I finally got the camera I wanted.
Lucky for me the lowest price was offered at Beach Camera about 5 miles away from my place of employment in NJ ($229). I went to check it out and tried to minimize my costs by buying the 128MB Compact Flash card and NiMH AA batteries and charger (total $80 free shipping !! from Amazon.com). The stupid UV filter which costs $29 and still requires an adapter (how stupid is that!!!) and which in my opinion makes the whole camera less portable (defeats the purpose) was not purchased as well as the 5-year warranty (the camera will be obsolete as far as performance/costs like most high technology items today). The salesman was not pleased to have someone come in to buy just the camera without any accessories.
Used it and it was great. Have pictures of the air flow sensor for all to see here. It came from my 1993 RSA and was opened up to inspect for defect. None obvious.
Tom
