arndmartin

All resent discussions about the future of m43 after the announcement of the L-mount alliance keep on making a couple of mistakes IMHO: 1. Ignoring the advances in computational photography now mainly driven and available to users in smartphones but sure to come in full to consumer and pro cameras 2. Being usually to or even fully stills centric. Today as back in the film days, which are actually still alive in filmmaking, film negatives or sensors are usually smaller than common formats in still photography. And m43 has a very strong position there 3. Focus only on specs or the sake of specs. E.g. a Nikon D3s is still a perfectly usable and money making professional camera, thus a fully professionally usable sport and wildlife m43 camera would need to catch up with a D3s in ISO and dynamic range, not the latest models including an a9 4. Overestimating the issues Panasonic will have to maintain two camera platforms. Actually now, after the announcement of Panasonic's entry into 35 mm equivalent sensor sized cameras, Olympus is about the only camera company supporting only one interchangeable lens camera system. Even Hasselblad and PhaseOne have more than one platform, Leica has three mounts, so has Canon while Nikon, Pentax and Fuji each have two live ones 5. No, m43 is smaller than "FF" and APS-C. AND IF the cameras, for example, are large, like mainly the GH5 and GH5s they DO something with that size other cameras and formats cannot do, namely leading in body stabilization (at least the GH5) and most of all dissipating heat from unlimited 4k filming There was also a remark about m43 not being seen abroad in shops, I guess abroad is outside the US. I am from Germany and live now in Singapore. In both countries, m43 gear is a standard part of any camera store. Earlier this year I went to Bandung in Indonesia and the leading camera store and photo studio, Jonas Photo, prominently featured Panasonic cameras in its store