General Electric G1 Review

July 12th, 2007

The G1 can, on occasion, deliver decent quality shots. As long as there’s nothing too dark or too bright in the scene, exposures look fine. And the automatic white balance works pretty well. However, the camera more often produces photos with soft edges and smeared details; at settings of ISO 400 and above they’re just a big mess for anything but e-mail. Its MPEG-4 movie capture is similarly inconsistent. … Most inexpensive digital cameras fill their basic function: they point, they shoot, they produce photos. From that standpoint, the General Electric G1 succeeds. But any product on our list of top budget cameras–and even some that didn’t make the cut–succeeds far better.”