Originally posted by stevebrot Lack of an eyepiece shutter/blind has been a weak spot of camera design...
I couldn't agree more...
I've seen many creative solutions in the past 40 years, the best obviously being the built in blind as my good old Praktica EE2 (my very first SLR in 1979) had it. Minolta at that time had a smart solution too: You could slide the camera strap through the rear part of the viewfinder cap, so that the cap got permanently attached to the neckholder strap. I waited almost 20 year for Pentax to come up with something like this and indeed, Pentax neckholder straps of the 90ies (e.g. for the Z-1P or the MZ-3) had a small pocket on the strap where the viewfinder cap could be stored.
I wonder why such simple and cheap solutions got dropped in the 21st century....