On 11-02-08 9:37 AM, Eric Featherstone wrote:
On 8 February 2011 14:33, Bruce Walker<[email protected]> wrote:
On 11-02-08 9:27 AM, Collin Brendemuehl wrote:
Be aware, though, that they are battery hogs.
Big time.
(this from personal experience)
Can the WiFi stuff can be disabled (ie powered-off, like in an iPod Touch)
when shooting in the field where all you need is the GPS function? Or is
the GPS h/w itself the battery hog?
There is no GPS hardware. The following is verbatim from their website:
"The geotagging feature uses Wi-Fi Positioning Service (WPS)
technology to tag your photos with geolocation information."
Aha! Only ever so slightly fraudulent then. :-) Thanks for pointing
that out. I thought it might be too good to be true; I couldn't imagine
how they'd pack enough antenna in there to pick up the GPS signals.
Pseudo-GPS is actually not very useful in a home studio where one
probably doesn't move around very far. And I never mark location info on
any of my shots that I take at home anyway as I don't want that info
finding its way onto the net.
Well, I guess we're back at Rob Studdert's original lament of no GPS in
a Pentax body. Sorry, Rob. :-)
-bmw
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