Shoten annonced two new L-mount adapters (Leica R and Leica M). They will cost around 16.000 ¥ in Japan. No info about the international price and shipment start. Those adapters will be sold in EU and US under the Kipon brand name.

The image above shows the silhouette of seven future Panasonic lenses. it might well be that they are only a random “placeholder” image. But just for fun…based on the size and form what lenses coudl they be?

My guess:

1) 50mm f/2.8
2) 85mm f/1.8
3) 24-70mm f/2.8
4) 85mm f/1.4
5) 35mm f/1.4
6) 24mm f/2.0
7) 35mm f/2.8

And your bet on what?

If you look at Google Trends you will notice that after the Photokina spike the S1 and S1R cameras got little searches on Google compared to regular Panasonic MFT cameras. This is normal as Panasonic has not unveiled any more news about these cameras and nobody had the chance to test the camera. I am curious to see how this will change once the cameras will be released with full specs, preorder options and most importantly first reviews.

What you see here on top is the image of the first 8K 60p Panasonic camcorder featuring their own Panasonic-Fuji developed ORGANIC sensor! Panasonic unveiled some info about it:

• Global Shutter (exposes all pixels at the same time and read the data all at once). This will at last kill the distortion caused by rolling shutters.
• 88 at 60fps
• Panasonic said the sensor has “high sensitivity” and “wide dynamic range” but did not share exact numbers
• It has a step less electronic ND filter (Panasonic said it does NOT change color balance when using it)
• Sensor can switch between “high-sensitivity” mode and “high-saturation” mode

I can’t wait to see that sensor in use on future Panasonic MFT and L-mount cameras!

More info about that sensor on this previous 43rumors article.

If you haven’t seen it yet check it out: panasonic.com/global/consumer/lumix/lumix-design.html