I’ve found myself fascinated lately by the upcoming DSLR from Panasonic, the Lumix DMC-L1. I’ve run across a handful of pages related to this camera over the last couple weeks, and I thought I’d share them. DPReview have gotten their grubby mitts on one, and have a hands-on preview up. Panasonic have an interesting set of articles walking through the design process they went through for the camera. And there’s a screen grab of their lens lineup here. Looks like some interesting stuff in the pipeline.

I’m not sure why I’m so interested in this camera. I think part of it is that I really like my dinky Lumix point’n'shoot, and I’m interested to see what they can do with a DSLR. Part of it is that it looks to be a thoroughly modern camera in some ways (live view, ultrasonic dust filter, OIS) but they appear to have gone to great pains to make the handling and interface very… photographic, like an old manual film camera. Mostly though, I think it’s just because it’s so darn pretty.