So create an entirely new universal mount or have Canon & Nikon as the 2 main mounts or Nikon or Canon as the only main mount? Fun and a great idea but in what alternate universe is this possible?

In our universe, just after defeat of capitalism.

Making more mounts just means making more parasites on your necks.
And having camera press and bloggers prizing it means that they are service workers of parasites.

As sigma is part of the 3 companies working on this mount, I wonder how their lens prices will affect Panasonic and Leica because I don't see them all of sudden decided to jack up the prices of their lenses. We will know very soon. Wait, I take that back, I am pretty sure they will not announce prices until next year close to when they are about to ship.

Sigma can just add a little to their price and keep line to the selected Art lenses only.

@Vitaliy_Kiselev if Panasonic prices the cameras too high then they will shoot themselves in the foot because Sony is really competitive with the A7R3 and the A73. Canikon blew it with their mirrorless cameras I am not interested at all. The main thing I don't like about the Sony's are the ergonomics. Nikon, Canon, and Panasonic got the ergonomics down packed IMO. We shall see what they do and if Panasonic get's to greedy they will lose out.

@matthere

We'll see. I think not, most probably it will be provided under license.

It is most fun that at the time where industry badly needed fast reduction of different mounts into 1 or 2 companies driven by greed invented just new ones, closed and incompatible.

So Panasonic, Leica, and Sigma are banding together to agree on one type of mount the L-mount? This seems very beneficial for the manufacturers and end users as well. I am very excited about this announcement. Finally we can have one lens mount and purchase cameras from either Panasonic, Sigma or Leica. This sounds to good to be true. Too bad Olympus is not on board that would be the icing on the cake. Am I missing something here?

I am very interested in how this plays out with all party's involved. IMO if Panasonic does this correctly they will be able to convert a big chunk of hybrid shooters over to this new platform. I will wait and see how this all plays out, but I hope Panasonic nails it so I can finally get off of Nikon's NIPPLE LOL

So far specs look great but we shall see.... I also hope that they can nail color science because this is very important to me as well. I love taking pictures without having to finesse the colors saves a lot of time... Fuji has this in spades if Panasonic can nail the color science with this FF camera this might be the home run!

In terms of pricing $3300.00 seems reasonable for the high resolution camera 40mp+ but for a lower resolution camera they need to stick to the $2000.00ish threshold. This is mandatory IMO and would keep them competitive with Sony. Great times that we live in all this technology at our finger tips ;-)

@NickBen

At most we can have 8K or upscaled 8K at 24-30fps until 2020.

Issues and costs of new silicon processes will also play role here.

I have prediction

yesterday it was www.slrumors.com
today it is l-rumors.com
tomorrow it will be.... brain-tumors.com

No 8K though..

L rumors writes what will be possibly announced by Panasonic on September 25th:

1. Entry level Full Frame L-mount camera with IBIS, 4k60p and Low Resolution Sensor
2. Pro level Full Frame L-mount camera with IBIS, 4k60p and High Resolution Sensor (close to 50MP)
3. New Full Frame 24-70mm zoom lens
4. New Full Frame 50mm fast prime
5. New Full Frame 70-200mm zoom prime

Unless it is a L mount with shorter flange depth, which seems unlikely.

"Panasonic-Leica-Sigma will announce a new partnership around the SL mount FF system"

I told you that is why Leica and Panasonic have a press conference in the same room right after each other at Photokina next week.

https://www.slrumors.com/