You've answered all of the qestions properly, what are you waiting for? Just go out and buy the thing If you wait, something else is going to be announced and you wait some more.
We buy all of our digital cameras from Imaging Spectrum in dallas. They have a website, www.imagingspectrum.com
They also have used stuff as well.
Good Luck.

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