This is what they call impulse [and yet not] buying. You deliberate, you walk into stores, nothing is there and you think.. ah I shouldn't yet anyway. And then there it is.. a bright light haloing it, the angels singing in chorus and whatever resolve you had to wait or just to check it out in the store turns into a purchase. You're right though. You will have no trouble selling it off if you don't want it so just enjoy because I do think you are correct in that if you weren't supposed to have it then that second one wouldn't have appeared. Tis fate! Congrats!
Actually Kristen, it was the first one I actually saw. And the one part I'm not at ALL sure of now is whether I'd be able to sell it off without taking a pretty big hit. When I finally SAW one, after a couple of days of asking around, I was envisioning another X100 type rollout with just a few units trickling in, high deman, limited supply, etc. And anyone lucky enough to get one quickly would be able to sell it quickly as well. And, at least unconsiously, that was probably part of my calculation. And, of course, by end of the day after I bought mine, they were EVERYWHERE, with numerous stores having plenty of stock after filling pre-orders. So, obviously there's not gonna be a shortage of THIS camera and my ability to sell it easily at little or no loss is probably not there. But that's OK - this is my shooting month in that I'm spending it in New York City - I'll probably do more photography in April than in the rest of the year combined. So I'm very happy to have gotten it. And with the EM5 looking like it may not show up until the second half of the month, I'm better off doing what I did, since I was interested in both. If I was not spending this month in NYC, I'd like to think I wouldn't have pre-ordered either, waited for both to be out there for a few weeks and see what types of reactions they were getting from shooters who do a lot of what I do. And then made a bit more of an informed choice with less impulse. But that was not the case, so I jumped, knowing the possibilities and risks. No regrets!
Amin - funny how impulse works. I think it really only surfaces on things you REALLY want. I love my iphone and ipad, but to me they're just objects of (extreme!) convenience, not tools toward an art/craft that brings forth deeper passions. I've easily walked past numerous upgrades to my iphone before getting the "4s" and its gonna take a pretty huge upgrade to the ipad for me to upgrade my iPad2, or it'll have to break, which was pretty much happened to my first iphone. Whereas cameras that offer some feature or features that I think will really help with the type of shooting I do are MUCH tougher for me to resist. I went back and forth between the EM5 and X-Pro 1 but there was no question that both of them offered some very compelling features/performance, even though I've had absolutely NO problems with my existing gear. Neither was gonna make me a better photographer, but either might have enabled more low light shooting, which matters to me, more this month than usually. So I jumped at the X-Pro, only slightly to my surprise when I'm honest with myself. You jumped at the new iPad, which leaves me vaguely cold. Its all what we can afford and what gets us off...
-Ray