This is a really nice camera: solid feeling, well laid-out, and bristling with features. I’m very intrigued by the amount of manual controls it has (and how you use them: how to check depth-of-field, for example?) and hope to explore them.
But.
If you understand that no one would ever buy a 16 Mb compact flash card, wonder no more about where they end up. They get shipped in new camera boxes, so you can thrill yourself with 9 pictures before offloading them to start again.
Of course, a 512 Mb card can be had for $45 or so, making it moot. I can even see upgrading the firmware to handle RAW images with that much space to work with.