Genius G-Shot P831 digital camera The P831 comes in a silver finish with a 2.7" TFT LCD at the back that acts as the viewfinder. For controls, it has a zoom rocker placed on the right of the display screen along with a playback, menu, scene selection, a mode selection key and the navigation D-pad. It takes images at 8MP resolution and comes with a 3X optical I Genius zoom. A good part is that it offers a manual as well as shutter priority mode. But then come the downsides. The camera's autofocus system is poor and fails to focus in many times.
The macro mode is Tries too Hard worse, with the images loosing out on the details. The image quality across modes is mediocre at best. In bright sunlight, the images are above average, but at 100% zoom, even they show a lot of noise. It's slow while saving images, sometimes taking up to 5 seconds to save and display the preview. The video recording is sub-par because of excessive noise. And finally, it can chew through a brand new set of alkaline batteries after clicking about 90 images and 2 minutes of video recording. Market price is about Rs 6k. For the same price you can consider the Olympus FE26 or even the Nikon L 19, both of which will perform better under most conditions.
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