Hogan begins to talk positive about Micro Four Thirds

"The one exception at the moment is m4/3: since this started as a partnership and grew into a consortium, it has multiple players all riffing off one another. I suspect collusion, as well, as the fact that most of the lenses coming out of the m4/3 group are not directly competitive with one another; each player seems to be picking different fruit to grow, and that usually doesn't happen without cooperative decision making.
Still, m4/3 is doing well partly because it's an ecosystem, and the sum of the parts are greater than the sum of the parts. People look at the lens choice and decide they'll buy an m4/3 body because of that. Say what? They didn't buy a camera because it's Brand X and then choose lenses? Does that happen? Yes, it does, but not in the minds of the executives running most of the Japanese camera companies.
Nikon is a highly go-it-alone company. They don't license the lens mounts, they don't share much in the way of APIs, they are highly prone to making some types of connector changes (yet don't make the one change they probably should ;~). They have made lots of small but potentially fatal-for-third-party-product-changes to electrical specification on the mount and hot shoe. They like inventing new technologies that they don't share with others.
Even within Nikon's own line we have discontinuity of ecosystem. Was the Nikon 1's flash system truly CLS compatible? Not really, though they're now claiming more compatibility. This is the same problem Nikon had with Coolpix CLS. It sort of was the same, but not quite, and there were not only a lot of restrictions, but many anomalies, too. Personally, I gave up trying to use CLS on the P7000 and just went to manual flash. At that point, I could pick any flash on the planet, so I went out of ecosystem. Oops."
Glad he's realised that Micro Four Thirds success is partly because it is an real eco system (I think Olympus have pushed this way as far as photography goes and Panasonic have tried pushing this way with regards to video)

*Apparently Nikon is going to bring out yet another lens mount (5th) in 2013...they just don't get it do they?*
living life to the Four Thirds!
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