UPDATE: We just recieved more informations from our sources. The announcement will be made early March and not next week. There have been a mistake with two sources! It happens rarely but it happens.
Panasonic seems to be ready to announce a LOT of stuff! Compact camera/s new MicroFourThirds camera and lenses.
(FT3) Probably no GH2 with 60p/50p but a G2 with video recording is going to be unveiled. There is also a fair chance to see the new LX3 successor with backlight sensor.
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That’s cool. And whats with the teaser? You wanted to post why there aren’t the silhouettes any more.
Because the announcement is next week and not on March 7. They removed it to make it clear to anyone.
I still can’t imagine why they would wait till after PMA to announce cameras? Oh well, I guess we can wait another week.
I also didn’t believe it first!
Any reason why you think it might be the next LX?
Hi Spoid! i received one rumors from a good source. But I am not certain until I do not receive more details and confirmations from other sources.
just a quick question,
is it a g2? or a gh5?
even if it is a g2( a succesor to the g1) i am still assuming that it will come out with video capability right?
Dcinside…right.
holding out for the gf2 or a better EVF for gf1
*sigh* i got some waiting to do 🙂
What are the chances of seeing another GF1-type body or a wider than 17mm m4/3 prime? I’m currently planning to buy a GF1 and 20mm kit, but will wait and see what’s coming.
Low chances Jacob. But I am still struggling with my sources…I hope I can know more soon.
Announcements after PMA make a lot of sense. It will be a much quiter time and attention spans are higher.
Announcements in the peak of PMA will get lost among the noise.
Marketing is also about signal to noise ratio. 😉
If everything rumored about the GH2 is true, why would anyone buy the G2? unless it has huge improvements over the G1 ( and not just video), i see no point on doing so….again:some leak on the specs?…………
And about the compact: the silhouete was clearly from the TZ series, nope?
@mpgxsvcd: Same reason why Canon waited a week after PMA to announce the T1i: So nobody will steal their thunder.
@Chris
Actually the T1i was announced on 3-25-09. That was more than 3 weeks after PMA last year. That isn’t being fashionably late to the party. That is showing up days later without a gift because you lost the invitation and forgot which day it was on.
I still say I will believe it when I see. I don’t think the announcement will be next week. I still think it will be tonight or tomorrow.
Actually, there are two good reasons to delay the annoucement until after a big show.
1) Your press release gets lost among all the other news. Think of blogs and other news outlets, a new camera announcement could be on the front page for much much longer on a regular day. But on a show day, it would be lost within minutes or seconds.
2) They are announcing other things in their lineup that they want attention for, and know that if they announce a major release like a GH-2, that they would get ignored. Perhaps a whole bunch of compact cameras.
What they are not counting on is that sites like this one will get the news early anyway and then it will get announced over a few days with all kinds of inaccuracies instead of all at once.
The correct way to do it is to announce your products several days or maybe a week before PMA. Everyone’s attention is on PMA now. People will start to loose interest if nothing is announced until after PMA.
i hope this is a good one.
Looking at pulling the trigger on an eBay GF-1 and lenses. Should I wait? Will there be a GF2?
“… but a G2 with video recording is going to be unveiled.”
If a G1+ Vidoe (plus sensor and processor) was the GH1… then what is a G2 + Video? Hard to imagine they would release the G2 without the upgraded sensor/processor… basically that is just a re-release of the GH1, there has to be more.
I will be watching the pages at midnight tonight. Will you?