We had many rumors and it’s time for a summary
1) By ealry July Panasonic will announce a new camera which will not be comparable with any camera released by Panasonic before. We are not talking about long awaited LX3LX3
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successor. The LX4 (or LX5) will be announced late July or before Photokina. And we are not talking about a camera with interchangeable lenses. The sources did not tell us exactly how it will look like but we from 43rumors believe it will be a MicroFourThirds camera with fixed lens (like the Sigma DP2
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2) A bird told me that we should take a close look on this: http://43rumors.com/a-bird-told-me-you-should-look-at-those-pictures-olympus-modular-camera/
3) A Pentax patent created a lot of buzz. Why? The document shows lenses with the same 21.6mm image circle as Micro Four Thirds!
4) According to the swedish magazine Kamerabild Ricoh will release a Ricoh MicroFourThirds modul for their GXR
5) DSLRphoto wrote a facebook post which says that Tamron could soon make m4/3 lenses.
6) Rumors from others: Samsung is almost ready to launch the new NX100! We found the name of the camera on the Samsung website. There is not more information, but we already know that the NX100 will be a compact camera very similar to the Panasonic GF1
Panasonic GF1
! (source: k-rumors.com)
And now let’s start the new rumors week! 😉
3 Responses
why do you keeping say that “3) A Pentax patent created a lot of buzz. Why? The document shows lenses with the same 21.6mm image circle as Micro Four Thir”
isn’t a 4/3 have a simmilar image circle ?
if yes – this lens maybe for a 4/3 and micro4/3
since there is no flange distance mentioned in patent ( or there is ? ) i guess this is a case .
3) A Pentax patent created a lot of buzz. Why? The document shows lenses with the same 21.6mm image circle as Micro Four Thirds!… It’s very very interesting… but I belive it’s very improbable … if samsung not creed has announced an adapter to lens pentax-k that makes competition with a system micro4/3 of pentax same!
Creed that all we would want to see a great brand to enter in the micro4/3!
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It has been rumoured that Pentax, Tamron, Sigma, Tokina and others are about to start making lenses for m4/3. As yet, we have not seen any but it is good that other manufacturers are interested, assuming that any of the rumours are true, in the m4/3 concept, but how about us “standard” 4/3 users? Apart from Sigma, who seem to be cutting their range, who has shown any interest in 4/3 lenses? This is not a new thing, in the past the 3rd party lens companies released OM mounts as an afterthought.
I know that lenses these days are “electronic” devices full of motors, and I know it is not going to happen, but surely one of the lens giants could produce an equivalent to the T2 mount from the film days. This would be great for folks who used different brands of camera, as they would only need additional “T2” mounts in the gadget bag.
Before anyone starts on about the huge differences in the manufactures requirements, weather sealing, focus and so on, these are just my rambling thoughts.