A bathroom clandestine recording? That's the source? C'mon.

Source is very good as Andrea said and also match other reports that I got on Friday.

I've just bought an E-M10 to partner my GX7, and a bunch of m43 glass.

Olympus will stay with m43 for about a year and after this will move into Sony E mount.

Bloomberg article from Jan. 9, 2013 mentions March 31 of 2013 as being a date of change. Do they do big changes every year on March 31st? Perhaps. Isn't that date the end of the first business quarter?

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-09/panasonic-discussing-shutting-businesses-president-tsuga-says.html

@ragnar

Panasonic financial year is ending at March 31.

Well, as a hobbyist, I'll live if it ends up being true. I have a GH2, and a new GX7, both excellent cams. The only glass I have are the wonderful Oly 60mm Macro, the Pana 7-14m, the 100-600mm, and the stock one that came with my GH2. I can shoot my birds and insects with this stuff for decades. I'm not bound by product loyalty. I'll go do my research, like we all do, and match the best features to dollars on the next system I jump into. Hey, I once thought my Commodore 64C was the end of all computing. I guess I was wrong there too.

So sad for my newly aquired cmount Fujinons :(

I'm going out and buy another g6 this very moment ! Actually...I love discontinued systems. Laser discs weren't really cool until they were replaced by dvd's.

It will be stupid to discontinue GH4. There is nothing like it in that category.

This is the crown for the Panny "empire of stupidity" approach to their micro 4/3 G line. Canon had the same paradigm shaking photo/video shift occure with the 5D MII and they leveraged a whole new product line from it, while panny acted like hacking their firmware was akin to feeling up their daughters. As time went by and the AF100 was never updated, I began to get a gut feeling that the G series was in trouble. I bet the head of the pro video line is like the President's son, which caused them to protect their video line above all else, regardless of the changes going on in every other company. I just bought a BMPC because I couldn't devise an easy workflow for my GH2... and that sensor is even smaller!

@Vitaliy. I stand corrected on the GH4 case.

@Renovatio

Remember we still have Taiwan company that bough Kodak brand for cameras. They plan few new cameras.

@tetakpatak "now is only BMCC and NEX left for your lenses"

How do I get them on NEX? It's even shorter than µFT!

Many of them aren't really that great on the BMPCC, missing correction and getting crappy autofocus. Plus, that sensor is small enough for 1" or S-16 glass.

You see, I'm more concerned about my investment in lenses, since that is the bigger investment. OK, most of my vintage glass can go on FF too, but stuff like Voigts or SpeedBoosters become useless!

For quite a while µFT was very attractive because you got excellent quality even for stills in a very compact system. But now there is the Sony A7/A7R and as soon as there is enough genuine glass for it, it might threaten the µFT market. And Sony makes their own sensors, while Panny switched recently, AFAIK.