[BigV]

You say that from your film bias.

Let me back up... you've forgotten more about photography that I will probably ever learn, buddy. I know that. But WYSIWYG is misleading. It is true that the same lens that sees, takes. But that's also true of the digital non-slrs lcd display. What's being displayed is what will be taken--or should/could. Still one set of lenses.

But back to the Seeing part of what I'm getting. My ability to see (not conceive, that's another thing) what I want to make through the viewfinder is much more limited than what I can see via the lcd. The size is one big factor. I can see much more detail in a three inch lcd than I can in a three-eighths inch viewfinder. There are also other shooting conditions, very dark and unusual-not-taken-from-my-face camera positions that render the viewfinder unusable.

I like the lcd, I sometimes use the viewfinder. I am, at the moment, headed down the digital path. With the exception of dslrs, the optical viewfinders will become less available, I believe. A slightly negative tradeoff that I'm happy to accept.