Olympus Corporation and Panasonic Corporation have set the No. 1 market share by lens mount in the Japanese interchangeable lens digital camera market in 2019.

It says a lot about domestic Japanese market.

From m43rumors about Panasonic plans on this year

• Release new Micro Four Thirds camera bodies
• Release new L-mount S lenses for their Full Frame camera

All new m43 bodies can be actual rehash of existing ones.

Olympus is old, really old

I can appreciate the reason for heavily promoting the full frame cameras, because if they aren't successful, it could end up taking the whole Panasonic camera division down with them. At best, I would think that m4/3 will be their "second tier" of cameras, with the FF system being the main earner from now on.

@Energy80s

Main goal now is same as Sony - reach target profit numbers not looking at sales volume. After this make efficient personnel cuts to get bigger bonuses. Recently maximum time they look ahead dropped to 6-12 months, all else is big unknown. Most probably we will see same fast merger of few departments to hide results (Panasonic is already hiding them for many departments by mixing them).

Panasonic is committed to develop the GH line…

My man inside tells that we definitely will see some kind of GH6 camera. But all else now is in hiatus, only finishing old developments.

@EspenB

Dark are the minds Japanese management of :-) Impossible to see the future is.

@EspenB

I don't think so, more like they try to make some strange moves.

Our local Olympus guys

Friends, more recently, several Russian-speaking resources, citing foreign sources, came up with loud headlines that supposedly, Olympus is closing the photo business. For our part, we want to say that this information is not true. Currently, Olympus is undergoing a comprehensive transformation program to continue its development as a global medical company. The photo business plays an important role as a technology driver for all Olympus business lines, developing advanced digital and network technologies that are also used in our medical and industrial business. We will continue to improve the technology in photography, paying particular attention to our main advantages: compactness of the system, exceptional image stabilization capabilities and high-quality lenses.

Things are really bad in Olympus now.

Expect news within 2-3 months considering their camera business.

All olympus's camera division has to do is follow fujifilm's lead and create a couple of low and midrange kickaxx cameras....let's hope the e-m5mkiii does just this. If they don't, and fumble like the e-m1x, people should support pany's m43's. M43 has a great advantage no matter how cheap ff cameras get.....the glass ....ff glass is big and heavy and expensive. Not to mention how well m43 cameras are adaptable, and how well sensor stabilization works on sensors this size. Olympus, however has always been an ify corporation, once accused of being infiltrated by the yakuza, even though their technology is firstrate. Panasonic might be left holding the flag. That's ok by me too, although prices might climb. Maybe if Olympus folds, Sony would see a window. If they announced the death of m43, I'd go out and buy 3 or 4 bodies immediately. It's even preferable to aps-c, which would be the last fallback against the ff hysteria.

Obviously they focus on their new FF for now, so no wonder there's only one lens to be released in 2019- especially since there're dozens of various m43 lenses on the market already. Saying it'll be the last m43 lens ever is pure BS.