[jake]

Well I have an Olympus E500 and have just bought a Sony 350 because I had quite a few Minolta lenses extention tubes ect. The Sony350 produces better images, and as has been pointed out in the press, prints straight off the camera. I find the camera very easy to operate ( I'm no spring chicken ). It is bigger than the Olympus but not that much bigger. Live view proved a very usefull feature this weekend when I was taking shots of cars from nearly ground level. It's also very usefull when you want to hold your camera up in a crowd. For candid shots people don't seem to notice a camera held at waist level as much. Sure the pro cameras will last longer but ask yourself how long you intend to keep it, with the rate things are improving I recon three year is about long enough for significant developements in camera design. If you are a pro and someone else is paying your expenses it's a different ballgame.
So what don't I like about the camera? It's quite noisy soundwise compared to my other camera but whilst we are on the noise issue the digital noise is far less than the Olympus which was not very good above 400ISO.