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GE G1

First Impressions Review

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March 11, 2007 By Richard Baguley
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GE G1
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Protect One, All



Delete


One, All


DPOF


One, All, Reset


Text Display


On, Off


Trim


Dialog to trim image


Resize


Dialog to resize image


Rotate


Dialog to rotate image


Slide Show


Basic slide show features

 
Auto Mode
When you set the control dial to the auto mode, the camera itself takes control over settings such as white balance and shutter speed. We weren’t able to test how good it was at making decisions at PMA, so we’ll reserve judgment on how good the auto mode is. The user can still set the image size and quality, though.
 
Movie Mode
The G1 records movies at a resolution of 640 x 480 pixels or 320 x 240 pixels, both at a switchable frame rate of 30 or 15 frames per second. The files are saved as MPEG-4 files, which are pretty small but have high quality. The only limit on the length of movies is the amount of memory available.
 
Drive/Burst Mode
The G1 has a good selection of burst modes available: you can shoot continuously, shoot a burst of 5 images, shoot continuously and just preserve the last five images, or take images at a preset interval. The latter feature was not working on the preproduction unit that we looked at. General Imaging claims a shooting speed of 2.1 frames per second, with a maximum burst size of 5 images. That’s pretty average. It's enough to try and capture your son catching the football but not enough to capture a complete pass.
 
Playback Mode
The G1 is a little unusual in offering some basic editing capabilities which is not what we usually see on a point-and-shoot camera. The Playback mode menus has the following options:
 
 
The editing tools are pretty basic, though. Images can be resized, rotated and trimmed, but there are no color correction or pixel editing tools. In addition, editing an image does not mean deleting the original. The camera will create a new image with the edited version.
 
Custom Image Presets
13 scene modes are provided on the G1: Sport, Child, Indoor, Flowers, Snow, Beach, Firework, Snow, Museum, Landscape, Night Portrait and Night Landscape. There is also a portrait mode on the mode dial.
 

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