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MAC 40612
One thing that I've always had to have on my digital cameras is a viewfinder [either digital or optical] as I've found trying to take shots outside in bright sunlight using a rear screen is a complete non-starter for me, as most [if not all] screens are virtually impossible to use in bright sunlight.
Thank you for your suggestions. Yours, and others', suggest I need to take the train to London and visit a camera shop.
I am left-handed, and therefore left-eyed, and the viewfinder of most cameras is on the left. In the analogue days I had a Rolleiflex (viewfinder on top, twin-lens reflex) but it was too big and cumbersome to take on planes so I also had an Olympus XA which I used to shoot through with my nose in the way, which wasn't ideal, as the XA used your vision of the subject through the viewfinder to put two images of the subject together to manually focus. Digital cameras with a screen on the back are much better for me, even if they don't work in bright sunlight, and the controls are on the wrong side.
I'd dearly love a digital version of the Olympus XA, it had manual everything, and fit in a shirt pocket. I'm really looking for the closest digital equivalent to an XA in form factor, but with optical zoom and colour temperature adjustment, and 1080/60Hz, which of course an analogue camera couldn't do, you had to load different film, and didn't do cine. I don't mind if colour temperature is buried deep in the menus, if you go from filming through the window to filming the inside of the cabin (or filming your lunch), you need to adjust the colour temperature.