GPS system for my camera

[LensBaby]

I saw a really cool thing that Sony has, and I was wondering did the other camera companies already have it..its a GPS unit that you can put on the camera backpack, or on your arm, and it records the date, time, and where the photo was taken at. It also prints it out to a map.

[dkippen]

I heard about this on a Canon board at Yahoo. I think in this case, it was some type of attachment to the camera itself. I'll do some more checking to see what I can find out.

[dkippen]

Sue -

Here is some of what I found:

Without having any personal experience with a minimalist phototagging-only GPS device, from the manufacturer specs, I'd shy away from the Sony and gravitate more towards one of the Gisteq PhotoTrackr models due to apparently better
price, features, and compatibility:

http://www.gisteq.com/resources/Comparison_Table.pdf

http://www.gisteq.com/PhotoTrackrProducts.php

Other comments included one that some units were just as nice and cheaper than Sony.

[LensBaby]

Thanks Debbie. I am looking at that one right now. For one, I always either have to write down some of my information on my photos, or try to remember, because we take the kids on a lot of little vacations, and we make a little scrapbook type of thing up of where we went and also the photos that we took. This would be really nice, because it shows you on a map, with pop up photos of where you want, at what date and time, and also the photo taken.

[dkippen]

I should maybe consider that for our trip next month.

[jerryph]

They have them for the Nikons as well. Sincerely, though its a nice techie touch and I was looking at the products seriously for a short while, I think that I'd rather stick the several hundred dollars into a lens or more lighting. I know where I take my pics, and don't feel the urge to have a lat. long. reading that is accurate within 3 meters included in all my pics. :)

If you want to do it a cheaper way, there is a $300 GPS that records your sessions and then there is a software that looks at the date/time stamp of your pics and shoves the GPS info into the pic's EXIF data wihtout you needing to attach a GPS to your camera. If anything, thats the way I would go.

[LensBaby]

Send the info over. We travel with the kids all through the year, and we like to remember where our photos came from. Hey we spend enough money on stupid souvenirs, that we would rather have that instead. I will still get my other stuff first.

[dkippen]

Well in that case, Jerry can I borrow first then pass on to Sue?

[jerryph]

Know what Sue, thats actually a great argument to justify the concept!

[LensBaby]

I will buy all of my other stuff of course, but our next vacation, I might take some money and get this. (less junk to throw out) haha When we got back from Vegas I had a large trash bag needless to say. (I hate carnival stuffed animals and such and they were tired of them after a week anyway)