Technology...

How it's always shifting.  I just noticed some Best Buy commercial where a guy is messing around with a DSLR of some variety, and is taking pictures by framing things up in the LCD screen on the back, just like all the little digital point and shoots all over the place.

My D40 doesn't do real time display on the LCD screen, you have to look through the viewfinder like a real camera, and a few of my friends always get confused when I tell them to go ahead and play around with it at the range and whatnot.  One of these days I'm going to drag out the old FM10 and just laugh... I mean it doesn't even focus by itself!

The nice thing about viewfinders though, is that even in bright light, you can still see what you're doing.  No glare.  I have an Olympus point and shoot type camera that doesn't even have a viewfinder, just the screen, and every now and then you can't see much.  The only real advantage I can see with the screen is I don't have to mess with my hat to take a picture.