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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Neil" data-source="post: 1256215" data-attributes="member: 1568">Kev,      I'm still doing both.  Yesterday I had the Olympus E420 and the Canon G6 out in the local park. My D3 is in for service at the moment (problem with the 1.4x tele connection ).I'm treating the E420 as a digicam and using it's great LiveView feature to get many of my images but it's buffer is still a bit small for long sequences of action , eg. flamingos bathing in the local park or egrets fighting over food.I like the digicam where I need to be unobtrusive eg in a hide in the bush at very close distances (6 - 10 metres) I don't want any noise at all, or where I want to use special features eg the multiple frame self-timer of the Canons.The Auto Focus of the Canon G6 and Nikon 8400 and P5100 that I use is much more accurate than my Manual Focusing too. With the Olympus E420 though I can get AF in LiveView Mode in good light so the difference between the two systems is narrowing and will disappear soon, if not already.I also want RAW so that limits my choices with digicams, and I want low noise images too. If you can get the vibration issue out of the equation then a light-weight,low noise DSLR with good LiveView is the way to go. But bear in mind that it won't be ready for the quick flight shot if it's on the scope.Neil.</blockquote>