Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH1

As Panasonic declared the DMC-G1 in Sep 2008, the industry saw its first actual innovation for a while: an electronic view finder interchangeable lens digital camera with a large imaging sensor. Panasonic had managed to overcome a whole list of technical hurdles to produce the camera and the G1 featured an electronic view finder that got pretty close to a fine mirror and prism, plus a contrast-detect autofocus that in terms of speed and accuracy could rival ‘traditional’ phase-detect systems of DSLRs.