Originally posted by WPRESTO Seems to me, considering the conditions you expect to encounter, a camera that can be dropped into the mud
, rinsed in a puddle
, wiped clean with a dirty sock
and then function 100% normally
is vastly more valuable than a viewfinder.
I agree entirely in principle with you, and I already own a rugged camera, and it has all the wonderful properties you outlined. BUT with the light at the right angle, the viewfinder becomes unusable. This isn't theoretical . . . the first time I took my rugged camera kayaking, I found myself having to put the camera on full wide, pointing in the general direction of the subject, and pressing the shutter . . . because I couldn't see the screen.
I have written to Olympus and begged them to make a rugged camera with a viewfinder, even one of those not-so-excellent optical tunnel viewfinders that you could find on the Canon G12, etc.
Cheers, Jock