Bit odd this one, Was shooting yesterday on auto mode and all of a sudden the viewfinder went black, Now all settings etc are visible in the viewfider and everything seems to be working, shutter fires, flash works but nothing in the viewfinder and al...
Sadly none of the suggestions solved the problem, Canon here in the UK wanted around £160 to fix the problem so I ended buying another as new SX50HS from ebay for the same price! Thanks to those who got back to me most appreciated.
Thanks for the reply John, Yes it is odd, the LCD is working fine and have done various resets as you suggested. The only easy way to describe it is that its like you left the lens cap on so there is no view at all.I'm not to up on these things sadly...