Why not an A1? I'm kind of in the same dilema. I'll be in switzerland in a few weeks and after searching, and researching, and...., I think I decided on either the A1 or A2. I want something that has this kind of range and is light weight. Albeit I'm a little leary of minolta. I've had several friend with problems with minolta quality on various different cameras.

Anyway, the nikon and canon, are too slow and have poor low light AF. The sonys are tempting except it's a little on the large(r) and heavy side. Which leaves the minolta's. Though until I put my money down the sony 818 is still in the running. The 717 doesn't take cf cards.

Now I'm trying to decide if it's better to get the 8 vs 5Mp. Being realistic, my old canon G2 made very nice prints through the sizes I usually print. Conversely, more than likely a lot of the noise seen at 100% with the 8Mp models won't be aparent to the eye on even large prints.

I'm having problems making a decision!

Mike