Saying Goodbye

You are right, the S5 wont bring in any serious money.  With the Nikon grip for it and 4 OEM batteries I might get $600 for it.  I may end up keeping the S5 and the Nikkor 35mm f/1.8.  Not a money locked up in there.  My real concern is selling my cherished 24mm f/1.4 lens.  It is really an amazing piece of glass.  I cringe thinking about selling it and am paralyzed on moving forward.

No.  I dont want to go half way into full frame.  Money is no object for me in this decision.

I may end up getting both, but I wont sell the 24mm if I have a camera that can shoot it.  In the crop world I ALWAYS want wider so I will fit in nicely with the expanded range of my 24.

True, and that is an option.  Selling stuff here in China is just a mess though.  It really sucks living away from home in some ways.

I am lucky enough right now to have a lot of disposable income.  And my wife, bless her, wants me to be happy away from home so she "approves" of any purchase I want.  So I can buy anything I want, almost as often as I want without touching savings or money set for savings.  Yet I dont want to have more gear than I can fit in my backpack.  I dont want stupid amounts of gear.  That's just a principle of mine.

One last point, that I think is very valid is that everyone here knows that the X series suck at auto focusing.  They might deny it, but they know that it is true.  Certainly Fujifilm knows that they make a bottom of class camera in this aspect.  So I know that there are improvements coming, lots of them and that any camera I purchase now will be superseded in a large and important way very soon.

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