Have you seen the offers now available on the S-E (CCD model).
Red Dot Cameras UK is offering it complete with 70mm Summarit f2.5 for £7999 inclusive of VAT.
You know what I miss most of all in cameras? That wonderful, appropriate-to-function and tactile quality of the 500 and F/F2. Say what anyone likes, those cameras did things to the psyche that nothing since has ever done to mine. They made me
feel professional and something special and, as a result, I seemed able to make things happen that don't any more. Magic existed.
Don't remember shooting a single cat, in or out of a black celler.
;-(
Rob C