I woke up, and saw that the UPS track­ing page showed it as out for deliv­ery a day early. It arrived at 3PM ish. Well, after a first days shoot­ing (or half of a day), I’ve got some results. You can see them here. Be warned, they’re 3-5MB. But the included lens is an 18-55MM, and the wide angle side of it isn’t bad with f/3.5, but the zoom part is a slow f/5.6, and isn’t good for much than bright day. I haven’t noticed much noise going as high as ISO 800, which is a major plus (espe­cially when com­pared to the lens that came with it). The built in flash is quite good as well, I almost blinded myself. The AF (even with a non-USM lens) is quite accu­rate and snappy. And I can con­tinue to take pic­tures in sin­gle shot mode as fast as I can press the shut­ter (thanks to my fast mem­ory card). Burst mode is also fast and I can get about 20 shots in rapid suc­ce­sion before start­ing to see a slow­down. How­ever, if I wanted to shoot RAW+JPEG, I’d need the Extreme III CF card (Twice the Read/Write Rate as the Ultra II, which is what I have). Bat­tery life is aver­age, with only a 700mAh bat­tery (my old Pow­er­shot s230 has a 840mAh) lasted about 600 pic­tures. I do plan on get­ting a 900mAh sec­ondary bat­tery though, at least they recharge rather quickly (about 60 min­utes). Over­all, I’m impressed, and I’m sure the qual­ity of the shots will go up as I get more used to this cam­era. But I definitly need that 70-200mm f/4L lens for zoom (and the fact it’s faster than the stock one). The camera’s name is ‘Artemis’ by the way, from the Greek God­dess of the Hunt. I’m still hunt­ing for a name for the 18–55 f/3.5-f/5.6 lens, let me know if you have any suggestions.