Surprise move: Panasonic launches a leasing service on the G100 and S5II

Now this is something really new: Panasonic Japan now let’s you have the S5IIcamera in leasing.

You pay a monthly fee of 9,900Yen (that’s $67). After 37 months, monthly fee is 1,100 yen ($7). When you cancel your contract, you will receive this product free of charge:

Don’t know if this new kind of sales strategy will be expanded outside Japan. What do you think about this?