Try Ned Bunnell's blog, I think he listed something last year.

I'm not sure exactly what you can do about it. The price is the price and unless you negotiate with a supplier a discount for some reason then it's the price. Even then there's a limit and most suppliers, if not all, will not go beyond a certain point.

The price is always a compromise and it should settle at a point where it is acceptable to the buyer and also to the seller, giving them a proper amount of profit. If everyone isn't satisfied then it's not a good sale.

Well it's far more transparent than in the days when I worked in a company where a price increase was immediately applied to old stock, every time.

In the early 1970s inflation was rampant (20% at one point I think) and it was a constant repricing. Stocks were also very intermittent and some items had to be waited for for up to 9 months, or even longer in a few isolated instances.

We have become used to being utterly spoiled in recent years and a lot of companies have disappeared, unable to compete. I don't know whether resale price maintenance was a good or bad thing, but it meant people competed on service only.

Mind you, service could still be pretty shoddy, even at high prices. Sometimes quite disgraceful. No system is perfect and companies are actually in business to make a good living.

I'm surprised you think this. We already have our kit, so why would we sell everything and start again? There's no particular price advantage one way or another over the longer term, in lenses particularly. In addition, the camera bodies are well priced anyway at this point.

This is exactly the point we are making. We have to ask how we would react to some of the more extreme comments if we were the ones making the decisions. In general, reasonable argument is a better approach.

As for Dave's post, the very fact it is there is a demonstration of the ability of anyone to have an opinion. But the golden rule is you attack the argument, not the person.

However, we are all judged by what we post. Do please remember that what you post will not be editable after a very short while, so always be courteous as it will stay there for all to read in the cold light of day.

Totally agree.

Hyram, suggest you try and source a K-5 to try out as the AF system really is pretty fast. SRS will rent you one if that's the only way, but maybe you know someone with a K-5?

We have been enjoying relatively low prices for a very long time and we predicted that after the Japanese tsunami and then the Thailand floods that prices would increase. It's not really a surprise.

They will settle again in due course as supply improves, but I'd buy now if we are buying because the problem of supply will I suspect hit very hard at some point. That's just my opinion, and I suspect that it won't be good again for a while.

I hope to be quite wrong, but years back the price was one thing but there was very little available anywhere. If you can't get a 12-24mm lens then the price becomes a bit irrelevant.

How is winding people up more a good thing?

From 2.41 am to 10.41 am that isn't really that surprising is it?