Product Description

The GE A835 is loaded with the features beginning photographers want most. Like, a simple, intuitive user interface to reduce the user's learning curve. A 3X optical zoom and 4.5X digital zoom, combined 13.5x zoom, capture every detail. A vibrant 2.5 inch LCD screen makes it easy to frame your subject and review your images. The A835 provides great extras such as auto-brightness, in-camera panoramic stitching, red-eye removal, face-tracking, smile detection, blink detection, electronic stabilization and MPEG-4 movie recording. Powered by two AA batteries, it even has an SD/SDHC memory card slot expandable up to an amazing 4 gigabytes and features the latest GE25mm slim body styling. Additional specs include Focal length of 6.1mm (wide) to 18.3 mm (Tele) which is the 35mm film equivalent of 36mm (wide) to 108mm (Tele), F number of F2.8 (Wide) to F4.8(Tele), Normal focusing range of 60 cm, Macros of 5cm (Wide) to 30cm (Tele), Image compression of Best, Fine, and Normal, 640x480 movie resolution at 30 fps, Shooting modes of Auto, Manual, Image Stabilization, Scene (Sport, Children, Indoor, Leaf, Snow, Sunset, Fireworks, Glass, Museum, Landscape, Night Landscape, Night Portrait), Panorama and Portrait, True ISO sensitivity of 1600, AF methods of TTL 9-Point Focusing AF, Single AF, Multi-AF, AF Assist Beam (On/Off), Light Metering Methods of Ai AE, Center-weighted Average, and Spot (Fixed to center of frame), Playback modes of single photo, index, slide show, movie, and zoom. White Balance Controls of Auto, Daylight, Cloudy, Fluorescent, Fluorescent CWF, Incandescent and Manual, Flash Settings of Auto, Red-Eye Reduction, Forced Flash, No Flash, Slow Synchro, and Red-Eye plus Slow Synchro, Internal memory of 32MB, Pictbridge compatability, USB 2.0 and AV out jacks. This products ships with two AA alkaline batteries, USB cable, AV cable, Wrist Strap, CD-ROM, Manuals, Quick Start Guide, and Warranty Card.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #20158 in Camera & Photo
• Color: Black
• Brand: General Electric
• Model: A835 BK
• Dimensions: .0" h x .0" w x .0" l, 1.05 pounds
• Display size: 2.5

Features

• 8MP Digital Camera
• 3X Optical and 4.5 Digital Zoom
• 2.5 Inch Vibrant LCD
• Electronic Image Stabilization
• Face-Tracking, Panorama Stitching, Blink Detection, Face Detection, Smile Detection, Auto Brightness and Red-Eye Removal Built In

Customer Reviews

Excellent buy
I am so pleased with this camera. Be sure to read every page of the manual and go through the features. The manual is well written and easy, but if you don't learn what the camera can do you will miss out. Fantastic price. Obviously GE wanted to sell some cameras at this point in time so they put a real goodie on the market for a good price. I'm so happy with this. I originally wanted the silver tone, but right now they are doing all the best sales on the black tone which is beautiful; it's only that I feared that the black my eventually scratch. So what. I am so happy with this camera and all the flexible features it has to take photos under different circumstances. Its body is a just tad lightweight if you pick up a pricier similar sized camera in the other hand, but the camera is functioning very smoothly and does not feel chintzy. We'll see how it wears over time, but it's worth if it serves for even only two years. I'm going to take good care of it and count on getting five years. Very happy. (added note: five months later and I'm still very happy with this camera).

Good camera if you don't mind a little headache.
I chose this camera over a Kodak only because of the price. When I first got the cam, it already had an issue---it wouldn't turn on with the rechargeable batteries I had. I tried some disposable ones just to see if the camera even worked and sure enough it did, but it drank 'em up in about 5 minutes. I thought to myself, "surely this cannot be right." So eventually, I checked on the [...] site and I came to find that the A835 and one other model has battery issues that could supposedly be corrected with a firmware update. I followed the instructions to fix the cam but it didn't work. After getting completely fed up with it, I contacted GE and all they could tell me was to use different batteries, some of the name brand ones. I had nearly given up on the camera altogether until something told me that I hadn't done the firmware update correctly....I was right. The file that needed to go on the SD card was apparently in the wrong place because after moving it around, I got the cam to FINALLY work! (*phew*)

Now, I only gave this product 3 stars because of the headache I've had for the past week trying to fix it and the scare it gave me initially that I had bought a c-h-e-a-p camera. Otherwise, the features are great, pictures and video are of decent quality (for the price) and the battery usage is....MUCH better, now that I have it working like it should. Still haven't used it an extended amount of time to see its true endurance, but it lasts longer than 5 minutes now, so I'm a happy camper.

To the potential buyers: consider my experience as a heads-up for what you can possibly go through if you purchase this camera. I don't know if every A835 has the battery issue but if there's a bulletin on the general-imaging website, chances are that you're going to be facing this problem too. Buy at your own risk.

Still learning but happy with it
As someone mentioned, the batteries tend to run out of juice quickly while using the camera. I called the company because I only had 23 pictures and a very short video and I was on my second set of AA Duracells. Apparently, there was a problem with the "firmware upgrade". I was told what to do online to resolve the problem and also told to use Energizer AA lithium batteries for longer life. I was told that the upgrade would be quite simple. My son did it for me and said that it was easy to do. I don't know yet if the problem is fixed but I am glad that a solution was offered by the company.