> From my preliminary perusal of HMDs, they seem ridiculously > expensive and > awkward. Does anyone have advice about HMDs ? Is full colour full VGA for $US300 good enough ? :-) "One day" I want to try the EVF display from a Konic Minolta A2 camera. I have an A2 but will bravely resist playing with its display for now as it has heavy futur committments as a acamera. This is the most capable EVF display that I am aware of on any consumer camera - if anyone know of another that will do full colour VGA or better I'd be interested in knowing of it. These are full VGA resolution, ?24 bit colour?, and including focusing optics and housing measure about 35mm w x 23mm h x 40mm deep. The optics include dioptre correction which allow you to place your eye essentially against the viewing lens. It appears that the depth could be much reduced - maybe halved, if some simpler or more distributed optics were used. I have had visions (pun vaguely intended) to mount one of these display with mirror(s) and suitable lenses in/on a cap visor or spectacle frame. I know anothe rpeson in NZ who also wants to try this. As a possible alternative there is a sunglass over-frame used here by some people with very heavy prescription glasses who can stand the social stigma of a very bad looking large and dark sun glasses frame that mounts over ones normal spectacles. One of these would easily mount one of these displays and people would think you were a legally blind social misfit and not in fact an anti-social nerd. My personally intended use is two fold. 1. Extend display from existing camera giving me hands free view of what the camera is seeing either in my hand, else where on my person or even remotely mounted. To do this I "only" need learn how to extend the signal and power feed to the monitor. 2. As a general purpose VGA display. There are two ways to do this. i) The "proper" way is to learn how to drive the display. This may be reasonably standard but as yet I have no information on it. ii) The "easy" ways is to take a whole A2 camera, extend the display as in 1. above and then set it in macro mode and point it at a display that I can drive. This requires no interfacing, leaves the camera almost standard (except for the connection extension :-) ) and is rapidly implemented. > I think I want a single eye display that one can "look through" > easily if the display is dimmed. > I think I want 1/4 VGA or better. Maybe it could mount on some > glasses or googles or maybe on a baseball cap "bill". The above system is NOT look through HUD style but is easily enough rendered so with half silvered mirrors or similar. Also, if one is happy with the VGA resolutio a camera could be used for pseudo look-through functionality with mixing of outside and data signals as required. A Minolta A2 can be acquired on ebay for around $US300 up. I bought one here in good condition for $NZ500 =~ $US300. Note that it MUST be an A2. The earlier and later models had inferior or much inferior EVFs. Model line was 7 7i 7Hi A1 A2 A200. The A200 DISPLAY IS WORSE. Konica-Minolta have, sadly, left the building, and while Sony is continuing their DSLR line there is no sign yet of anything with such a superb EVF. Russell OpenChannelDspam2006 -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist