Price is pegged at around the S1 Pro price level. Which is unsurprising given the existing digital trends (as in more or less the same price but better features, D1 and D1x/h).
It does look better than the S1 Pro on specs, but I wouldn't go over the moon. For starters, the S1 Pro was excellent on paper as well but was blighted by serious noise issues at anything other than it's lowest ISO rating.
Nikon already have a dig based on the F100. In fact they have three. The D1, D1x and D1h. About the only thing I can currently think of that the D1 series borrows from the F5 is the colour matrix meter. Aside from that, the body, layout, focusing, viewfinder, etc are all F100.
Nor would I jumpt up and down :rbounce: about the pixel count. It will be an attractively priced true six megapixel camera, but I really wouldn't even think about the 12 million. Fuji's interpolation isn't anywhere as good as it sounds (I know this is a new rigmarole, but...) because the S1 Pro is SERIOUSLY deficient to the slightly interpolated 6mp of the D1x. FWIW, the D1x is already actually able to hit 10mp if you shoot raw, with a 4000x2600 approx pixel count, by using all the horizontal resolution rather than downsizing it. It works fairly well, but 6mp is really enough for most apps, and for those that it is not, interpolating isn't the solution.
The way I look at it, the S2 does look to be at about the same level to the D1x as the S1 was to the D1. As in, slightly more pixels, slightly cheaper (D1x bodies are going for US$4300 in the US now) but on a smaller less capable and durable platform.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, until I'm blue in the face if necessary. I couldn't be happier with a 1.5x multiplier. Considering how many on this forum are chucking their cameras to get something with a 10x optical zoom you can see where I'm coming from. Not to mention that a 14mm and 300/2.8 costs about half and weighs about half of what a 20mm and 400/2.8 would cost and weigh. The extreme wide angle end can be solved by ultimately making lenses that will only cover the digital ccd. Aside from the increased chip size helping with light gathering capabilities (which at present are already good enough to sustain a 1.5x form factor), there are few reasons to adopt a bigger chip size. The drawbacks are plenty -- cost (of the chip, not even taking the lenses into account), a limited dynamic range scale means you will have problems at the low end of the ISO scale (hence the EOS1D cannot shoot normally at ISO 100 and the S1 Pro below 320.) Which for professional use has more implications than the average joe in the street would understand.