On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 07:56:21AM -0700, Tim Bray wrote: > The whole thing seems like it's addressing a very limited market; how > many people here at PDML have any interest in a GPS on their camera?
I'm mildly interested, but probably not $250 interested at present. I'm more interested in it as an accurate time-stamp, actually. But that only works if you've got one on each camera body, which means I'd need to be $500 intersted (plus buying two compatible bodies). > Also, I'd be suspicious how well it works. Good GPS functionality on > something that's normally switched off is a hard problem. It's a > little easier for phones because they can get an initial rough fix via > the cell network and other clues. But zeroing in starting from zero > using only GPS signal is not, unless things have changed recently, a > particularly well-solved problem. -Tim Isn't that what hiker's GPS units do? Or at least the early Garmin (and other manufacturers) in-car systems? -- 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.
