Interwebz experts doom & gloom tales

[Markuswelder]

What is it with the interwebz experts, & Panasonic. It just never ends. We've listened to it for year after year after year with m4/3, the "experts" are perhaps thinking that perhaps they're wide of the mark there, so now starting on FF. Look at what this @rse clown is attempting to pass off as "fact" Go jump in the sea you idiot. You're guessing.

Panasonic hiatus worries, as flagship cameras remain nowhere to be seen in 2024 - EOSHD.com - Filmmaking Gear and Camera Reviews

I love Panasonic and the innovation they have brought to the market ever since the start of their Leica partnership in the early 2000s. They are pioneers and the result is that boring Canon are on 35% share of the market Panasonic started, and Panasonic is on a pathetic 2.5%. This clearly isn’t...

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[Pete_W]

There certainly are a lot of critics out there who like to complain about Panasonic. And some very inconsistent reviewers (e.g. S9 bad because no EVF, XM5 good despite no EVF, no IBIS and dubious looking AF).

This EOS guy can't have done much research based on this comment:

>> Panasonic can sit back, draw Micro Four Thirds to a final conclusion with the GH7, and sell off remaining Lumix inventory of old full frame sensors​

>> and lenses by churning out a few S9 bodies and the S5 Mark II or whatever the S5D is supposed to be. It is notable that none of those have a new​

>> sensor, they all reuse the very old but still capable S1 sensor,​

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The S5II and S9 both have on-sensor PDAF which the S1 does not have. They are not the same sensor.

The article reads like a childish rant.

 

[pdk42]

Well, it's just baseless speculation. And clearly the guy has no imagination:

The bad thing for us who remain invested in Lumix, is that they have hid it and not been honest. At least in my opinion, because I can see no other explanation for what we’re witnessing.

Can see no other explanation? I can think of loads:

- They have delayed the launch to give time for the SL3 to establish itself.
- They will replace all the current S1 models with a super-hybrid and the engineering effort is taking time.
- They have hit some snags in field testing and need time to resolve them.
- They want to time the launch to coincide with the new year (they did this with the S5ii).
- They want to build inventory of the new models so that the launch will hit the ground running.
- ...

I mean really..."no other explanation" ! What a fool!