Don't Buy GE Power X5 Pro Series Before You Read This!!

S140 for GE Power X5 Pro Series

Listed for $140, GE Power X5 Pro Series sounds cheap and unconvincing for a compact digital camera. Beside, GE is known as a home appliance and light bulb manufacturer than a digital camera. We will see whether the Power X5 Pro from GE is competitive enough or not.

GE Power X5 Pro Series doesn’t come in an elegant or fancy design, it seem old but comfortable in your hand. Despite its simple design, the case is pretty solid.

The good thing about the Power X5 is easy to operate; beginners will found it very simple. All buttons are well-proportioned, clearly labeled and have enough distance from each other. The X5 offers two different menu systems. Pressing the Func / OK button in the middle of the back four-way pad brings a dialogue with relevant recording settings on the display. Menu with the more radical options appears after pressing the Menu button.

Even tough the menus are not pretty and easy to read, the structure is logical and easy to understand. The manual book also comes with the box in case you need them.

The four AA batteries survive for about 300 photos, if you replace them with NiMH batteries, they will survive for 500 photos.

GE Power X5 Pro Series

On the right side of the case, the X5 offers a micro-USB port. If you invest in an optional micro-USB to AV cable, it can be use as a video output. In the box itself, unfortunately, only a USB-string is included.

Features of GE Power X5 Pro Series

The GE X5 has some extraordinary features, at least for its price range. For example, in the range of $140 this is the only camera with a manual recording mode and the semi-automatic aperture and shutter priority programs. In the wide-angle to the panel of six values, F3, 0, and F7, 3 are available. At the maximum focal length, it is only F5, 8 and F7, 3 to choose from. The shutter speed can vary between 1 / 2000 and 30 seconds.

Of course there is also full-automatic and automatic scene detection. Unfortunately, the auto scene is not particularly reliable, and puts the subject occasionally in the wrong drawer. The "normal" automatic however, gives good results.

Finally, GE Power X5 Pro Series has a relatively advanced panorama mode. By simply select the desired starting point of wide-screen and presses the shutter button. Then the X5 shows two landmarks on the display that identical to the digital camera for the next partial image to align properly.

GE Power X5 pro is a perfect camera for macro shooting. The camera delivers bright light and very nice photos. The minimum focusing distance is 5 inches.

Performance

Like most cameras in this class, the GE X5 is rather slow. It takes at least 2.5 seconds before taking a picture. Elapse between two images about 4.2 seconds. NSHAPE lightning forced the break extended to suspected hibernating 4.7 seconds.

The X5 takes relatively long 0.7 seconds to focus on normal light condition. In low contrast or low light condition, this value deteriorates to 0.9 seconds. You can shoot fast moving objects with the GE X5, but you will need a little luck, perseverance and patience - or clairvoyant abilities. The burst mode provides 0.8 frames per second.

Image quality

With other $140 cameras you can not expect spectacular image quality. But GE Power X5 Pro Series delivers better pictures than we would have expected it given the price, specifications, and - admittedly - and the brand. Like most cheap digital cameras, the Power X5 camera works best with the ISO up to 200. Higher sensitivities make noise. Up to ISO 800 the results is acceptable for small photos. The highest sensitivities of both ISO 1600 and 3200 are not recommended.

Up to and including ISO 200, the color rendering of the X5 is very good. At higher sensitivities the colors look more washed out and dull. After all, there is also a manual setting that is easy to configure and fast and take pictures under low light condition at decent quality.

The video quality of the X5 is fine. Good enough for YouTube quality. The optical zoom works while recording, and there is a continuous autofocus. The focus-tracking is a bit slow, but both the zoom and the focus motor is very quiet and the clips are practically inaudible.

Conclusion

Anyone want to spent $140 for a digital camera with 15x optical zoom, electronic viewfinder and manual shooting modes must hardly for GE Power X5 Pro Series. As long as lots of light - preferably sunlight - is present, the bridge camera delivers decent photos. For action images the camera is just too slow. But if Electronic viewfinder is unnecessary, then better go for Canon PowerShot SX130 IS.



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