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PV: Many members of the āPersonal Viewā community are shooting with the Micro Four Thirds (MFT) system digital cameras including many of the Panasonic MFT system products. Therefore when during the Leica and then Panasonic press conferences prior to the opening of Photokina 2018 we have learned about new L-mount alliance, many of our community members become concern that MFT system is in danger because of these new series of L-mount cameras.Ā Can you give us some insight on the destiny of the Panasonic MFT products?ā¦
ā¦Ā PV: Will the new L-mount system affect the Panasonic development of new MFT products, for example will some of the proposed MFT lenses be delayed? Another concern is that the MFT could be refocused primarily towards the basic entry-level of cameras, eliminating the semi-professional MFT category of products. Will the MFT cameras have the same attention from the best Panasonic engineers and designers, or it will suffer from lack of resources?ā¦
⦠PV: How do you see the future development of the MFT cameras? For example, one of my favorite MFT camera series is a rangefinder-style GX line, such as GX8. I have noticed that in latest GX-series release, the Lumix GX9 camera is more GX7-alike than GX8, similar to GX7 in size and less advanced in some of its features than GX8, such as weather-sealing, OLED viewfinder, fully articulated display, or availability of external microphone port. Can we expect another series of the compact rangefinder style MFT camera with more advanced features, or all future MFT cameras with advanced features will be solely designed in GH5-style of camera bodies?ā¦ā
Panasonic Lumix DC-GX9 with optional screw-attached hand grip that must be removed to access SD cards and batteries. The DC-GX9 reportedly has short battery life so you may well be unscrewing this hand grip many times throughout the day.
Optional normal-sized eye-cup for Panasonic Lumix DC-GX9 on tilting EVF is a must the shooting in daylight outdoors.
Panasonic Lumix DMC-GX8 professional rangefinder-style camera with Panasonic Lumix G X Vario 12-35mm f/2.8 Aspheric Power OIS lens.
The Panasonic Leica DG Summilux 12mm f/1.4 Aspheric prime lens is also well-balanced on the GX8.
The Panasonic Lumix DMC-GX8ās fully articulated monitor beats any tilting or fixed LCD monitor screen especially in combination with its tilting EVF.
There is much more to the conversation between Personal ViewāsĀ Igor Drozdovsky and PanasonicāsĀ Adviser for Technical PR Mr Michiharu Uematsu, theĀ Imaging Sectionās Ms Emi Fujiwara and Engineer Mr Taku Kariyazaki than the questions above of whether Panasonic will be dropping development of the professional cameras in the GX series and whether the company will also cease development of its Micro Four Thirds cameras and lenses in favour of the 35mm sensor cameras and lenses of the recently announced S Series.
I recommend reading the interview in full for those of us with the same questions as asked by MrĀ Drozdovsky, and I hope that answers about the future of pro-quality rangefinder-style GX cameras will soon be provided by Panasonic.
I seriously hope that Panasonic will not be trying to tell us that pro-quality DSLR-style cameras must now somehow replace pro-quality tilting EVF rangefinder-style cameras just as I hope the company will not try to convince us that 3-way tilting monitors must now always replace fully articulated monitors.
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Personal View: Destiny of [Panasonic] m43 mount cameras, how soon production willĀ stop PV: Many members of the āPersonal Viewā community are shooting with the Micro Four Thirds (MFT) system digital cameras including many of the Panasonic MFT system products.