@erikn How high is it? I'm thinking about going all Thelma & Louise with my GH3.

I really don't know what to say. I'm devastated. I have tirelessly been copying in months and months of all your personal-view suggestions to my contacts and they were being forwarded to Japan. They were really taking notice... and mentioned some truly amazing products being lined up for the years ahead. I actually believe things are taking a turn - with so many DSLR users coming over to m43. I really hope this huge response will stop them in their tracks. I just can't get my head round this... We live in a cruel world where time to develop is not respected.

@zoomjockey It's not so much the hit in $$$ I will take on the lenses, but rather the fact the FF trolls ended up being right all along. I feel like I've just been erased from history! 43 rumors will become a f*cking wasteland where loyalists are wiped off the map by endless bombardment of "sensor compensation" delivered by dweebs who subsist on leftover meatloaf and pure unadulterated hate for my beloved aspect ratio. I am in dire need of a Hitler vid to adequately express my frustration!

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.

@nobbystylus

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

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.

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.

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

@zigizigi

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

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.

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 !

@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.

I can't bealive that.