he gave me the thumbs up, very strange. The GF2 doesn’t come with the nice 20mm pancake lens which is what makes the GF1 so nice. I might consider a GF1 again, they’re cheaper now than when I bought mine (about $1k before and about $700 or so now at some places).