I almost hate to tell people this, given how excited some of you are about this camera. But I should have one early next week. A cousin in the Montreal area was one of those lucky Canadians who got his in the batch of Canadian cams that went out late last week - he had pre-orders in at a couple of shops and both of them shipped at the same time, so he didn't have time to cancel one. I've seen similar stories on the dpreview forum co-minled with all of the angry Canucks who got none but had put in their orders before some of the folks who got two. It seems a lot of people are not happy with Henry's, who took pre-orders in both online and OTC and filled only online ones, even if they came in well after some of the OTC orders - I'd be pissed too. Anyway, he got them last Friday. He likes his, with reservations, and his son doesn't have any interest in the other one after playing with it for a couple of days. So I'm getting the second one! I should get it early to middle of next week. I'm not sure on the US warranty part of it, but if worse comes to worse, I can send it back to him and have it serviced in Canada. Hopefully the'll honor it here. More hopefully, it'll be an academic question! He's checked it out and neither of them had the problem with the tilted OVF so I have that assurance. As for the little niggling things, I'll just have to see for myself...
We're leaving for a week in Jamaica at the end of next week. I'm going to take this as my primary camera and either the Nex or the LX-5 along as backup (and if I really feel the need for a bit of versatility). I'm psyched, sort of, but feel a bit funny because so many are losing sleep over this camera and I'm not much more than curious at this point. Hopefully I'll have time to offer some initial impressions next week with a full report when we get back the week of the 24th. Although by then, hopefully a lot of you will have them as well.
-Ray