Hej Jens My 2 Öre (that's as close as my keyboard gets) 1) is pretty clear 2) what is your reason for not sticking with the Columbus (I recall you commented on that unit before but don't remember what you said)? 3) recording on shutter release is probably a good idea if your camera and and GPS system clocks aren't quite in sync - does it record by time or by exporuse number and I wonder if it works for long series shooting too as in what is the lag / latency time / buffer speed? Also, I think I would need my hotshoe for the flash - do you have a sync base with splitter to use both? Generally, how does each of these units deal with a loss of signal? Will it write the last known position or give a warning beep or what will they do? And how is time to first fix of the units you are using? Personally, I use a pda HP iPaq hx4700 with a Holux SlimGPS 236 SirfStar III receiver and TinyStocks Navio to records my tracks. Tracks are written in NMEA file format to a 4 GB CF card so it will go very far. The iPaq sits in an Otterbox wherever I care to put it and gets its signal vie bluetooth from the GPS receiver sits in a smaller Otterbox on the upper part of my body such as in the upper arm pocket of my US army surplus Gore Tex camo jacket, in a sweater hood with the drawstring pulled tight or in the top flap of a backpack. Works great for me as long as I have a AA powered USB charger handy to keep the iPaq going. I also have a Garmin but haven't bothered to try track recording with that yet. Cheers Ecke
2009/11/4 Jens <[email protected]>: > Hello list > Once again on geotagging: > I seem to ownn three different GPS photo units at the moment: > 1) i-GotU (HAMA) i surprisingly easy to use, but it has a limited memory, > which does not allow for longer trips. At Google/a-trip.com all geotagged > images I ever made using i-GotU seem to be visible at the same time, which is > annoying. > 2) Columbus v-900. It very nice and also stores POI's and voice messages.It > has a slot for memory cards, which enables it to log very long journeys. > 3) I just ordered the JOBO Photo GPS, which goes into the flash hot-shoe and > thus only records GPS-data, every time the shutter is released. This makes it > a lot easyer to sync the images with the GPS position data afterwards. It's > supposedly quite nice, but has a habit of falling out of the hot-shoe - so > they say. And the momory is limited to 1000 shots/recorded positions. Not > quite enough for me - for a long shooting day, which may result in 2000 > shots. The Danish Pentax importer recommends this unit for Pentax users > (since they import both brands :-). > > I believe that Nikon and Canon are offering units, that will write GPS data > directly into your image files as you go. I would love such accessories to be > available for Pentax cameras :-). Unfortunately these are rather expensive. A > normal GPS photo tracer - the kind that need to be edited in a computer > before the data can actually go into the image files, will cost perhaps > 100-200 USD. The Nikon GPS unit seems to sell for appr. 1200-1500 USD!!! > > Taiwanese ATP is offering a GPS unit, into which you, after the shooting, can > push the SD card. The unit will then write GPS data into your image files. > This unit unfortunately has a habit of takeing much too much time to find the > sattelites and recieve the data. And theres a risk of error, since the data > will not be checked or edited before going into the images. > > So, what can I do. Are there any obvious choices for Pentax cameras?? > Will Pentax ever accomodate the use of GPS tracking devices, that will write > GPS data in to the image files on the fly?? > Will Samsung - they did announce a K-7 replica featuring GPS facilities, but > this camera has never emerged in the market plaace. > Regards > Jens > -- > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
