I don’t know why, but after 20 days only after the last compact camera announcement Panasonic today announced more new not so spectacular compact cameras! For those of you wondering when the LX5 successor is coming I haven’t received any info yet. I only know the Olympus XZ-1 successor is coming this summer (not yet).
Anyway, I am sure the next announcement is for m43 related stuff only and I expect this to be right before the CP+ show in Yokohama (mid February). The only thing I am (almost) sure of is that the new X lenses will be released.
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I would say Panasonic is waiting for the dust to settle a bit around the Olympus announcement, then they will start leaking GH3 info to keep people from buying the Olympus. 😉
You may be right! I have been surprised why Panasonic doesn’t leak anything leaving this way of marketing open for Olympus. Or could they try to steal the show at the actual announcement?
Pretty interested to hear a bit more about what we might get from the new X lenses. Price, availability, quality, aperture. Anything you can get for us Admin?
Price is a also big concern for me!
Panny reaching out to its core audience by offering cameras that match your outfits. 😀
Let the TOYS with a Lens coming from Panny, fill the need of some of P&S market,..Does Panny have a serious photography tool with a new sensor that can match the Upcoming olympus camera ?
It’s time for Panny to get serious and make some quality,weather sealed {a photography tool},not like gf3 or g3,.even the new GX1 its not competent against EP-3 with an OLD -USED/TWEAKED SENSOR .
yes GX1 have better clean ISO against EP-3,..but also losing the detail,..I better have a pict with a noise image result but great detail rather than to have pict with LESS NOISE BUT SMEARED COLOR & AND LOSING DETAIL.
And RAW would be? Because all serious photographers have never heard of it.
Panny’s Jpeg engine can only get better, it seems to be evolving.
Admin, both of the auction links are incorrect.
I hope all these new x-lenses doesn’t mean we’ll not get more regular fast lenses. I’m not very interested in motor-zooms and have been more than a little disapopinted in Panasonic lately.
X-lenses do not necessarily have to be power zooms. As far as I understood X means that the lenses bear some nano surface coating. Nothing to do with power zoom. I think X-lenses could be as well prime lenses.
You may be right. Even the PL 25 has an X in its product designation code.
“[…] Panasonic is keen to point out that while the first lenses with this designation are ‘HD’ powerzooms, that’s not what the ‘X’ means. Instead it simply designates a premium line of high-performance products; […] However upcoming ‘X’ lenses could be of any type: prime, power zoom, or conventional mechanical zoom.”
Source: http://www.dpreview.com/previews/panasonic_x_14-42_3p5-5p6/
If only this (rugged TS4/FT4) was the camera they built the Lumix Phone around.
+1
Sony will beat them to it. They’ve already got waterproof phone and their waterproof cameras are one generation ahaid.
Oct26 Some great info on the product in qosutien and the comparison against DSLR’s fits well with my views too. When it comes to broadcast deliverables Im going to be more inclined to go with the AF102 with Nano Flash set up than a DSLR rig.You answered a lot of my concerns and qosutiens that were lingering in the back of my mind.ThanksI will no doubt be rocking one of these in my kit come Jan 2011.
Genau das meinte ich damals! Erst schreibst Du hier über den Anbieter, dann postest Du sogar jede neue Auktion, so dass die Preise explorieren. Und jetzt sollen wir Dir ein paar Schnäppchen überlassen????
OK, verdient hast Du es durch Deine wirklich tolle Arbeit mit dieser Seite auf jeden Fall, aber dass Olympusmarket durch Dich von einem Tag auf den anderen uniteressant wurde ärgert mich immer noch.
I know enough german to understand this posting is “einfach toll”.
Toll fur die admin, aber nicht fur die kaufer, das ist was er sagt 🙂 und das ist mein bestes deutsch…
It difficult to give birth this GH3!
Quad indicator!!! Lol how dumb do they think their customers are?
You will not see GH3 and GF7 on CP+
If they release a GX1 with integrated EVF (rangefinder style, not G3) I will crap my pants.
I’ll just buy it! The GX1 with integrated viewfinder that it, not your pants.
That’s a bit how I see the upcoming Olympus, an E-P3 with integrated EVF. A GX1 with rangefinder style EVF would be equally attractive… No… Correction… A GX1 with rangefinder style EVF would be pretty much perfect.
In fact, the regular GX1 is currently my second choice if the Olympus turns out to be a dud. (The NEX7, ironically, being third.)
I will cry if I won´t see GH3 in february …
I love the TS series, great in the summer and for travel. I’d like to see a tough version of the LX with some manual control, a high quality compact for boating and diving is sorely needed and underwater casings tend to be bulkier than tough cameras.
+1000
A submersible version of the LX5 would be fantastic!
I have an Olympus 1030SW per-tough tough camera and it’s great having a tiny, zero-worry camera. It’s a shame it doesn’t have very good image quality.
I was looking to replace the 1030SW with a TS4, but they kept the screen resolution at 230,00 pixels, while the new Olympus Tough TG-810 has 920,000. A bummer it only does 720p video, while the TS4 does full 1080p.
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