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Originally Posted by Botnst
With a digital camera you could put the lens and photomultiplier in one hand and the memory chip somewhere else. The viewfinder needn't be attached to the body of a device. It could be worn over the eye.
It's inertia, not necessity, that drives camera design.
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You could, but unless the three are wired together, you'd need three sets of batteries. The memory card also isn't very large.
A lot of cameras don't come with viewfinders anymore, but with a screen on back. This being said, optical viewfinders as found on some SLRs are actually a good thing. Illuminating an LCD eats power. An optical viewfinder allows the camera to use next to zero power unless actually taking a photo.
Personally, I'm surprised that no one makes a large lens with a pistol grip and a small box or cylinder for the image capture electronics, batteries, and memory card behind it, with a prismatic viewfinder on top. But perhaps that would be too easily mistaken for a hand cannon, leading to lawsuits...