Well my new Nikon D60 arrived this morning. I've crawled thru the manual again (and I'll probably read it about 5 more times before I am comfortable with the camera).

The camera came with two items that I have never seen before ...
1. A hot shoe cap
2. A viewfinder cap

Questions:
What purpose does the hot shoe cap provide? Does anyopne ever replace it after using an external flash? It seems like a rather nice but useless piece of equipment to me since I never saw or used one before.

Is a viewfinder cap really necessary? Does that much light seep in through the viewfinder during time lapse photography? It is a bugger to take the eyepiece off and put the cap on.

Would appreciate any and all opinions.

Thanks