I don't expect to see cameras available for retail sale before about NAB next year. The KS supporters will probably get theirs this year. If you are not on the early reservation list for the BMD you are not likely to get one before next year either.
Both of these are very interesting cameras to me. May wind up with one of each. I do have still lenses I could use with the BMC. But I also have a cabinet full of vintage 16mm cine glass that I really look forward to playing with.
I like the look of the Kodak sensor too. I watched that beautiful CO fashion piece and shortly afterwards happened to see a trailer for Cowboys and Aliens. One of the scenes in that trailer had a color and texture quality amazingly similar to the Ikonoskop footage. If the software and firmware for the Digital Bolex is as good as Joe wants it to be, the camera will be able to produce very film like image quality.
One of the advantages of CCD over CMOS is very high pixel to pixel consistency which makes achieving high image quality a bit easier. It is much more difficult to correct pixel inconsistency in CMOS as you have to separately correct each individual pixel for output level and noise.
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