here we go - finally the origin of new 16mp m43 sensor is known (or is it ?)

Speaking as a retired "loose canon" disc jockey who got pulled off the streets for mistaking bystanders for practice targets, this is just the kind of conspiracy Panasonic would orchestrate to confuse those of us desperate enough to tear apart a brand new camera in a fevered appeal to our confirmation biases.

No problem for a large corporation really.  Make the sensor output just like a Sony, make the serial number close (enough) to a Sony, have the Olympus CEO blurt out "its a SONY!" at a press conference, and reap the rewards as cameras sell to the legions of un-expecting Sony fan-boys... who forgot they could just buy a NEX instead.  Corporate espionage gone false-flag operation with a touch of (Tom Cruise) Mission Impossible... simple, ingenious, and utterly proof-proof!

Gotta hand it to them.

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-CW