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GPS Product for Nikon DSLRs

Postby olrac on Tue Jul 17, 2007 4:21 pm

I was going through Bjørn Rørslett site and I noticed this product review
http://www.naturfotograf.com/GPS_review.html

This seems to me to be the best GPS solution out there on the market anyone else know of anything else similar?

any way it is a pricy gadget but from all account if you want GPS data on your images then this is the way to go...

product site http://www.dawntech.hk/di-GPS/index.html
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Postby radar on Wed Jul 18, 2007 9:03 am

If you already have a GPS, there is the MC-35 cable but it is very expensive. An alternative is this cable:

http://www.pc-mobile.net/nikongps.htm

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Postby radar on Wed Jul 18, 2007 9:34 am

Another option for those that already have a GPS and this one won't cost you anything.

What you do is get a track log from your GPS when you are on your journey. Make sure you have the time on your DSLR set to the same as your GPS.

When you get back home and upload your photos to your computer also put your track log on there. Then use exiftool and gpsPhoto and your images will get tagged with the appropriate GPS coordinates. Technically, you don't have to use ExifTool yourself, you just need it installed since gpsPhoto uses it for the tagging.

Exiftool:
http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/

gpsPhoto:
http://www.carto.net/projects/photoTools/gpsPhoto/

This will run on Windows, Mac, Linux. See the instructions on the sites above. Even if you don't have a GPS, you should at least have ExifTool anyway 8)

And a tool for the Mac fans, it does not require any extra software and has a gui for those cli challenged types ;)
http://oregonstate.edu/~earlyj/gpsphotolinker/index.php

Nothing to buy, no cable to fiddle with,

Have fun,

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EDIT: add the Mac only gps Photolinker)
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Postby gstark on Wed Jul 18, 2007 10:38 am

radar wrote:Nothing to buy, no cable to fiddle with,


But it does require a GPS system that logs your travels. I don't believe that all of them do ....

Please correct me if I'm wrong ... And feel free to add to this list so that we can build up a reasonable list of these products/features.


I think Co-Pilot does ....

Tom Tom does not.

Route 66 does not.

Mio does not ...
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Postby stubbsy on Wed Jul 18, 2007 11:51 am

I have route66 and previously destinator. Neither of them do track logs either. My experience is ones deisgned for city folk to find their way around the city don't (eg copilot, route66 etc). Ones for city folk to find their way around the bush :lol: (eg oziexplorer) do have track mapping.
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Postby radar on Wed Jul 18, 2007 12:25 pm

Gary and Peter,

you are right, a lot of the car navigation GPS systems do not have the tracklog feature. As Peter says, it is mostly found in the GPS's that are used for going bush such as the Magellan Explorist 210 and 600. The software that I mention above require the tracklog in GPX format.

Thanks for pointing this out as I have mostly been looking at the bushwalking models.

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Postby sirhc55 on Wed Jul 18, 2007 12:37 pm

I have been looking at this unit http://www.dawntech.hk/di-GPS/n2.htm - highly recommended by Moose
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Postby ATJ on Wed Jul 18, 2007 12:59 pm

What a pity GPS doesn't work underwater. This would be very handy for my photography as I could pinpoint exactly (within a few metres) where something was. I already synchronise my dive watch and camera so I can semi-automatically determine the depth of each photograph, but adding the other two dimensions would be so cool.
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