The MSRP on this is $899.00 at www.panasonic.com Sears has it in their ad this week for $499.00 after $100.00 rebate. It rang up $499.00! so after the rebate it will be just $399.00, in addition when you purchase this camera you qualify for an internal SuperDisk drive for your desktop computer by mail for only $5.00. This camera is only 1.3 megapixels and has only 3X optical zoom, but it has a USB port it can do Time lapse at intervals of 1, 5, 10, 30 minutes or 1, 6, 12 or 24 hours. It uses relativly inexpensive 120mb SuperDisks or 1.44mb floppies. It looks to me like a slightly modified and rebadged Sony Mavica.