On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 22:35:40 -0600 William Robb wrote: > >>Before I spend a lot of time shopping for one: >>A) Has anyone on the list been recently shopping for one? Any strong >>recommendations on places to check out, or to avoid? >> >I just bought one. I don't shop around, I just go into my local pusher, tell >him what the item is worth and pay what he rings it up at.
That is what I did at the end of june, when the US price was announced, I told my local shop the limit would be that same amount, in Euro's :-) They ordered and got it in at that price two weeks later ... >>B) Has anyone that has one run into critical problems that made them decide >>that it wasn't really worth the money after all? Pure for the GPS function it is a tad expensive, OTOH compared to ANY other GPS unit it has the best camera/software integration. You just need to turn it on, and occassionaly check if it (still) has a fix. The rest is automatic, op to the point that clicking the coordinates from Lightroom brings up a Google Map, usually spot on. >It's been good so far. It doesn't work really well inside some buildings. Sofar I have not got it to work inside any building, but most of the ones I tried are 100% brick and concrete (with embedded metal of course). Outside, on a 'cold' start it takes a few minutes to get the first fix, later on when it has switched to low-power, it is just a few seconds after waking up the camera to get it back. >If there is too much metal, it gets lost. >It's eerie though, the first time you plug coordinates into Google Earth and >it points at exactly where you were standing. Indeed, allthough I would like some more 'GPS' awareness in Lightroom, like the direction and altitude. But that is not an O-GPS1 shortcoming ... There are some Lightroom plugins that greatly enhance this functionality, but I still need to install and experiment with that. I am taking it on a hiking trip to Crete in a few weeks, so I can do some proper 'in the field' testing. I will be traveling light, so only the K5 with GPS, the 18-135 and the 100mm macro go along. I have not used the Astro-function sofar, way too much stray light in the middle of the city where I live. Perhaps I will try that in Cretae as well (Matala beach). Regards, JvW BTW: If you have one of these tiny zipper bags that come with some Sandisk SD cards, it is a perfect fit for the O-GPS1 when not in use :-) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jan van Wijk; http://www.dfsee.com/gallery -- 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.
