On Apr 18, 2012, at 12:14 PM, steve harley wrote: > on 2012-04-18 11:15 John Celio wrote >> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 5:47 AM,<[email protected]> wrote: >>> A good alternative is to use smartphone GPS tracking capabilities to tag >>> photo later at home. >> >> The downside, of course, is that you have to own a smartphone, which I >> do not. This device is an awful lot cheaper and doesn't charge overage >> fees. ;) > > i think the O-GPS1 is great for those that need it; you don't have to > remember to take a phone snappy, and you get some unique features like > star-tracking; it might even work better in some situations (though i get > good GPS locks with my phone in the backcountry) > > but the second sentence above does not compute unless you were to buy a phone > only to use its GPS to tag photos taken with a Pentax camera; while i've > never paid an overage fee in three years using an iPhone (and i'm on a > reduced data plan), it's worth noting that the location services that tag a > photo do not use cellular data at all
If your goal is simply to geotag locations, you should be able to pick up a used smartphone, something like my first generation droid, very cheaply, if not for free. What I used to do is use the camera in my droid specifically for that purpose. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/collections/72157622699921737/ There is the theory that any pictures that I actually want to geotag that I took with the pentax, I'll be able to go back and resolve them with the droid photos. That seems to work about as well as the theory that all of these pictures that I bracketed my exposure on, I'll go back and apply HDR software on to bring out important details in the highlights and shadows. What I find ultimately frustrating is when I'm looking through the photos I took with my droid to geotag and realize that one would be a dynamite photo, if the image quality wasn't pure shite. I bought the O-GPS1 specifically for the astrotracer functionality, however, I find it quite handy for when I want to geotag something. One way that I think it could prove very handy is in giving directions to someplace. You can take photos of specific landmarks, link to the photos in the directions, and people would also be able to look on a map based on the photo. I took this set because I thought the organizers of a weekly dance might find them handy for people looking for the event the first time: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157629175036835/ -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- 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.
