Curious timing, no? Nary the fortnight after Olympus voiced an autofocus-related firmware refurbish for the line of Micro Four Thirds cameras (the COOP E-P1, E-P2 as well as E-PL1), along comes Panasonic with an all-too-similar turn of firmware fixes for their own MFT operation. Slated to strike a interwebs upon May 10th, the contingent of brand-new updates will purportedly move softened autofocus opening with third-party lenses as good as approval of a brand-new 14-42mm pack wizz to a DMC-GF1, DMC-GH1 as well as DMC-G1. We’re additionally told which there will be softened peep opening for a latter dual, as well as if you only so occur to be a unapproachable owners of a single of these, you can conduct upon past a mangle for a full changelog.
Firmware ver.1.2 for DMC-GF1

* Operation menu for picture stabilizer will be combined to a menu options when a LUMIX G VARIO 14-42 mm / F3.5-5.6 ASPH. / MEGA O.I.S. (H-FS014042) is trustworthy.
* Improved AF (auto concentration opening with lenses of alternative manufacturer

Firmware ver.1.3 for DMC-GH1

* Operation menu for picture stabilizer will be combined to a menu options when a LUMIX G VARIO 14-42 mm / F3.5-5.6 ASPH. / MEGA O.I.S. (H-FS014042) is trustworthy.
* Availability of AF opening in FHD (full HD) film recording mode with Four Thirds lenses which have been concordant with contrariety AF
* Improved AF opening in film recording with LEICA DG MACRO-ELMARIT 45mm / F2.8 ASPH. / MEGA O.I.S. (H-ES045)
* Improved modulation correctness of peep
* Improved AF (auto concentration opening with lenses of alternative manufacturer

Firmware ver.1.5 for DMC-G1

* Operation menu for picture stabilizer will be combined to a menu options when a LUMIX G VARIO 14-42 mm / F3.5-5.6 ASPH. / MEGA O.I.S. (H-FS014042) is trustworthy.
* Improved modulation correctness of peep
* Improved AF (auto concentration opening with lenses of alternative manufacturer

The brand-new firmware will be accessible worldwide during GMT: 8:00 a 10th of May, 2010 during http://panasonic.jp/support/global/cs/dsc/