GPS data sync for photos

Sony has a device that sinks you photo shoots with a GPS device.

This is so cool....especially on those wandering vacations...

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/07/technology/07gps.html?ref=technology

Too bad its not built into the camera. I suppose that day will come.

Sony is often first with these kind of innovations.

I wonder if this device will work with any camera. I trust it does. The software sync's the time/day stamp with the time/day stamp of the GPS info through the computer software that comes with the device.

designprof said:

Sony has a device that sinks you photo shoots with a GPS device.

This is so cool....especially on those wandering vacations...

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/07/technology/07gps.html?ref=technology

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I dunno, there are several software tools out there that allow you to integrate a GPS with JPEG photos. Here is one such utility that is free for non-commercial use and $25 for commercial use:
http://www.oziphototool.com

designprof said:

Too bad its not built into the camera. I suppose that day will come.

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Buy a Nikon D200 and you can attach a GPS via a serial port connector. Some Kodak cameras a few years ago had it built in.

designprof said:

Sony is often first with these kind of innovations.

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Not really. And remember a free root kit comes with every CD

designprof said:

I wonder if this device will work with any camera. I trust it does.
The software sync's the time/day stamp with the time/day stamp of
the GPS info through the computer software that comes with the
device.

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I imagine it will.

Michael Meissner said:

designprof said:

Sony is often first with these kind of innovations.

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Michael Meissner said:

Not really. And remember a free root kit comes with every CD

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Yes, but they were the first (and hopefully the last) to do it!

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Years ago when I did a lot of aerial photography I often took a few extra shots of nice looking farms we flew over. It was almost impossible to find the farm later on the ground. A GPS sinking device could have opened a lot more opportunity to make a little extra money.

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This would be great to throw into the car to see where your kids are hanging out, or perhaps your ex as well .. the possibilities are endless.

Have you checked the price on the Sony gizmo? Something like $200 as I recall, and it didn't even seem to have a display! For much less that that you can get a real handheld GPS unit from Garmin or Magellan, that will let you use it with mapping software, autoroute (with appropriate software) etc, and as a previous poster said there is already software out there to tag your photos with the GPS data. No advantage at all to the Sony.
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There is a freeware program you can install on your Pocket Pc for the olympus E series, you press the button Photo and it will register the Coordinates and height of the location you are, using the Olympus photo numbering, I have use it on my Canadian holidays and looked later on Google earth for the places I have been shooting pictures.

The site is http://www.Graf-IT.de and the program is under software and called DOF Calculator or E1 Calculator

It gives also other usefull information for the DOF, flash distance panorama format etc. I found it via http://www.olympus-pro.com Of cours you must have a gps on you PDA for that part to work

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Within limits...

It won't show you the direction the camera is pointed, and in the case of aerials, you may still need to do a little hunting since the offset between the GPS/camera and the subject may be considerable. That said, depending upon the altitude, you might still be within a decent search radius, and the ground shadows should give you an good guess on the direction.

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I've had a battery operated GPS device for a couple years that links to a PDA, desktop, or laptop via Bluetooth. You can use it in the active mode just like a normal GPS or linked to mapping software.

You can pre-set the device to record and save locations at custom time intervals. That data file can be polled remotely and dumped to whatever computer you use, and then with software that's all over the place, used in a variety of applications -- including vehicle tracking, etc. You can put it on some kind of mains power and leave it hot all the time, and poll it from whatever distance the bluetooth will communicate.

Sony is doing a good job of making some people excited about technology that is years old and pretty darn routine. Usually the Sony value-added piece is to make the hardware and software in some kind of proprietary package.

Yep. I have two Nikon DSLRs that take direct GPS input (no bothering with comparing and interpolating picture snap times with the GPS position data after the fact). They're 3 1/2 years old.

ljclark said:

Yep. I have two Nikon DSLRs that take direct GPS input (no
bothering with comparing and interpolating picture snap times with
the GPS position data after the fact). They're 3 1/2 years old.

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Here is a project done by a dotcom millionare to document the entire California Coastline, using a Nikon with GPS input. The owner won a lawsuit when Barbara Striesland sued him because her Malibu mansion was on one of the shots (and the rumor went there may have been an illegal building on the property);
http://www.californiacoastline.org/

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