Panasonic Japan announced it will celebrate the 20th anniversary on October 27th. I am unsure if there will be any L-mount announcement…

For the record: On October 27, 2011 Panasonic announced the “Lumix L1″(here on eBay). it was (and is still) a very good looking camera!

At the end of the interview I really got excited to hear about the new Foveon Full Frame L-mount camera. I think this will be a very exciting new toy to play with 🙂

On Weibo Panasonic published the official letter from the director Yosuke Yamane. In this he writes:

1. No intention to seel the Lumix business
2. We are committed to grow both the FF and MFT format
3. After the GH5II and Gh6 we are committed to release more impressive products

On October the 12th, SIRUI launch the 50mm T2.9 1.6x Full-Frame Anamorphic Lens on Indiegogo. It is the First Full-Frame Anamorphic Lens from SIRUI with squeeze factor-2.8:1 CinemaScope Aspect Ratio.

Key specs:

👉Wider than Wide features a 1.6 times squeeze factor
👉Immersive Experience – 2.8:1 CinemaScope Aspect Ratio
👉Match Perfectly with Full frame Cameras for RF, L, E, Z mount
👉Beautiful Oval Bokeh
👉Vibrant Lens Flares
👉A Maximum Aperture of T2.9
👉Solid Build Quality

Matti Sulanto posted the first ever review of the new lens:

The lens will be available soon on this page: comingsoon.higizmos.com/greatjoy

The Chinese company Higizmos company released a new full-frame anamorphic cinema lens called “Great Jo”. It’s a low-cost 60mm 1.33x anamorphic lens priced at US$749. It’s made of 13 elements and 10 groups optical structure​​​​. No idea if this thing will be sold outside China too. The images show the E-mount version but there will be a L-mount version too.