Mr. Yoshiyuki Inoue and Mr. Shozo Katagiri form Panasonic interviewed on DSRLmagazine
Really, the spanish DSLRmagazine is becoming one of my favorite websites. They know how to make interviews!
A lot of infos were given by Mr. Yoshiyuki Inoue and Mr. Shozo Katagiri form Panasonic. You can read the google english translation by clicking here.
And here the key points of the interview:
1) Panasonic doesn’t work on a “double-capture sensor” because of the complex patent system
2) No Global Shutter for now 
3) The new cameras G2 and G10 not only incorporate general improvements to autofocus by contrast, it also will provide better results (especially autofocus speed) with the objectives Four Thirds, when used via adapter.
4) We are not ruling out the entry of new “players” inside the MicroFourThirds world 
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Comment from don: Ark-kun
I apologize as I have offende...
Comment from Ark-kun: >Microsoft maybe stole Makintosh idea...- Comment from don: Does seem a shame that patents may be st...
Comment from Duarte Bruno: FUCK PATENTS! VIVA LA EUROPE!
Amen!
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Duarte Bruno
3 years ago |“No Global Shutter for now”
GODAMMIT!
Luis
3 years ago |“No Global Shutter for now”
Well, the question is: If the GH2 that might come at Photokina did have a global shutter, would they have answered: “Yes, we’re working on it and it will be part of out upcoming GH2 camera”?
Probably not. So I wouldn’t completely discard the idea of a shutterless GH2 in September. Time will tell.
Rumonger
3 years ago |“The new cameras G2 and G10 not only incorporate general improvements to autofocus by contrast, it also will provide better results (especially autofocus speed) with the objectives Four Thirds, when used via adapter.”
Good news for Four Thirds lens owners.
It seems Panasonic does a turn about and supports Four Thirds lenses again now. Apparently it realizes the lost sales to Olympus microFT because of Panasonic microFT body inability to auto focus existing Four Thirds lenses.
It still has no IS with non stabilized FT lenses, though.
kesztió
3 years ago |Sorry for ugly words + bad English, but
FUCK PATENTS! VIVA LA EUROPE!
Duarte Bruno
3 years ago |FUCK PATENTS! VIVA LA EUROPE!
Amen!
Sorry also, this timefor bringing together FUXK & Amen in the same post.
don
3 years ago |Does seem a shame that patents may be standing in the way of implimentation of technological advances such as the double capature sensor designed for implimentation of the electronic global shutter? When several companies are spending millions of dollars and a lot of time researching how to best impliment this doesn’t seem fair to issue a patent to the first one managing to get a piece of paper into the patent office claiming it was their idea?
Seems very strange what bureacrats in a patent office are willing to grant a patent for in these days based on some of the patent applications and approvals? Sort of like the way Microsoft maybe stole Makintosh ideas (who in turn had got the idea from the way CAD programs work) for an operating system then patented it to make others pay royalites to them to use the same?Just my own admitedly biased opinions.
Ark-kun
3 years ago |>Microsoft maybe stole Makintosh ideas (who in turn had got the idea from the way CAD programs work) for an operating system then patented it to make others pay royalites to them to use the same?
I officially curse you. You will soon start to feel its effects.
That curse cannot be lifted until you educate yourself, write your findings here, stop saying things that are not true, track every person who have read you lies and tell them the truth.
don
3 years ago |Ark-kun
I apologize as I have offended you and wish to retract my last paragraph and any references I made to Microsolf in its entirety as my wording was totally inappropriate and wrong. In my opinion and only that, CAD programs were some of the first inovators of a graphical interface which concept was used by Makintosh in implimentation of their operating system, followed by Microsoft which created their own version of a graphical interface which is now universally used. I was simply using this as an example as at the time I did not believe that Windows was anything completely unique in concept but that is only as I said my biased opinion and not fact.