Well Panasonic manager Yosuke Yamane just spilled out some beans at an interview with Lesnumeriques:
- Eight years ago Panasonic had the idea to go Full Frame but at the time there were technical and commercial challenges
- Two years ago they started to look for an alliance around a Full Frame platform. At the beginning of 2018 they approached Leica and Sigma.
- Why is Olympus not on board with this? Yosuke said “we do not really have the same vision. Our directions are different now, on this format“
- The new AI autofocus system works on the question of “where to focus”. For example we use deep learning to track flying birds or human eyes
- Panasonic has abandoned the smart phone project and there will be no follow-up of the CM1 (here on Amazon).
- Panasonic does not think the smart phone market is a threat for MFT
Will Olympus regret this decision???
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