Oops, looks like I set off an avalanche this morning. I know the lens is listed as available in 2 days on the Hasselblad EU website but I am hesitant to buy it direct. Partly because I appreciate my dealer's support and also because it is an expensive item and I prefer to deal with a human being when spending close to Eur5k. Hasselblad/DJI's approach seems very different from Leica's now. With Leica - own stores, staff who know me and who I know in person. Not wishing to be sentimental, but there is a sense of community - invitations to product launches, Academy workshops, priority access to back-ordered items, possibility to loan and test equipment before buying, getting mothership to fix S lenses with broken AF motors for free even past the 5-year extended warranty. They even sent an SL2 and lenses to a friend of mine to test, based on me vouching for him (he bought). Nobody's perfect but I appreciate the human element in all this. No matter how alluring the X2D and lenses may technically be, this makes me think which company I want to spend my money with.