Happy New year to you all.

I spent New Year up in the Lake District which was a fantastic time.

We had the weather on our side, but the drive home was abit of fun in the gale force winds.

Santa was kind enough to get me a Lumix GF1 to play with. I used to use the Cannon G10 for my everyday compact to carry about with me, but i was not impressed with the noise it produces, and in my opinion produces really poor quality images.

A few mates of mine have started a

GF1 group

and i was impressed with the little compact that they have all gotten attached too.

Lumix are now selling the GF3 £300, but this camera doesn't have a hot shoe, The GF2 has a really annoying touch screen and so the GF1 is certainly the one that you want. Mine was off ebay for £120 which i thought was a steal.

I had to purchase a lens, and so went for the 20mm pancake lens.

All the images in this post are taken with the GF1 using the 20mm lens.