Australian F3 delivery date confirmed.
 

Just got confirmation that Videocraft will have their F3's in stock on February 23. Stock numbers are very limited though.

At _only_ $4000 more than our US friends. Woo...

That may be a RRP.....not street price.

That would a nice change from the usual gouging :D

A twitter from Andy Shipsides of Abel from last night:

@AndyShipsides
"I heard that the first Sony F3 cameras have arrived in the US for QA and will ship soon. We are offering free F3 training on any purchase."

and a seperate tweet from @CVPGroup:
"Sony PMW-F3 Update: Sony tell us that the first UK deliveries are scheduled for 11th February 2011..."

I too was told 11th of Feb for the UK, but have been led to believe there may be a small delay.

FWIW,

our local dealer/rental house got their first "rental" F3 in today.

A single demo unit came into a dealer in Vancouver yesterday. It was a finished unit, not a pre-production model. The first shipment of selling units to Canada is to be small. The subsequent shipment is supposed to fill the remainder of the existing preorders.

Well it's confirmed. Sony Australia has put a 25% surcharge on the F3 here....wooo...