Kind of ironic that we now have a sort of MFT camera that is selling hot on Kickstarter (Click here). Switchlens has raised over $250,000 and there are still 30 days left. I never thought this project would become a success.
So apparently this design was just shown at Photokina 2014 as a concept of future Panasonic cameras, it was made by German design studio WerterOberfell (WertelOberfell GbR). This grip was planned to be in next gen GM1 (maybe GM5, maybe something newer) interchangable (so you could have different fronts) but it was canceled after the change of management. And the craziest part is that this Lumix is 1 of 3 that were created. One of those was kept by WerterOberfell and two were given to higher management (I guess Panasonic?). It is just mind blowing for me.
Lucky him!
These are the images of the three custom made GM1 cameras: