And... so much for all of that.

http://gizmodo.com/5520938/adobe-dropping-iphone-app-development-technol...

I don't think anyone knew how big the DSLR revolution was going to get -- Canon's added movie mode was originally designed to appease photographers who wanted to also shoot some video for, example, a newspaper's website. But with movie-capable DSLRs selling like hotcakes and so many great DSLR videos out there, it became clear that independent filmmakers were a sizable market.

RED's Scarlet is stil unreleased, and they announced a very similar product to this Panasonic a year and a half ago. These things take time.

Andrius,

Well... I suppose you're right. Apple wants to avoid slow and sluggish apps, which would only make their hardware look bad. Still, it's kind of funny how they went about announcing it -- by changing the SDK agreement mere days before Adobe publicly launched their much talked-about Flash export feature. And while I agree many ported apps would perform poorly, I also think there are plenty that could work just fine -- an example I would use would be TweetDeck, which runs on Adobe AIR. It's a tad sluggish on the desktop, sure, but tons of people use it because it's useful (and cross-platform). If Mac OS X had the same draconian SDK terms as the new iPhone SDK, TweetDeck couldn't be released on it at all.

And yes, they programmed their own custom version for the iPad. But it should be the developer's call, and responsibility, to make good applications, not the platform vendor (IMO). That seems to have worked out fine for Mac OS X...

The 4/3 chip is not as big as a full-frame sensor -- which is itself significantly larger than 35mm motion picture film -- but it is still EIGHT times larger than a 1/3" chip. This is still very capable of the shallow DOF many guerrilla cinematographers are after -- see the video embedded here, the GH1 has a Micro 4/3 sensor:

http://bit.ly/2alhUZ

Ha! Agreed with the Zapf Chancery. I'm not endorsing any of these contests, I'm just putting them out there as opportunities, for which everyone should make their own call. Nicholl is definitely legitimate; the other two are... well, use your own judgement!

To update, it appears things got complicated right after I wrote this:

http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/08/adobe-flash-apple-sdk/
http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/09/adobe-go-screw-yourself-apple-2/