Hi Wrexile
Take a look at the Fuji F10 or F11 beware they take XD card so extra buying
Sony wise, look at the Sony W7, or W5, i am trying out the Sony N1 at the moment as reccommended to me by Stephen Ingraham the Zeiss optics expert in the U.S. again, sony memory cards so change of memory format, but good battery life
These cameras will need a meccano kit of some kind to attach them as they all have telescopic external zooms, search the forum for a universal adapter ( Baader type adapter seems to be popular at around £30 ? i seem to remember?) others may suggest a different adpater
Cable release a little difficult to fix as most of these universal adapters use the screw thread located under the camera to attach to each other, Jessops or eagleeye for these if you know it will work, one solution is to use a velcro type cable release with a metal stud which has a thread in the core, kindly supplied by Deja Vu on this forum, if you contact him and give him the dimensions, he will make for you at a very reasonable price, he has made them for me and others on this forum
Finally LCD eye shade, either a home made job or look on the eagleeye website, check your LCD screen dimensions on one of the camera review sites dpreview is good
hope this helps?
Rgds
Paul