Frank,

Hoodman USA is selling hoods for the LCD, I can't seem to find the lens hoods though. They do lens hoods too?

Actually, I have just gotten my wife to sew me a copy of what you have shown sticking on your MX300 (the one with the Photoshop blue background). Could have saved the trouble by just buying a Hoodman.

I am now rushing out a rain shelter for my cam to use outdoors. I am cutting up an old PVC handbag and throwing it over my cam with some velcro and elastic bands. Will keep you guys informed.

I have to dig up the site for lens / viewfinder hoods. That's not the right link. Sorry. I'll keep digging.

Wow Bryan, pretty large hoods!

Thanks for the link.

BTW, I have completed my rain sheild for my cam.

I use two bands of cloth, about 15mm across, and sew velcros to them. These two bands wrap around the battery over the viewfinder at the back, and the focus ring and my adpator rings on the front.

A piece of heavier PVC is then thrown over, attached to bits of velcro on the bands to be held in place.

Coupled with a rubber hood, the set-up will work in a drizzle, and I may even risk a light rain on a non-windy day.