My story: Long long ago, those of us on this list were discussing our wish lists for the first Pentax DSLR (or maybe it was in anticipation of the 2nd one), I said at the time that I wanted to have GPS location/direction recorded so that I could know where I had been standing and what direction I had been looking. It took awhile, but I finally had my wish, first as the GP-01 add-on gadget, then built-in.
Meanwhile, I had the chance to spend 5-6 days in Northern Italy, generally in the Verona region. We did a couple of drives around Lago del Garda, multiple stops at small fishing villages, brightly painted boats, nice reflections in the water… Back home, I looked at those photos and just kept muttering “where were we? Which village is this one?” Putting together a Blurb photobook, I like to be able to caption images with the name of the location. I bought a Garmin handheld, made sporadic attempts at cross-linking the Garmin data with the time-stamped images from our travels. Then finally! At last! Whenever it was that the GP-01 came along, then I was happy. Even happier when the GPS went built-in and I didn’t need the clunky gadget on top of the camera. I have actually looked at location data only a few times since, but when I wanted it, it was quite reassuring to have it. Two examples. Easter Island. Two days of being taken around for short-to-medium length stops to see the figures, etc. I loved being able weeks later to look at the data to see where on the island we had seen a particular statue. Similar story in the Galapagos. 6-7 days around the archipelago, landings on 5 (?) of the islands. i like having the GPS data to tell me which side of which island given shots were taken. Occasionally I think about going back there again. If I start to make serious plans for return, I will be using the GPS data to identify the particular islands I want to revisit and thus which itinerary to choose. So, for me: is it critical? No. Is it a nice feature that I much appreciate from time to time? Yes. I often carry the Ricoh GRiii which does not have GPS. I occasionally do a snappy on my phone for location recording. Taking pictures of street signs or building name plaques or the like can also help to substitute for GPS. So, again, it is not critical, there are work arounds if a camera doesn’t have it, but I find the GPS feature useful and have the GPS turned on 100% of the time when that option is available to me. stan > On Oct 27, 2020, at 11:10 AM, Igor PDML-StR <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi All! > > In the K3-III thread, people have been disappointed about the lack of the GPS > capability in the new APS flagship. > So, that got me thinking: how do people use GPS in their cameras? > What are the "use cases"? > > I can see that people using astrotracers might need GPS. Also, if you are > taking travel photographs, it might help you to create a "photo journal/map" > of your trip. > But what about outside of those cases? > > K-1 is the first dedicated camera (i.e. outside of the cell phone) that has a > GPS capability, but I have not turned it on yet. > (I was thinking about doing that during the trip to Yellowstone/Grand Teton > parks, but I didn't have good spare batteries on hand, so, I was preserving > the batteries, as one day I got very close to empty.) > > > Also, all my export presets in LR have "remove location" from the photos, - > to avoid some unnecessary accidental exposure with the photos posted to the > web. (I am not a celebrity, and not being stalked, but it is just a general > privacy precaution.) > > Cheers, > > Igor > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
