YES! NICE! I just got off the phone, and it will be at my distribution center after 5:15pm this evening
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how much is BigMike paying for his new camara???
Mini is right, they go for around $280 at the cheapest, brand-new in the box, but I paid $389 for mine on eBay (
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130113889255) because it comes with other gewdies that I value to be well over $100, such as a 2 GB memory card and card reader, 2 tripods (1 small, 1 tall), wide angle lense, 2x telephoto lense, some adapter tube thingy, rechargeable batteries and a charger (which I didn't need but is nice to have spares), a cheap-o lense cleaning kit, and a nice leather camera bag.
I'll let you know about the quality of the two lense. I really hope they are good quality. I've seen just 1 wide angle lense go for over $100. I've ALWAYS wanted to have a wide angle lense, so this is extra special for me. And the 2X lense will make Macro shots excellent, since sometimes I can't get close enough to the specimen, so I have to zoom in, but with the zoom, I loose the ability to have a low aperture size.
My A80 camera uses CompactFlash memory (I only have 1 x 256MB), and the nice thing about the S3 IS is that it uses SD memory, of which I already posses 1 x 2GB, 1 x 1GB, and 1 x 512GB that I use for other devices I have, plus I already have two SD card readers. So that means that I will now have 5.5 GB of memory to take with me on trips for picture taking, whereas before I only had 256MB!! I can't tell you how many times while in Japan I had to delete movies or pictures because I was out of memory. Good thing I never opted to buy another CompactFlash card!
BigMike
