General Electric A730 user reviews (Black)

0.5 stars

"Worst camera I've seen. Fuzzy pictures." on May 9, 2009 by Goldilocks56

Pros: Small, inexpensive

Cons: Picture quality is the worst that I've ever seen. Even on flash it is shooting well below 1/60 of a second. the Electronic stabiization doesn't do much. Even on sports mode it didin't use high shutter speeds given fuzzy pictures on still people.

Summary: I don't know what GE was thinking when it designed the firmware for it's camera. It has no manual override to compensate for it's automatic lousy decision making. I purchased it for my mom of 80 years who never owned a digital camera, and only shot with inexpensive point and shoot film cameras. I returned the GE and brought another brand. It would have been embarrassing to give her a camera that takes worst pictures than any film point and shoot that she ever owned. Mega pixels mean nothing if the picture isn't clear.

4.5 stars

"Great camera Great price" on March 28, 2009 by rowboat71

Pros: ISO of 1600 what is excellent for taking pictures at night.
Auto function works great.
Many features
Good stabilization mode
Lightweighted
Better than the most (<100? cameras)

Cons: Some say - batteries - I think this isn't a great con that can be overwhelmed by setting the lcd brightness to the minimum (simple)
Non real cons so far

4.5 stars

"top of the line features for a low price" on July 17, 2008 by david123510

Pros: great features, easy to use right out of box, inexpensive, high quality video rec, uses AA's instead of AAA batteries, great value

Cons: slow start up, records video in .mov and it's very prone to fingerprints

Summary: i just bought myself one and love it. this camera is great for a
beginner or someone who wants a good, cheap, compact camera. It uses batteries up quickly so if you go out for awhile be sure to bring extras.