<![CDATA[PMA 07: GE Goes All Hep Cat on Those Digital Cameras and So Forth - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[PMA 07: GE Goes All Hep Cat on Those Digital Cameras and So Forth - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[PMA 07: GE Goes All Hep Cat on Those Digital Cameras and So Forth]]> Who would have thought that the calculator and watch company of Casio would have a force in the digital camera market 5 years ago, today they do. Anything is possible, however I am starting to wonder where the bottom is. If you look hard enough you can find a decent 7mp p&s with your now standard 3x or 4x optical zoom for under $200 and a 2gb SD card for under $30. The LCD screens are as big as they are going to get, there is barely any room on a camera to hold it anymore and they are about as thin as one could hope to get them.

Image stabilization is coming to more p&s cameras as well as higher iso with better noise reduction but something else is going to be needed to push this segment of the industry forward. As it stands, there are too many 6-8mp 3-5x point and shoots that don't offer anything unique, the only ones that really stand out are the Olympus model that is waterproof to 10' and drop resistent and a few of the larger p&s cameras offered by Kodak and Canon with 10-12x optical zooms.

Mike Panic

]]> <![CDATA[PMA 07: GE Goes All Hep Cat on Those Digital Cameras and So Forth]]> More competitors in a saturated market = more innovation and lower prices. So maybe it bruises your poor little anti-bourgeois aesthetic sensibilities. Get over it. Don't want a GE camera? Pretend they don't exist.

middy

]]> <![CDATA[PMA 07: GE Goes All Hep Cat on Those Digital Cameras and So Forth]]> @jcase757: Here's the full story, from Business Week:
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/feb2007/tc2...
I assumed that Thomson Consumer Electronics (which builds GE and RCA televisions) was behind this, but apparently GE's backing some other company.

Bauhaus

]]> <![CDATA[PMA 07: GE Goes All Hep Cat on Those Digital Cameras and So Forth]]> aww this is so they can be recognized as digital electronics purveyors, instead of just icebox makers. Must mean they are on to something bigger and better down the line.

911

]]> <![CDATA[PMA 07: GE Goes All Hep Cat on Those Digital Cameras and So Forth]]> "GE. We bring the good things of yesterday to life."

CafeRacer1200

]]> <![CDATA[PMA 07: GE Goes All Hep Cat on Those Digital Cameras and So Forth]]> smells kind of like samsung or olympus though...

med

]]> <![CDATA[PMA 07: GE Goes All Hep Cat on Those Digital Cameras and So Forth]]> let me be the first to say

*gag*

I agree with the post, nothing special, and no reason to enter such a saturated market just for the sake of introducing a new brand.

med

]]> <![CDATA[PMA 07: GE Goes All Hep Cat on Those Digital Cameras and So Forth]]> Aren't these cameras being manufacturered by somebody else and just being rebranded to GE?

rbf2000

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