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

Started Aug 21, 2020 | Discussions thread
Stig Nygaard
Stig Nygaard Regular Member • Posts: 385
Re: Am I the only one "put out" about no GPS in R5 or R6?
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Joe Reynolds wrote:

Do an initial setup with Camera connect on phone and all you need do thereafter is turn on the camera and open Camera Connect. GPS will be added to all images . Camera screen will flash ”GPS” if not connected. Works great. Less trouble than activating in 6D.

I always carry a couple of extra camera batteries in camera bag, so I'm not worried about battery use on camera. It's much more problematic if draining phone battery.

In my experience the Camera Connect "solution" work like sh*t. I gave it up on both G5XII and EOS 90D (The later which I tried for a short period, but are back to 7DII for several reasons including this).

Not only does Camera Connect requires Bluetooth enabled on both devices, draining battery from both devices. The solution is also surprisingly unstable, unreliable and inaccurate.

When shooting with the G5XII today, I'm back to an external GPS-tracker and syncing geo-coordinates in post-production. It is cumbersome and feels like going 6-8 years back in time to before I purchased my 7DII and a Powershot S100, but it is the best solution there is with those new cameras

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