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Panasonic has today added the F8 to its range of ‘Toughbook’ rugged laptops which it claims is the world’s lightest 3G-ready notebook at 3.7 pounds.

Panasonic claims to have released the World’s first Micro Four Thirds system camera, the Lumix DMC G1, weighing in at only 385 grams making it only half the weight of typical DSLRs!

Warner Bros has until now backed both horses in the DVD wars publishing its titles on HD DVD and Blu-Ray but at the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) in Las Vegas the Hollywood studio made the shock announcement that they would in future only be backing one of the DVD format contenders in the future…

Panasonic are well-acquainted with the formula of combining high specification optics with high sensor resolution and the Lumix DMC-FZ18 is no exception. The optical zoom lens has a range of 28mm to 504mm! Unfortunately these specifications are marred by some poor design choices.