[ArrogantBustard]

'Way too friggin' much money. Its successor will probably be within my price range in less than five years. Meantime, I can make do with an Olympus C5050.

[meyer]

I suspect that it will be less than 5 years for good 10-12 mpx camera bodies to drop below $1000. Things are moving fast in the digital imaging world right now.

I just got a new digital, the Canon S230. Its a very small (about the size of a cigarette pack) 3.2 mpx digital and I am quite pleased with it. Still, I miss the totally manual control that my older 35 mm SLR offers. On the other hand, I carry this Canon with me nearly everywhere - I can't say the same for the full-sized camera. It fits in the shirt pocket or I holster it on my belt in a small camera pouch. Very handy!