Hands-on with General Imaging's E-1050

Another colorful point-and-shoot, you say? Yes, but with a difference: General Imaging's E-1050 uses Geotate's clever approach to geotagging your photos. Add that to a 10-megapixel sensor, 5x zoom, electronic image stabilization and face detection and red eye removal that's in vogue this year, and you've got an interesting little package. Unfortunately, the unit was tethered by its HDMI port to a TV, so we couldn't play around with the unit and give away our location, so we'll have to wait and see if geotagging is enough of a checkmark to differentiate this little digicam.

Hands-on with General Imaging's E-1050

[Chris8pie Posted Jan 31st 2008 10:26PM]

Sounds cool but I'd rather get a brand I trust like Cannon or Sony. Also, anyone know the price of this?

[Diraan Posted Jan 31st 2008 10:30PM]

I think all this geotagging is a fad personally. Although I reckon all the big manufacturers are going to pick up the technology.

I could see it being useful form a journalists or an artists point of view where you are taking possibly hundreds of photos a day. But I have never opened up a picture and had no idea where I was when I took it.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 1st 2008 12:13AM]

do you get any sense of the build quality? did it feel solid in you hand? was it heavy?

[SpaceLemur Posted Feb 1st 2008 12:22AM]

General Imaging?

Isn't that the same GE (AKA General Electric) camera that was written up earlier today? The same one that's in fact linked to in the article?