You have the best list of negatives that I have read. Many of your comments are very true, some are camera specific. Keep testing a few more units. Since I use a Nikon 880 and have for a year. I have gotten some very good photos and have learned a lot about the genre. I have controls to modify many of your objections. They are there but hard to learn and use. I believe the crossover to digital is a few models in the future. When the engineers go talk to the real photographers about using a camera they will give us some decent units to choose from.