My wonderful mother received a rather large retirement check yesterday and asked me if I wanted anything special for my birthday/Christmas (they are four days apart) and I told her I was planning on getting the lens. I was expecting to get scoffed at, but she said she would give me the money because she knows nothing about cameras and wants to make sure I get the right thing.

Hopefully I won't have to wait too long for one of these guys, I imagine they're selling like hotcakes. They're supposed to start shipping on the 1st of December, right? Atleast I think that's what I read.