Hi Jens, On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 11:34:27 +0200 Jens wrote: > >Finally Pentax is offering a GPS Unit for the Flash Hot shoe. >The Pentax O-GPS1.
Yes, I have one on order ... (even if price/availability is unknown here in the Netherlands :-) >It should be available this month. > >According to reiews it's quite advanced - with a compas (records the shooting >direction) and more. Indeed, and some navigation and astro-tracking features too. >As a matter of fact I allready own three third party units, among which is a >nice Columbus (which has a memory card for long trips) and a JOBO, a hot-shoe >unit, that will track only when the shutter is fired - that is provided that the shutter speed is not faster than flash sync speed. In order to deal with this flaw it has a tracking button which I can press from time to time, whenever I'm using faster shutter speeds. Not bad - but it still requires some annoying syncronizing in the computer after the shooting. This is time consuming and a really a PITA having to do this. Yes, I never started on that, because of the time involved ... >What I really whish for is a unit that will write the GPS data directly into >the Meta Data of my image files ON THE FLY. No after syncronising at the >computer. Something like the unit Nikon is offering for thier DSLR's. I'd gladly pay a freat deal of money for a unit like this for my K-5!!! > >I wonder if the new Pentax GPS Unit can do this. Otherwise I'd probably not be >interested in buying one. Do you guys know how the Pentaxit works? Yes, it does record the location and direction info into JPG as well as RAW images. This GPS anouncement actually was the final push to make me get a K5 (had a K10D and K7). Another was that my son's ISTDS got stolen a few weeks back, so I will hand down the K10D and use the K7 as a backup to the K5 from now on. BTW: The K5 low light capabilities are amazing compared to the K10D/K7. 3200 ISO captures are quite usable! Regards, JvW ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jan van Wijk; http://www.dfsee.com/gallery -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
