Panasonic will announce a new Panasonic 12mm f1.4 Summilux ASPH lens on June 15! The lens has the “Leica” brand. The close focus distance is 20cm and the filter size of 62mm. There is yet no info about the price and possible shipment date. The current other [shoplink 60402 ebay]25mm Summulix lens from Panasonic is priced around 600 Euro/Dollars[/shoplink].

Stay tuned on 43rumors and follow the announcement live on 43rumors at 5-6am London time of June 15!

One more thing: There is yet no rumor about a possible camera announcement coming too. So don’t expect to see a GH5 tomorrow…

via Digicameinfo

The russian company Zenit will soon announce a new Lomography 85mm f/2 LTM lens. These are the first images of the lens of the M-mount version. Not sure yet if there will be a ntive MFT version or if you need an adpater for this one.

Source: Mirrorlessrumors.com

The current Sony FT sensors listed at Sony.net.

A trusted soruce sent me this:

“I was told that the sensor in the GH5 will be fitted with the sensor out of the GX80, but with the ability to make the most of its output because of better processing and cooling.”

This means the GH5 will use the current 16 megapixel Sony made MFT sensor.

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I keep receiving multiple feedback from different sources saying that the Kumamoto earthquake disaster had a much greater negative impact than officially stated by the companies. As you know I recently leaked images and info about the E-PL8 and 30mm macro lens. Both should have been already announced by Olympus. But the current situation is constantly changing as Olympus and Panasonic are still trying to assess the situation.

Two sources told me that it’s highly likely that there will be some major delays and some of the camera expected to ship in 2016 will ship in early 2017 only. The situation affects almost all companies, it’s not only Panasonic-Olympus issue.

So whatever you are hoping to get at Phootkina this year, GH5, E-PL8 or E-M1II. The chances are high the camera will not be available immediately after the announcement!

Tony Northrup analyzed the current status of the photography world and made some predictions about the future. And he believes the Micro Four Thirds system will be one of the few to survive the coming years. While systems like the Nikon 1 and Canon EOS-M are “dead systems” (so he says).

Watch the video above to hear his opinions (Mirrorless system talk starts at 21.30min).

If you need one mroe proof that our 30mm f/3.5 macro lens rumors are correct well check out that Olympus patent spotted by Egami. Those are the google translated specs:

A source (Thanks!) just sent me that image of the new Olympus E-PL8. The camera is likely to be introduced soon along the new 30mm f/3.5 macro lens. Stay tuned on 43rumors!

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Rumors classification explained (FT= FourThirds):
FT1=1-20% chance the rumor is correct
FT2=21-40% chance the rumor is correct
FT3=41-60% chance the rumor is correct
FT4=61-80% chance the rumor is correct
FT5=81-99% chance the rumor is correct