Photokina is getting closer and some of you may be confused about what could be announced and what is NOT coming. So here is a list of the cameras and lenses you can expect to see announced. Of course these are rumors only for now :)
Panasonic cameras:
FT5: A new Micro Four Thirds camera.
FT5: A fixed lens Four Thirds sensor compact camera.
FT2: LX8 (article here).
Olympus cameras:
FT5: A new E-PL7 camera (article here).
FT3: A new Silver E-M1 edition and maybe a 4K firmware update (article here).
Lenses:
FT2: Olympus 9mm PRO prime (article here).
FT4: Black Olympus 12mm f/2.0 lens (article here).
FT4: Olympus 40-150mm PRO lens (article here).
FT5: Panasonic 35-100mm lens (article here).
FT5: Olympus 7-14mm and 300mm PRO lenses (article here).
FT5: Panasonic 150mm f/2.8 lens (article here).
Third party stuff:
FT5: Zyoptics 42,5mm f/1.2 coming (article here).
FT5: Samyang 50mm f/1.5 for MFT (article here).
FT4: Schneider Kreuznach lenses (article here).
What’s not going to happen:
No Olympus Full Frame camera (article here).
No 100-300mm X from Panasonic (article here).
No Panasonic G7 (article here).
No GF camera coming this year (article here).
Like you see there are really many new MFT lenses to come!
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Rumors classification explained (FT= FourThirds):
FT1=1-20% chance the rumor is correct
FT2=21-40% chance the rumor is correct
FT3=41-60% chance the rumor is correct
FT4=61-80% chance the rumor is correct
FT5=81-99% chance the rumor is correct