My job takes me in and out of 13 Best Buy and Circuit City big box stores 5 days a week from Seattle to the Canadian border. Panasonic is doing OK - not great but OK. People are learning about the "LEICA" branding on the smaller camera lenses and they are buying. Meanwhile, the equivalent to the Digilux 3 continues to languish on the shelves, despite a huge price drop of US $ 500.00 to about $ 1,500.00, last month. I've been visiting the same cameras with the same stock number for more than 4 months now. They are not selling. Especially when they are next to the Olympus E-500 with two lenses for less money. Bob in Seattle. On May 6, 2007, at 7:54, David Young wrote: Juan wrote: > The future of the 4/3 system itself has never been all that clear, =20 > but Panasonic (at least in the US) does not seem to be making the =20 > effort required to make people aware of the L1. Sony went overboard =20 > with publicity for the alpha (10MP, image stabilization, backwards =20 > compatibility with millions of Minolta lenses), and today's price is > =20 > $625 (33% off in one year), and I don't know how well they are selling. Hi Juan! In North America, the Sonly sold very well, for a couple of months... but now, sales have slowed substantially. This from the Canadian Trade Paper "Marketnews", which I get. Cheers! --- David Young, Logan Lake, CANADA Wildlife Photographs: http://www.telyt.com/ Personal Web-pages: http://www3.telus.net/~telyt Stock Photography at: http://tinyurl.com/2amll4 ------ Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: http://www3.telus.net/~telyt/lrflex.htm Archives are at: //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/ ------ Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: http://www3.telus.net/~telyt/lrflex.htm Archives are at: //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/