Last week Nikkei stated that Panasonic was moving the camera business under a new umbrella division. The problem with that report was that they used the word “dismantle” whcih could have been interpreted as they would somehow reduce their camera business. But I am glad to read that Panasonic just released that official statement:

‘The recent article featured on the Nikkei regarding Panasonic’s Imaging business was not announced by Panasonic and refers to a change in our internal organizational structure.
Integrating all consumer electronics divisions, our consumer Digital Imaging business will move under Panasonic Appliances Company and is not being dismantled.
The aim of this change is to further deepen our relationships with customers, strengthen our product capabilities, and continue to firmly develop and promote our business.’

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via Dpreview

Apertus confirmed via Facebook that the first Stock of their Axiom Open Source MFT mount camera will ship out before June. It took quite a while for them to finish the development after the successful financing through Indiegogo back in 2014!

They use a Kodak Foru Thirds sensor which has the following specs:

And those are the key features of the camera:

Take 5 GH5 Freestylin’ outtake with Gramski

Well that’s surely original! A RAP song for the GH5 :)

Check the GH5 in Stock status at [shopcountry 65368]. And here are a few new videos:

Image Quality in Good Light

Best 4K Camera of 2017 – Panasonic GH5 Unboxing & First Look

First Panasonic GH5 cage from 8Sinn

Panasonic LUMIX DMC-FZ2500 Review (Steve Digicams).
Throwback Thursday: Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ1, travel zoom pioneer (Dpreview).
New ELB 1200 Elinchrom Ultimate Outdoor Unit announced.
LX100 Review at Photographiccentral.
The 5 Best Cameras Of 2016 (Adorama Learning Center)
Quick Look: Teradek Sphere (Explora).

Plenty of news on the facebook E-M1II group and the GH5 group.

On March 29 at 1pm EDT (New York time) you can follow the livestream event at BHphoto (Click here). Submit a question on Twitter for a chance to win a GH5 camera!

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Olympus PEN-F // M.Zuiko 12-40mm @20mm // F9.0 // 1/200s // ISO 80
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Nikkei reports that Panasonic will dismantle six of their divisions. The camera division will be put under the umbrella of other business division to streamline the costs:

The proposal drawn up by Panasonic’s business planning department, based on President Kazuhiro Tsuga’s ideas, calls for reforms to six money-losing businesses.

digital cameras, private branch exchange telephone systems and optical disk drives — will be dismantled. Each will be scaled back and placed under the umbrella of other operations, with headcount to be reduced.

This is an effort to reduce personal and costs. What’s also interesting is that they plan to quite from the semiconductor business. But as reported by Nikkei:

Restructuring is not enough; company needs new growth drivers

And the current Panasonic plan seems to not focus on finding new growth drivers :(