(But dang it, Doug, when are we going to convince you that in-camera digital zoom is terrible, and you're better off doing the crop/scale on your PC at home?).
I don't think you will. I
compose my pictures in the camera. I don't take wide-view pictures with the idea that later I can get rid of the stuff I didn't want in the first place.
That's another reason that my absolute unbreakable requirement for a camera is a 100% viewfinder. I don't need the distraction of extraneous stuff in my field of view when I am composing my shot.
tanstaafl.