Is the DC260 LCD preview really that bad?
Yes, I’m afraid it is. The LCD live preview is one of the weakest features of the DC260, especially in comparison to other similar cameras like the Nikon Coolpix 900. The Kodak camera has a very slow frame rate — right around four frames per second. This makes it very hard to frame high-action scenes, or to compose while moving. You can move the camera just a little bit, and lose your bearings at telephoto ranges. The picture is grainy, especially in low light where it can become completely washed out in green or grey snow. (Probably because they whack the gain of the CCD sensor way up to compensate.) Of course, the camera’s CCD wasn’t meant to capture well without light or flash, so this is understandable. I find that as bad as it looks, I can usually make out enough of the edges of the scene to compose in low light. In addition, the three colors (red, green, blue) are apparently scanned separately, so any motion during the frame capture turns the image into a multicolor smear. Think
