Rumors Panasonic announcement on October 17th

[Quentinquirelino]

That does not cannibalize Leica's sales, because it is a different lens mount.

E-Mount is as different lens mount as is L-Mount compared to M-Mount.

The GR was not hyped in the media. Still the demand is that high, that they sell it in Asia as a lottery.

High demand regarding the low production volume.

It is normal business risk for every entrepreneur. You are never sure how long demand will last. Nobody would be producing cameras in 2025, without this entrepreneurship. Look how sales crashed since 2012.

But the manufacturers, not only Panasonic, obviously are thinking it's not worth it.

I do not worry about profitability of Panasonic. I am concerned that Panasonic ignores specific products, which its customer base is demanding, because of "gentlemen agreements" between Leica and Panasonic.

Not only Panasonic is ignoring it. Also Nikon and Canon. And Sony took a decade to renew the RX1. Maybe you overestimate the demand or all the manufacturers are missing out.

If Panasonic wants to gain significant amounts of overall market share, they should release some cheap APS-C camera with L-Mount and a couple of cheap lenses for it. That's by far the biggest market.

 

[Quentinquirelino]

Back to the topic. I think a S1HII is not completely unrealistic. But I think the highest chances are just some software updates for the latest models.

 

[Mister Sloane]

I expect the long awaited and promised firmware update for the S5ii(X) and GH7.

Lumix Flow support and some other upgrades, like improved autofocus.

Might be the last real update for the S5ii(X)- I hope not though.

It looks like LUMIX Flow will be updated on 20 October.

There was a Reddit post a couple of days ago with screenshots that purported to be from Pansonic’s website, which showed this.

When I did a web search, in the results this came up: “What's New 20th Oct. 2025 LUMIX Flow 1.3.0 released (iOS/iPadOS/Android) ・Supports DC-S5M2,DC- S5M2X,andDC-GH7. ・Added UI display optimized for…”. Clicking on the link for the main LUMIX Flow webpage doesn’t have the information showing at the moment though.

 

[Nevyn72]

It looks like LUMIX Flow will be updated on 20 October.

There was a Reddit post a couple of days ago with screenshots that purported to be from Pansonic’s website, which showed this.

When I did a web search, in the results this came up: “What's New 20th Oct. 2025 LUMIX Flow 1.3.0 released (iOS/iPadOS/Android) ・Supports DC-S5M2,DC- S5M2X,andDC-GH7. ・Added UI display optimized for…”. Clicking on the link for the main LUMIX Flow webpage doesn’t have the information showing at the moment though.

Cool, thanks for the 100% conformation. But this also means a big firmware update for my S5iiX