I suppose the equivalent is the swiveling LCD screen, but I HATE using the LCD screen - you can't see it at all in bright light, and I just can't see enough detail in it to make it useful for the kind of pictures I take. Older eyes and graduated lens glasses don't help. And I take a lot of pictures near the ground, or at funny angles where having to get your eye up to the EFV isn't easy.

Doesn't anybody else have this problem? That moveable eyepiece was one of the best things about the Dimage - anybody know of a similar camera (ie, non-SLR prosumer) that has it? Or how do you deal with it?

WW

The next best is a swiveling LCD backpanel. My experience with these has also been miserable in bright light, but some are better than others. It would help if a shade was available. I have a Canon S2 IS with a viewfinder and swiveling back panel. But that one is not a convential optical finder. It displays a low resolution image from the sensor into the eyepiece. The camera algorithn darkens this image as the light brightens to the extent that it becomes too dark to be useful in sunlight. (Conversly, the viewfinder image is brightened as the scene darkens, and produces an amazingly viewable image down to the point where it is too dark to photogaph. When the light fails, it turns on a small green spot light to aid autofocusing.)