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Am I the only one "put out" about no GPS in R5 or R6?

Started Aug 21, 2020 | Discussions thread
Mika Y.
Mika Y. Senior Member • Posts: 2,130
Re: Am I the only one "put out" about no GPS in R5 or R6?
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KENTGA wrote:

I have 5D4 and one other Canon body that has built-in GPS which I love because of some of these wandering out of the way trips I make. I was thinking about maybe getting one of the R bodies but I don't know how hard it is to synchronize where you make photos to your cell phone and then paste the location to your photo files.

Would appreciate any comments.

Kent

While the omission is a bit of a step back, I've been using a separate small Bluetooth GPS dongle even with a 5D mk IV while traveling. In my experience the dongle is more accurate (I tend to get vertical location below sea level occasionally with 5D mk IV builtin GPS) and the separate tiny dongle can keep logging for a couple of days before needing a recharge, with no battery drain for the camera. Geotagging the photos with the resulting GPX files works pretty nicely with a Perl script I've been using for a long time, starting from the time I used 40D.

Of course, the built-in GPS has the advantage of always being there, if your phone or a separate GPS logger runs out of battery, so in that sense the omission on R5 is a downgrade.

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