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GE G1

First Impressions Review

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March 11, 2007 By Richard Baguley
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Manual Control Options
The G1 does boast a manual mode, which has its own spot on the mode dial. However, this wasn’t fully functional on the preproduction mode that we looked at, so we were unable to ascertain how easy to use this might be.
 
Focus
Auto Focus
The Auto focus of the G1 was adequate, but not great. In our limited tests at the PMA show in Vegas, it was pretty quick to snap to focus, typically taking under half a second. It did swim a little bit in low light, though. You do get a good degree of control over how the focusing works, with the option to engage the auto focus constantly or just when the shutter is pressed.
 
The G1 can track a single face. To do this, you frame the image with the face in the center, then press the face tracking button. The camera will then track the face in the image, using it as the focus and metering point. In our limited tests, it seemed to work pretty well, keeping track of a face as the subject moved round the frame.
 
Manual Focus
No manual focus mode is present on the G1. It’s auto focus only, all the way.
 
ISO
The G1 has a very wide ISO range, starting at 100 and going up to an impressive 3200. The highest setting is only available with a reduced resolution, though. The maximum resolution in this mode is 1.7 megapixels. General Imaging also claims that its considering adding an ISO 64 setting.
 
White Balance
7 options are available for white balance: Auto, Daylight, Cloudy, Tungsten, Fluorescent, Fluorescent H and Measured, which is an evaluative mode. That’s a good selection, and it is nice to see a point-and-shoot camera with a proper evaluative white balance mode.
 
Exposure
As well as the manual mode, there is an exposure compensation control that has a two stop range, in one third of a stop steps.
 
Metering
The usual options for metering are present: a full screen evaluative mode, a center weighted mode, and a spot metering mode.
 
Shutter Speed
The shutter speed of the G1 has a range of 4 seconds down to 1/2000 of a second. In the full manual mode, the longest shutter speed goes up to 30 seconds. Because the manual mode of the G1 wasn’t working on the model we looked at, we weren’t able to judge how easy it is to set the shutter speed manually.
 
Aperture
The aperture range of the small 3x zoom lens is from f3.5 at the wide end to f4.3 at the telephoto end of the zoom range. The maximum aperture setting isn’t known.  
 

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