Hi John, On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 12:09:38 -0700 John Celio wrote: > >I'm thinking about getting Pentax's GPS unit for my upcoming trip, but >I'm wondering how unwieldy it is on the K-5. Specifically, how much >weight it adds
Hardly noticable, certainly when a larger lens is mounted. I use it most often with either the DA 18-135mm or the Sigma 50-500mm and with those the weight of the GPS is no issue at all :-) >and how big it is in relation to the camera itself. I'm >trying to pack light, but it'd sure be nice to not have to keep a >written record of my shooting locations all the time. Understand, I have the same issue. it DOES add some height to the camera and that makes it a bit harder to pack it well in many camara bags, even more because I don't want to stress the mechanical connection through the hotshoe too much. (allthough that does have a tightening clamp mechanism) But that said, when I go outside, I nearly always mount the GPS and it does not bother me at all while hiking. >Also, does it communicate its data through the hotshoe, or does it >need some sort of wired connection (like, via the USB port on the >camera)? Hotshoe only, and in that sense it is a brilliant design, better than most. Depending on what you use for processing, there is virtually no extra work involved since GPS location and direction (when calibrated) is recorde automatically with each shot. I upgraded to LR-4 a few weeks back, just because of the GPS integration is a seperate (Google maps based) module, that shows a satelite image map with your photo(groups) whereever you took them. It also has integrated GPS based searching and anhancing of GPS data with textual location and such. I really like it for travel and vacation stuff. The one minor nit I have is the power, it uses a small AAA type cell that lasts less than a full (long) day when hiking, so take several with you :-) Regards, JvW ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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.
