Look at the rate of technological change that existed in film photography. Now compare it with digital photography. Basically, the same chumps who brought us PCs that can't stay up and running for more than 4 years because their software gets bloated, and the operating system has gone from 1 million lines of code to 50+million in 10 years - those are the guys who are gonna be selling us cameras. I used to work the high tech industry and was on the investment/venture capital side a couple of times. After you've heard some senior guy from a company like Intel say (seriously) "nobody really needs this feature but we're putting it into the system because it'll stimulate more development of gigabit-data hungry applications, which will trigger our customers to need a system/motherboard upgrade in 4 years" -- you get cynical fast. If we let computing's ingrained "more bigger faster!" mindset take over photography we'll be buying a new digital camera every 3 years. OOps... I just upgraded my S2 to an S3 earlier this year... mjr.