Posted by Grace Blair on January 13, 2009 at 11:03 PM
What is the current status of GPA units and hooking up to camera to record exact locations? I have Canon 1DsMII and an e-trex. What kind of a cable do I need for connection? Anyone doing this kind of metadata marking? Difficulties, best equipment?
TIA
Grace
Posted by Larry Fischer on January 14, 2009 at 9:15 AM
I don't know about Canon.
My Nikon D300 has the capabilities for GPS.
It does take a special connection cable.
I believe Garmin was listed as the type GPS to use.
The data is listed in the instruction manual for the Nikon.
Have you checked your Canon instructin manual??
Larry
Grace, I don't know anything about connecting a GPS to a camera and accomplish automatic geotagging, but I have successfully geotagged photos from my Nikon D40x with GPS data recorded on my Garmin Vista HCx. I learned how to do this at this Web Site describing geotagging of photos on a Mac. Most of the info would apply to a PC, just the software would be different.
Once you set up your GPS to create track logs and synchronize the GPS and Camera clocks and time zones, it is pretty simple to geotag your image files after you download them to your computer. During shooting, you just have to make sure your GPS is on and tracking. It is not connected to your camera.
I don't think there is any non-GPS tracking camera that can connect to a GPS and geotag the image files at the time of shooting.
Good luck in your Geotagging pursuits.
HERE is a sample of my geotagging work. When you pull up the web page, click on "View Map" below the picture to see what geotagging can do for you.
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Grace
My Nikon D300 has the capabilities for GPS.
It does take a special connection cable.
I believe Garmin was listed as the type GPS to use.
The data is listed in the instruction manual for the Nikon.
Have you checked your Canon instructin manual??
Larry
There was an exchange on this subject at http://photography-on-the.net/forum/.
Two things that I expect to be automatic in the future on cameras are 1) HDR and 2) GPS location.
Once you set up your GPS to create track logs and synchronize the GPS and Camera clocks and time zones, it is pretty simple to geotag your image files after you download them to your computer. During shooting, you just have to make sure your GPS is on and tracking. It is not connected to your camera.
I don't think there is any non-GPS tracking camera that can connect to a GPS and geotag the image files at the time of shooting.
Good luck in your Geotagging pursuits.
HERE is a sample of my geotagging work. When you pull up the web page, click on "View Map" below the picture to see what geotagging can do for you.