We had the pleasure of attending a Panasonic Digital Photography class with Rick Gerrity this past weekend. Since we've had the GF1 since June, it intimidated the heck out of me, since I'd always had a simple point and shoot camera. Attending this class, however, has made me a lot more comfortable, and knowledgeable, about photography in general, and about this, and our other camera. I highly recommend these classes, I know I'll be signing up for others in the next few months. Having a small class size was fantastic, gave us alot of opportunity to ask questions and make sure we got the most out of the limited time we had.

Thanks Rick!

This lens will be available for the Lumix four-thirds series of digital cameras:

http://panasonic.net/avc/lumix/popup/pressrelease/14_100300_3D.html

Very excited about this!

On our way to Windsor Castle, our guide pointed out this horse carved out of the hill. It's been around for a while apparently.

Playing around with the slideshow feature on the LiHD site.

livinginhd.com/sebastian

In our case, this was very literal, since we found out a few weeks ago that since we were the first family to receive the 3D LiHD suite, and we lived in NJ, about an hour away from the Panasonic US headquarters, we were asked if we'd be willing to talk to some Panasonic employees about our experiences so far. Included in this group was an executive director (as in board of directors) from Panasonic, Japan, and the VP of the Panasonic Networking group, one of the product managers, and our own LiHD Community Manager, Yessica!

We were extremely honored, of course, and had the pleasure of meeting these Panasonic reps and talk to them about our products, how we use them, what we'd like to see, what we'd like to see different, etc. yesterday. I'd also been learning some basic Japanese greetings over the past 2 weeks, causing some restless mornings where I'd wake up repeating 'Please help yourself' and 'I speak a little Japanese' in Japanese... they seemed to appreciate me trying at least!

Ushimaru-san had just flown in from Osaka that morning, and he was just the best. Here he is trying some of Ada's freshly-baked pecan pie, which he enjoyed tremendously.

He actually designed the ZS model cameras, and the little video-camera icon, so again, meeting him was such a great honor.

They were only able to stay for an hour, but we showed them a lot of pictures we took at the NJ Renaissance Festival over the weekend (I'll post some later this week) and our LiHD set-up, so overall it was a great visit. I'm glad I was able to get this photo-op as they left, it was once again another memorable LiHD experience!