Cute New GPS Camera Toy From Sony

Indeed
http://www.nikon.com.a​u …em.php?pid=671-3d53fc8c01

I was thinking the same and for the same reasons and I agree with Jon that it can be a real mission, on a long trip especially, to remember where the hell you took a whole load of shots ... I been there too many times

seems like its not RAW compatible....

condyk wrote:
I was thinking the same and for the same reasons and I agree with Jon that it can be a real mission, on a long trip especially, to remember where the hell you took a whole load of shots ... I been there too many times

Yep. If this sony thing proves to work on files from other brands or a there is a similar device with a good battery lifetime I might even consider getting one for the africa trip next year. 3 weeks travelling around there and I can easily imagine forgetting where the shots were taken. And no I would not want to bother having a notebook writing down where I shoot.

Use your voice annotation capability, Tommy. Why d'ya think Canon put it in the 1D series?

Hehe I didn't think of that. But feels kind of stupid talking to the camera And with 5 to 7 other photographers around it is bound to be captured and posted here

So tell 'em you're chimping.
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I think there's one major drawback.

I'd want to map where the photos were taken, and then I might want to come back there.

I think to come back I either need an accurate map or another GPA which actually has a screen on it.

So what's the point? You're buying a GPS just because of the synching with your files.

Not sure about the Sony bt the other (trakstick) that were linked had the option to export the data to various formats. One of them being a *.kml file that works with Google Earth. Or a csv file. So what You need is a map device where You can enter the coordinates.

Call the white jacket men then.
Besides shooting for fun I use my gear for research. Whether for pleasure or work, sometimes I am on a shoot for several days and once I have my shots dumped and catalogued they aren't particularly in numerical order. I may recall the trip but not the exact location. I've often thought it would be a blessing to have GPS data embedded since I do need to sometimes go back and reshoot. I even considered the Nikon because of this.

The sony toy and others like are cool gadgets but I don't want that extra step of merging the data from one to my exif data. Nor do I want one more thing to keep track of. I wish canon would have added it to the 30D. Might have made that price difference from the 20D really worth while.

~wu

tommykjensen wrote:
Hehe I didn't think of that. But feels kind of stupid talking to the camera

I talk to my camera all the time,. a soft whisoper every now and then and she takes much better photos

CyberDyneSystems wrote:
I talk to my camera all the time,. a soft whisoper every now and then and she takes much better photos

Those soft whispers can work wonders.

~wu

I think Canon's wrinkle to this concept is to tie a GPS device into the Data Verification Kit that is used for law enforcement. The DVK verifies that the image is unchanged, and is admissible as evidence. If you add the location that the photo was taken, it would be another aspect that could benefit law enforcement, as well as for other uses.

Have Fun,

Apparently you do not venture into the desert or country side in your Irish case