When I first started looking at them they wouldn't drop below $800. Seen it drop to $700 when and picked it up and got a 3 year warranty, so if I drop it and it breaks im good. so $752 total taxes warranty.
Like baha stated, the difference in these between a point n shoot is night and day difference. I loved my point n shoot, but I was starting to out grow it. The options on this camera are nuts. Definatly going to invest in a tripod and some new lense.