On 2 June 2011 09:59, Bruce Walker <bruce.wal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, well. They were clearly reading our little GPS thread ...
>
> "Mounted on the hot shoe of select PENTAX digital SLR cameras,* the O-GPS1
> unit records latitude, longitude, altitude, and universal time coordinated
> (UTC) of shooting locations with captured images. Image files with this GPS
> data may be used to track shooting locations and review location data on a
> personal computing device."
>
>  http://goo.gl/qH4o6
>
> They must have hacked the hotshoe interface to handle serial I/O from the
> GPS.  I suppose the hotshoe already talks to the flash serially, so they
> have added the GPS as a serial device distinct from a flash. Clever! I don't
> recall any of us coming up with that solution.
>
> A mere $249 US.

Hmm, thanks, something I would like even at that price but really does
it have to be quite this big?

http://www.pentaximaging.com/images/temp/63442541041020616325727gpsmodule_genericdslr.jpg


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