I say for now since I’ve decided to keep 2 of my Nikon lenses.  Maybe in the future I’ll go back to Nikon, but the Micro FourThirds system has made enough steps forward to make me believe that they’re heading in the right direction.

The GF2 was announced this morning and although it’s a step toward the consumer market, I still think it’ll be a good upgrade.  It fits me perfectly because I’ve never been just a photographer or just a videographer.  I do a lot of both and switch between them at any given moment.  The GF2 has full 1080p HD video with a better sensor which will allow me to take high quality video.  The touch to focus during video mode is also a really easy way to get high production value without that much effort.  I’m waiting for the low light samples to come out since that’s one thing I felt was lacking in the GF1.  Photos taken above ISO 800 were pretty unusable unless you ran them through noise reduction software.

There’s been rumors that Nikon will release their own mirrorless camera system.  I hope this is true so there’s some more competition and innovation amongst the camera vendors.  At that time I’ll reevaluate and see if I want to reinvest in Nikon, but for now, it’s goodbye!

I got my Nikon GP-1 unit in today. It’s a gps unit for Nikon SLR’s that automatically geotags your photos for you so you can see exactly where you took a picture. This is a great feature for when you are traveling and taking a lot of shots in different places. The new iPhoto 09 already has a places feature where you can view all your geotagged photos on a map. Hopefully there will be an update for Aperture soon. The next trip I’m taking will be to Toronto so I’ll be sure to use it when I walk the city!

I calculated that out of the 16,171 photos that I have, 8,152 were taken with my d70.

OMG I bought it! Time to wait for it to come in…