is that a joke? tomorrow is April Fools' Day

@MikeLinn how can you say all dealers are agitated?

Anyway i do not care if m43 sensors flow away, the important is the improvement in smaller sensor, as we can use in future m43 lens and adapters and speedboster etc.

I can't bealive that.

@ragnar the difference is that you can adapt older obsolete glass to M43, you can't adapt M43 too anything else, so once the cameras are obsolete there is nowhere to use the glass.

What a great opportunity. I'll buy at least 5 g6's for half price ! That'll last me until thru wwlll ! And then V will hack them, and they'll be worth their weight in gold !

Thank God I didn't get that Olympus M.Zuiko zoom like I wanted to! I'll definitely stay with FF lenses from now on as all I have in the m43 mount is my GH2's kit lens. I feel sorry for those who bought a ton of m43 glass.

Perhaps Voigtlander and other popular brands will come out with FF versions.

Is it remotely possible that this little bathroom gab fest was leaked intentionally by Panasonic in order to throw off their competition? Reverse corporate espionage? Otherwise, Canon and Nikon are dancing a jig. They can continue with their over priced, under speced offerings with little to no competition.

@zigizigi

We have few Japanese members, they PMed that translation is pretty accurate.

@kellar42 How much is the "pledge" ? I think I'd call it the m433 instead !

Full frame trolls are going to literally explode on m43 rumors tomorrow, pounding their chests like the alpha gorilla (of mom's basement). ETA - get your popcorn ready.

I can't say I am surprised if that were to be true. We seem to have two basic categories of users; professionals and average consumers. 90% of the consumers are point and shoot and auto mode type. When pocket camera came out a while ago, it was a hit until smartphones showed up with decent cameras and pocket camera went out of business. Now you have companies like olloclip and others who are making wide angle, tele and fish-eye lenses for smartphones. Sony and Samsung are working on 4K video for their smartphones. Check out the Ultrakam camera app in iTunes, it is recording 2K video in 24p with raw footage in 4.2.0 with iphone 5s that takes 3GB for a minute of footage in highest resolution. Cameras in Smartphones and wearable devices will satisfy the needs of majority of the mass consumers. The lines of cameras for professionals and prosumers will separate themselves from consumers by becoming fancier and using full frame sensors and technology that can't be accommodated with wearable devices. There are plenty of signs out there that flag these changes if we due the diligence to pay attention to them. My 2 cents.

@nobbystylus

Hard to upset you, but it is real stuff. Just not cheap as it is handmade.

I do not see much reason to panic about preorders. Many on this site are still using their GH2's and there is no reason to suspect that Panasonic will stop repair support for their cameras. Some of us may take a hit on the value of our lens collection or might just be able to buy other lenses for less money. New GH4's have many years of imaging ahead of them. If this rumor proves to be true it will just make me hold onto lenses since no newer lenses will be coming from Panasonic. I am baffled by this.