Best Rated Digital Camera World

Broaden your view with the all new GE A950. With a spacious 2.5-inch high-resolution LCD screen with auto adjust brightness, photo playback is a delightful experience. Featuring a generous 9-megapixel resolution, 5x optical zoom and 5.7x digital zoom. The A950 also provides great extras such as pan capture panorama produced by panning the camera across to create a seamless panoramic picture, auto scene detection, blink detection, smile detection, face detection, in-camera red-eye removal, electronic image stabilization and Quick Time Motion JPEG movie recording. Plus the impressive 24MB internal memory is expandable with an SD/SDHC card up to an additional 8 gigabytes. Additional specs include Focal length of 6.3mm (wide) to 31.5mm (Tele) which is the 35mm film equivalent of 35mm (wide) to 175mm (Tele), F number of F3.0 (Wide) to F4.7(Tele), Normal focusing range of 60 cm (Wide) to 80 cm (Tele), Macro of 5cm-80cm ,Shooting modes of Auto, Manual, ASCN, Image Stabilization, Movie, Scene (Sport, Children, Indoor, Leaf, Snow, Sunset, Fireworks, Glass, Museum, Landscape, Night Landscape, Night Portrait, Portrait), and Panorama, Auto ISO sensitivity of 1600. Pictbridge compatability,ExifPrint support, multi-language support, USB 2.0 and AV out (proprietary connector) jacks. This products ships with AA batteries, USB cable, AV cable, Wrist Strap, CD-ROM, Arcsoft Photo Impression 6 editing software, Manual, Quick Start Guide, and Warranty Card.

User Reviews about GE A950-BK 9MP Digital Camera with 5X Optical Zoom and 2.5 Inch LCD with Auto Brightness - Black

Went from a Canon Elphe to this cheapo. I was surprisingly impressed. The battery life is very good, pictures are great. Video and audio very nice as well. I think this camera has a better microphone than many other more expensive cameras. The wide lens w 5x Zoom is just that little extra I need with many only having a 3x optical zoom. This camera is quite solid and feels sturdy. Transferring files to and from camera is as straight forward as any simple external drive, flash card, usb drive etc. This was not the case with my Canon. Many people seem to have a hard time getting good shots with this. To use image stabilization you must set the dial to image stabilization mode and out of the standard camera mode. This is probably other reviewers problems. Helps to learn a little about working the camera before writing a review.

The only Con I have is that it is a larger camera than the very tiny Canon Elph. At 1/5 the cost who cares! I use energizer rechargeable batteries & I have NO complaints about the battery life. -- Nice Camera!

OK, I picked a cheezey title but this camera is way more amazing than some are giving credit for. Occasionally I'll get a blurry pic if I'm not careful but most of them are way beyond what I expected. I've had a walking person in mixed light turn out blurry, probably, because I wiggled or because of the mixed light but I also caught a mountain waterfall with bits of flying water stunningly frozen in time.

I have a nice Canon XTi DSLR and a very nice lens for it that I got for nature photography. Trouble is, on most backpacking trips I have enough weight already so I bought this little GE jewel for portability that I could keep handy in a front pocket. Unless I expect to need serious magnification, the DSLR will stay home and might even get sold if idle for too long.

I'd read in one or two reviews that having the camera set on full 9MP might make it more apt to blur so I set it on 5MP for now. Honestly, the menu is not so difficult if you study it a little. It is definitely way easier than most I've seen but still manages many features. It doesn't take long, even without peeking at the manual, to scroll through every part of the menu and get a complete understanding (but do read the manual). I admit I had doubts about the "smile detection" feature and didn't even notice it has its own button till a couple days ago when I tried it. I wanted to get myself in a group shot and forgot where to turn on the self-timer. Rather than look in the menus, I told my friends to not smile till I got in the pic and gave them a cue. I pushed the :-) button, pressed the shutter button halfway down to focus, then pushed it down, and walked over and got in the group. Then, as soon as we all smiled, we heard the shutter trip. Haha! It worked and even served as a self-timer! I guess for serious or scowling shots, I'd have to use the real self-timer.

Anyway, after reviews I'd read had me thinking I might be returning this camera, it is definitely a keeper! For those with the blurry shots, ALWAYS push the shutter button part way till it focuses, then take your shot. If that didn't fix things, try lowering the pixel range to 5MP. You still get a hi-def shot twice as big as a 17" monitor screen and needing to be reduced.

I don't expect this to send my HD video cam packing but the little video shots I've tried were also very impressive. I'm wishing I had thought to take a 5 second moving snapshot of that waterfall. I'm sounding like an ad. A short review would be too short. Lastly, a tip... if you try to get a macro shot of a flower and have trouble focusing, put your hand beside the flower and focus on it, hold that focus, move your hand, and shoot the flower. -- Smile!!!