Very seriously considering switching to Sony’s dSLR - even though I am not that obsessed with the photo-gear,  prices on Canon’s image stabilizing lens make me suffer - and I totally understand they will never ever release an IS body (like Sony does), as in this case all extremely expensive Canon IS lens will become just very expensive rubbish, nobody will buy it.

In my days of P&S cameras, I’ve been using not-thad-bad Minolta superzoom - which did have sensor-based optical IS - and it did work quite well as far as I can see. Having this on dSLR would be absolutely great thing (even assuming, that it won’t work as good as lens-based IS - which is alone a very questinable assumption - it would be better than no IS at all anyway).

Very surprising to see, how many photographers are over-obsessed with their gear - cameras, lenses, flashes, tripods, filters, this and that … each time I think about it I remember about Henri Cartier-Bresson, who is known to shoot with one camera and one lens (OK, sometimes he used 35mm for landscapes - but that’s it, really!) - and look what had he done!

I understand, to achieve magazine quality, to shoot sport events, to produce a double-page spread in National Geographic - probably, you need very decent lens and camera, but having 50 kg of photo gear, three 1Ds bodies and lots of lens’ with a red stripe on it - it won’t make masterpieces out of your photos anyway, will it?