Nokishita writes:
The North American price of the Panasonic “LUMIX DC-G100 12-32mm kit” announced next week seems to be $747.99. The resolution of the sample image (aspect ratio 3:2, original size) is [5184 x 3456]. #rumor
The camera will be announced on June 24!
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Just to recap what’s coming next:
Today Olympus registered a new Micro Four Thirds lens in Russia. It has the code “IM022”. This might be the 100-400mm lens that is on the roadmap.
Anyway, this is a good day because we now have both Panasonic and Olympus ready to announce new products:
1) Panasonic will announce the vlogger oriented G100 on June 24
2) Olympus will announce another new MFT lens within 1-2 months
MFT ain’t so dead after all ;)
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via Nokishita
UPDATE This post was corrected thanks to Mistral. I initialyl stated there would be a new camera but indeed it’s a new lens
Panasonic will announce the new G100 on June 24. And it’s a “vlogger” oriented camera. No info on specs yet….stay tuned for more!
Image on top shows current G95
At last we are going to get a new MFT camera from Panasonic! Nokishita report that Panasonic will announce “LUMIX DC-G100 (G110 in Germany)” soon. We have no specs yet…but stay tuned as I am sure we will know more about it soon!
A brand new patent confirms that Olympus is playing with the idea to release their own drone. And that Drone would feature a High Quality camera with large sensor and zoom lens. This is how Olympus describes it:
In recent years, an unmanned aircraft, such as a drone, that flies in a remotely handled or autonomous manner has been commercialized. For example, a relatively small unmanned aircraft is utilized due to an advantage that information can be safely and efficiently acquired in a dangerous area that is hard for a manned aircraft to reach, an accident site or a disaster area in which observation at relatively low altitude is required, and the like. A camera is built in the drone or the like to attain the object.
However, a relatively small lens or image pickup device is often used in the built-in camera, and a picked-up image with sufficiently satisfactory image quality may not be obtained. Therefore, a photographing device with high functionality and high performance may be adopted and attached to the unmanned aircraft. Particularly, a camera that can be equipped with a high-performance lens having a zoom function, an autofocus function, and the like can be adopted to easily obtain an image with image quality desired by a user.
Note that a gimbal system that can accurately support a photographing device on a moving body, such as an aircraft, is disclosed in the specification of U.S. Patent Application Publication No. 2016/0014307.
The patent doens’t disclose if that’s going to be a Micro Four Thirds mount camera nor the lens specs. But there are two graphs showing some of the UI and the zoom lens design:
Althaugh this appears to be a fixed lens drone model I think it would be cool to get an Olympus MFT drone camera….what do you think?
Here is a recap of the rumors we posted lately:
Olympus:
– Wild rumor about two PEN-F cameras coming this autumn (article here).
– PEN-FII rumor via UK magazine (article here).
– New major E-M1X firmware update is coming soon (article here).
– There is definitely a 100mm macro on the roadmap (article here).
– 100-400mm lens will be definitely launched this summer (article here).
Panasonic:
– Panasonic will announce new L-mount lenses soon. But there is now word about new MFT gear (article here).
– First super wild rumors about the GH6 specs (article here).
– Panasonic managers promises to energize the MFT world (article here).
