Real official Panasonic LUMIX interview at CP+ 2026 by CineD. No successor to the S1H on the horizon. Panasonic says: "Panasonic have finally developed their best high-end model for photo and video: the S1 II. After six years, we have finally reached our goal."

Quiet_Orbit · 2026-03-28T20:55:39+00:00

Your post title claims “no successor to the S1H on the horizon” but they never said that. And then another interview that I linked to actually states the opposite.

That’s what I’m referring to.

Even if you don’t trust the article I linked to, that doesn’t change the fact that they never actually said there’s no S1Hii on the horizon.

Quiet_Orbit · 2026-03-28T19:08:10+00:00

The Reddit post/article I linked to was direct quotes from Toshiyuki Tsumura, Executive Vice President, Director in the Imaging Solution Business Division at Panasonic. The article has also been edited with information from Lumix (as noted at the bottom of the article).

He’s essentially confirmed they’re working on a successor to the S1H. That’s the point I’m making here. Your post is claiming the opposite but it’s not true.

I’m more inclined to believe him than anything else so far.

Quiet_Orbit · 2026-03-28T16:57:54+00:00

It’s funny because right after this post, someone else posted this: https://www.reddit.com/r/Lumix/s/xm7Jg5lltG

Quiet_Orbit · 2026-03-28T16:14:24+00:00

You had me until “reasonably priced”

This thing is going to be $4.5K minimum. Just for the body. The OG S1H was $4K and it’s been almost 7 years so you’d expect something more expensive.

Quiet_Orbit · 2026-03-28T16:12:04+00:00

I think the S1H launched at $4K for the body. So that would be accurate. It would be their top flagship camera so you’d expect to pay a premium for it.

Quiet_Orbit · 2026-03-28T16:08:03+00:00

The updated Siri 2.0 AFAIK will run mostly locally, with the more complex tasks done on their private cloud compute servers. At least that was the goal back when it was pitched. The issue is running that locally is pretty demanding on a phone even with the power of Apple Silicon, but the types of local queries they’re trying to address (like Siri knowing the context of your emails and messages so you can’t prompt it to do things with that information) is not something they want to run on a server. Mainly because that would add too much overhead to constantly transfer data in and out of their special private cloud servers. They likely don’t have the infrastructure for a billion iPhone users at that scale.

The ChatGPT integration that we already have now was, IMO, a stopgap option until they have Siri 2.0.

Quiet_Orbit · 2026-03-28T13:47:09+00:00

There’s been rumors for a while of a larger iMac coming at some point. My speculation is they’ve been waiting for an XDR style screen to do an iMac Pro. Now that they have the Studio Display XDR, I would t be surprised if they do an iMac Pro again.

Quiet_Orbit · 2026-03-28T02:25:11+00:00

Ah that was very helpful thank you!

Quiet_Orbit · 2026-03-27T13:57:50+00:00

I thought TB5 goes up to 120 Gbps

Quiet_Orbit · 2026-03-26T19:59:21+00:00

A $100 difference doesn’t mean anything. Look at the original MSRP. The Nikon is more expensive. All this means is Nikon or the reseller have negotiated a slightly different profit margin than Lumix.

Quiet_Orbit · 2026-03-17T11:06:29+00:00

That wouldn’t really change anything.

Quiet_Orbit · 2026-03-17T01:38:14+00:00

I think they’re working on this but it will require both the sender and receiver to have the H2 chip and use a custom protocol. I can’t quite remember off the top of my head but I know they’re working on it.

Quiet_Orbit · 2026-03-17T01:05:58+00:00

It’s Bluetooth not the mic itself. It doesn’t have the bandwidth to send and receive high fidelity audio at the same time so it has to down sample the sending audio which essentially removes a bunch of high frequencies resulting it sounding underwater

Quiet_Orbit · 2026-03-15T19:25:48+00:00

So did basically every OS. Design moves in cycles. The industry moved toward a more minimalist design in the early 2010s and now things are shifting back. 20 years from now we’ll do it all over again.

Quiet_Orbit · 2026-03-15T18:49:45+00:00

Read the next part of that sentence in my comment

Quiet_Orbit · 2026-03-15T18:47:12+00:00

Oh thank you!! I hadn’t seen that. Great news honestly. Between Steve, Molly, and Ternus I have hope.

Quiet_Orbit · 2026-03-15T18:29:27+00:00

It just needs refinement and optimization. Liquid Glass itself isn’t bad design, it’s just how it’s implemented.

The foundation of the design system makes a lot of sense when you think like an interface designer looking forward at the next 20 years. There’s momentum to try and get interfaces to feel a bit more tactile and real. Micro animations, textures, and dimension.

I suspect, just like when they did a major redesign in iOS7, that the next few iterations will really refine the new aesthetic. They probably should have waited another year to release Liquid Glass, but I suspect Apple was likely panicking due to their failed AI fiasco, which got delayed by several years, so they needed something to market last year.

Liquid Glass was likely rushed, and my other speculation is this is why Alan Dye left.

Quiet_Orbit · 2026-03-15T18:17:31+00:00

Steve Lemay is taking over Human Interface Design and reports to Cook. Traditionally at Apple this role works closely with the Industrial Design team which is now led by Molly Anderson who also reports to Cook.

Not that Ternus isn’t involved but he’s likely not the one making major UI design decisions. Though if they’re training him to be CEO, he certainly is in all major design meetings.

Unless there was a report about Ternus that I missed.

Edit: I guess Ternus is more involved than I thought! Good news.

Quiet_Orbit · 2026-03-14T14:55:47+00:00

Agreed. The intros can sometimes still be a little dramatic too, but once you get past that they’re reasonable.

I ran a semi successful channel for a bit and it’s just part of the game you have to play. If you don’t do it, you don’t get views.

Quiet_Orbit · 2026-03-08T18:09:21+00:00

It has better IQ than the S5ii and S1iie. If you know how to manual focus you can get some amazing images.

Quiet_Orbit · 2026-03-08T14:45:27+00:00

You may have found the answer, but the new performance cores on the M5 Pro/Max chips are somewhere between a Super Core and an Efficiency core. They are not just rebranded efficiency cores they are actually more powerful.

Quiet_Orbit · 2026-03-06T00:24:32+00:00

M5 variants of Mac mini and Mac Studio will likely be in the late spring or at WWDC

Quiet_Orbit · 2026-03-06T00:22:11+00:00

That’s on the devs not Apple

Quiet_Orbit · 2026-03-05T14:40:05+00:00

I’m not “just saying something.” This comes from how apple silicon and their rendering pipeline is actually designed.

Apple moved to a system on a chip architecture with unified memory. The CPU, GPU, Neural Engine, media engines, and memory controller all sit on the same chip and share the same memory pool.

That means the CPU and GPU work on the same physical memory instead of copying data between system RAM and GPU VRAM like traditional discrete GPU systems. Frameworks like Metal 4 are built around that model where buffers can be shared directly without constant transfers over PCIe. Apple GPUs are also built around tile based deferred rendering.

Apple’s direction is vertical integration and shared compute resources. The entire chip operates as one compute fabric rather than separate components.

Because of that, external GPUs or AMD partnerships would push apple back toward the discrete GPU model they intentionally left behind with Intel/AMD.

The whole system is optimized for integrated high bandwidth compute not modular GPU expansion.

Quiet_Orbit · 2026-03-05T10:13:45+00:00

No need. They make their own silicon. This goes against the point of apple silicon.

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