I am hoping for something in the region of UK£150-175. Run that through a currency converter and it's going to look quite expensive

but no, they really do cost over £200 here. See, the pricing policy for selling cameras and lenses in the UK seems to be... to take the US price and change the $ to a £. Seriously. We are getting ripped off so badly they might as well just rob us at gunpoint.
So in other words, this probably isn't a good deal for US buyers
