Panasonic has confirmed that it intends to continue its development in Micro Four Thirds not only in its high-end cameras like the GH5 II and GH6, leaving the door open to successors to its other Lumix cameras.

During an online event called Creators Live with Lumix GH6, Panasonic indicated that it plans to continue to support a wide range of Micro Four Thirds cameras. The company’s marketing manager Tomonori Nakanishi seems to commit to bringing new versions of cameras from across Panasonic’s lineup.

“We believe in the diverse possibilities of Micro Four Thirds, and we are developing such diversified products,” Nakanishi says. “In today’s world where full-size machines are becoming more popular in a sense, it may be a unique approach to develop the full-size lineup in-house and at the same time to develop the Micro Four Thirds lineup in full-scale. However, I believe that this approach will allow the GH6 to establish a very sharp and unique position in the world at this moment.”

Nakanishi’s words echo the company’s previous stances behind the smaller-sensor format it was instrumental in founding along with Olympus, now OM Digital Solutions. In 2020, Panasonic publicly stated that Micro Four Thirds was a precious asset that it intended to continue to support. In May of last year when Panasonic first announced it was developing the GH6, it did so in concert with the GH5 Mark II as a message of its support of the format into the future.