Hi Subash, Subash wrote:
> during my recent ride in the himalayas i had taken a garmin gps with me > (the vista hcx) and almost every day's ride was saved as tracks. had > taken eight eneloop batteries to power the device (had also fixed > a DC 12V cigarette lighter socket to the motorcycle battery to charge > the eneloops through a DC charger). managed to keep the device powered > through the 21 days of the ride... I also used an eTrex Vista HCx on my trip to Bulgaria back in February. I did the same thing you did, leaving it running and recording my track all of the time I was out and about. I used Lithium AA batteries and got about 50 hours of use per pair of batteries with essentially zero backlight usage, and not one heck of a lot of looking at the screen at all. I learned a valuable lesson when I got home and tried to sync the photos with the tracks: don't change anything about your clock setup on either device while you're doing this. One night, I was reviewing my shots for the day, and realized that the K10D thought it was still in Atlanta, time-zone wise. I changed a setting that I thought would only change the displayed time zone when on the screen without affecting anything else. Unfortunately, it changed the times burned into the photos, so I could only "geolocate" about half of the photos automatically. Before I mangled the time settings, it worked a treat, though. Most of the time my eTrex Vista was getting about 6-10m of accuracy, since we were in a city in hilly terrain. Out in the suburbs it was typically running at about 3m accuracy. It was really quite interesting to see my own shots' positions located on the Google Earth imagery. The GPS was really handy when exploring the city, too. I could always see all the tracks since we arrived, so it was easy to tell where we hadn't been and what we hadn't seen. "Hey, the map is pretty clear of tracks over there, let's go there!". -- Thanks, DougF (KG4LMZ) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
