In addition to the announcement of Carl Zeiss (one of the most important lens manufacturer in the world) that they joined the “Micro Four Thirds System Standard Group”, now Schneider-Kreuznach announced that they also joined the standard and they will start selling lens on this standard soon.
This is part of their official press release:

“SCHNEIDER KREUZNACH now a member of the Micro Four Thirds System Standard Group
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BAD KREUZNACH, 4 February 2011. Schneider-Kreuznach has joined the “Micro Four Thirds System Standard Group” – a consortium of companies with the objective of improving the possibilities and quality of compact digital cameras. Developed by Olympus and Panasonic, “Micro Four Thirds” is a standard for lens mounts that is tailored to digital system cameras. “This standard has great potential. It simplifies and improves the options for compact digital cameras and offers an excellent opportunity for the industry as a whole, as well as for us as a lens manufacturer. We are working intensively on a corresponding series of lenses,” says Dr. Josef Staub, CEO of the Schneider Group.
Download the full press release here

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Thanks to Adobe CS5 which has become a real contender, and the new Avid version, it looks like this new Final Cut Studio will have to be impressive. But what is impressive for me:

Blu-Ray support – Sorry folks I do not see any chance there will be better Blu-Ray support, because Apple does not like Blu-Ray, but I hope at least I will be able to make a good H.264 export to backup some things and put them on the web.

Media management – Please please please, Apple this is something I really need to see improved, manual reconnection is killing me.

New media support – Most of my clients are using XDCAM and Canon H.264, I really need to edit natively with them and have faster workflows.

Integration and optimization – Well if they are making a new version, making a better integration between their suite would be fine, also I hope they rewrite part of the code to take advantage of the new processor and graphic boards available.

Looks like a wish list is more than an article on FCP, but as Larry says on his blog, “We won’t know anything Apple does not want us to know”…so pack your bags, I think we will see this new version at NAB 2011.