COME ONNNNNNNN NIKON!

I find all this "I'm going to Canon", "I'm going to Olympus", Sony, etc talk a bit strange. The people who actually feel strongly about "missing" cameras/lenses/etc in the current Nikon lineup are probably the very same people who invested thousands, maybe tens of thousands $$ into Nikon already.

This is a small and picky bunch, and I'm inclined to believe that in spite of all the outpouring of dissatisfaction, most of these folks won't sell out years' worth of accumulated cameras, lenses, and other Nikon gear, -- no doubt at a significant loss, -- to pack up and go someplace else just to realize shortly thereafter that the other side is also missing some critical piece of gear or functionality.

I'm sure some may add a camera or a lens, or two from a competing brand, but all things considered I don't see a wholesale exodus because the competition at the moment may happen to have that highly desirable extra stop of high ISO DR or the invaluable extra FPS. I suspect Nikon isn't worried too much either, their bread and butter is probably coming from sub-D7000 sales, and definitely from sub-D300.

With this in mind, I'm not waiting anymore, nor am I going anywhere. Life on the Nikon side isn't that miserable after all.