The Japanese site DC.watch interviewed Panasonic manager to talk about the present and future of photography.

– High Megapixel cameras are coming (from all manufacturers). Megapixel race will never go away says Panasonic
– Panasonic is working on 6K and 8K video recording. 8K will come before 2020 (Olympic year).
– The ultimate “dream” is to beat the human eye performance
– There is the potential to use pure electronic shutter only
– Micro Four Thirds is the perfect sensor size for Panasonic. But they not rule out to create a second larger sensor size system.
– A medium format camera from Panasonic is highly unlikely to happen :)

You can follow the Panasonic CES press conference live on that page: panasonicces2015.com. I am yet not sure Panasonic will announce new MFT cameras at CES. CP+ show is the more “ideal” event for that. But there may be new compact cameras and video cameras they will show at CES. Panasonic itself writes about CES:

In addition to 4K camcorders and twin camera compatible camcorders, visitors will also be able to try LUMIX cameras equipped with the “4K Photo” function, which enables users to capture one-of-a-kind, memorable still photos from 4K videos, as well as a wide range of semi-professional 4K products.

43rumors reader W. (Thanks) shared that image of the official answer he got from Olympus. The Open Platform project will take place in Japan only. So there is no way for non-Japanese residents to join the program :(

opc.olympus-imaging.com/tools/#opc

Wondering what are the 2014 most read articles on 43rumors? Here they are:

First place: (FT5) First images of the new Olympus E-M10!
Second place: (FT5) First Panasonic GH4 images!
Third place: (FT5) Hot! New Olympus OMD camera to be announced at Photokina in September!
Fourth place: Readers stories: 7 Reasons Olympus OMD-EM5 is the Best Travel DSLR (Chris Vervaeke)
Fifth place: (FT5) Panasonic will launch a new GM2 with built-in EVF!
Sixth place: (FT5) E-M5 successor has sensor shift to create up to 40 megapixel images on the fly!
Seventh place: First pictures of the next two Olympus PRO zooms: 7-14mm f/2.8 and 300mm f/4.0!
Eight place: (FT5) First images of the new Olympus lenses!
Ninth place: (FT4) Olympus 7-14mm f/2.8 to be announced soon? Priced at around $1,799.
Tenth place: (Fool Days Joke) Panasonic will restructure camera division. Micro Four Thirds project will be killed and focus now on Full Frame!

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Fuji confirmed that there is still a long time to go before organic sensors will find their way in mass production cameras (More info at MirrorlessRumors). As you know that kind of sensor is developed in conjunction with Panasonic. I guess it will take at least 2-3 years before we geta MFT camera with such sensor. But maybe in the meantime other new tech will surface that will make that kind of organic sensor useless anyway…

Reminder:
On paper the new Organic sensor has the following advantages over conventional sensors:
1) it has only 1/6 of the thickness of the current sensors
2) Increased Dynamic range of 88dB
3) 1,2 ISO stops more sensitive
4) range of incident angles of 60 degrees, efficiently utilizing light entering at an angle for faithful color reproduction with no color mixing. It also gives greater flexibility in lens designs, facilitating the reduction of overall camera size.

The full press release can be found here: 43rumors.com/hot-news-panasonic-and-fuji-developed-the-first-organic-sensor/

DC.watch interviewed the Olympus managers Masamichi and Suzuki. And those are some of the key info they shared:

– We are not focused on classic Mirrorless cameras only. We also work on completely new kind of cameras (like the Open Platform Lens Camera prototype).
– Olympus says MFT has the best size-quality balance. And Olympus main priority is to strengthen the line.
– Olympus acknowledges the trend now goes toward more high Megapixel cameras
– On the tech front Olympus wants to make cameras that are faster, consume less, better High ISO and with increased Dynamic Range.
– There is a possibility to also use different kind on non-Bayer sensor.
– electronic shutter is also likely to be introduced in future
– we are “investigating” the possibility to make a Four Thirds sensor and fixed lens compact camera
– we have no specific plan yet to use larger sensors (like Full Frame).
– we plan to improve video quality on future cameras (60p and 4K for example).