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B&H is obviously an agressive and capable marketer. If they put a product on special for a limited time then I expect that they really meant “a limited time”. Whatever their commercial reason is I could not possibly know but I suggest that it may have served its purpose in raising the profile of the camera type. But as an experienced accountant I could figure out a few possible reasons for this action. Mark has done a great job self ambassadoring the product and it was surprising how hard it was to convince others just what good value the special price was. I and some others no doubt did not ask questions but bought first and are now asking questions later. On the scale of things it might be hard to judge who was the biggest crazy - those hard to convince who missed out by their trardiness or those apparent fools who rushed in and may yet get their fingers burned. When mine arrives - it has been surprisingly quick across literally half the world’s circumference but is not here yet - I expect to do my own testing and ambassadoring in a sort of reasonable “payback” for the discounted purchase price I recieved. I always like to see those that make the products that I can enjoy make enough money to stay in business so that they can contine to make further innovative products that I can also enjoy. If I like the Panasonic GM products then I have a good chance of also liking the Z E1.

In all this chat there were two elephants in the room - one was the ability to take a chance on what seemed to be a bargain price for an unusual product until it had been proved beyond all reasonable doubt that no risk was to be taken. (Normal human behaviour - no risk taken until everyone has one - a sort of circular catch-22 equation that makes every innnovative new product hard to get off the ground). Presumably B&H sold out the excess stock whilst the interested crowd of onlookers was fumbling around. Second elephant is the source of spare batteries. This camera seems to have a special oem battery pack and there is no obvious second source for batteries. Two batteries come with camera but dead battery = “no digital camera”. Battery limited toys only last as long as you can power them up.