Canon have released the Australian price at $5500, so you could problably buy it for $5000 AUS shopping around. Remember this is a full frame sensor - i.e the imaging area is 36 x 24mm - this is the first time such a camera has been offered under $10000. The big sensor really counts for ultimate image quality (and the pixels are small enough to challenge any lens). The images from this camera should be awesome and will problably be as good as medium format film. The one thing that sucks is it has its IR cut filter bonded directly to the sensor coverglass
Terry