bill Posted January 17, 2010 Share #141 Posted January 17, 2010 Advertisement (gone after registration) Moleskine ® - Legendary notebooks ...no batteries, no chargers, no upgrades, no wi-fi, no SIM, no bluetooth, no firmware, no fixes, no GPS, no calibration, no hassle... ...multifunctional, always on, compact, fits in a pocket or a corner of your bag, there when you need it, interfaces seamlessly with pen or pencil... ...and you can use it during take-off and landing... Regards, Bill Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted January 17, 2010 Posted January 17, 2010 Hi bill, Take a look here How to link a M9 with GPS data. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
arthury Posted January 17, 2010 Share #142 Posted January 17, 2010 Whatever you do, you want to backup your original DNG first before allowing some pieces of "free" plugins to write stuffs into your image meta-data. So far, they seem safe but you never know. Of course, if you don't do your backups, please don't come crying on this forum later, telling us your horror stories when your images are no longer accessible because there were some unusual non-standard-compliant operations applied onto your images. Just a note of warning to all you enterprising people. Here's what I have written some time ago about this topic ... http://artsphlog.blogspot.com/2008/06/gps-for-your-camera.html Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted January 17, 2010 Share #143 Posted January 17, 2010 There is an essential remark in your blog: We really do not know how Nikon encodes their NEF files because it is a proprietary format and they do not have the need to tell you how and when they change and move certain bytes from here to there. But that does not apply to DNG I should think? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
redbaron Posted January 18, 2010 Share #144 Posted January 18, 2010 Moleskine ® - Legendary notebooks ...no batteries, no chargers, no upgrades, no wi-fi, no SIM, no bluetooth, no firmware, no fixes, no GPS, no calibration, no hassle... ...multifunctional, always on, compact, fits in a pocket or a corner of your bag, there when you need it, interfaces seamlessly with pen or pencil... ...and you can use it during take-off and landing... Regards, Bill I'm just about to test a few Moleskine City notebooks. They even have maps and a street directory! And sheets of sticky tracing paper that you can use to write over the maps with! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stunsworth Posted January 18, 2010 Share #145 Posted January 18, 2010 Of course, if you don't do your backups, please don't come crying on this forum later, telling us your horror stories when your images are no longer accessible because there were some unusual non-standard-compliant operations applied onto your images.l There is a tag in the Exif for the GPS location isn't there? I agree that if you are shooting Nikon then all bets may be off since Nikon likes to keep control over what is available and change things as they see fit. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael-IIIf Posted January 18, 2010 Share #146 Posted January 18, 2010 You'll need two pieces of software. There's an iPhone app called Trails - trails - Intuitive GPS tracking on the iPhone - this will run on the iPhone and take GPS snapshots of your location. Steve, do you know if this will work with Data Roaming switched off? I quite fancy it for my excursions in France too but I need to keep Data Roaming off to avoid massive bills. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stunsworth Posted January 18, 2010 Share #147 Posted January 18, 2010 Advertisement (gone after registration) Steve, do you know if this will work with Data Roaming switched off? I quite fancy it for my excursions in France too but I need to keep Data Roaming off to avoid massive bills. I'm pretty sure it will since it uses the built in GPS receiver rather than a phone connection. If you want to see your route on a map while you're in France you'll need to have data roaming switched on so that the map can be downloaded, but the application will still work with the download maps and roaming settings switched off. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybarton Posted January 18, 2010 Share #148 Posted January 18, 2010 I spent £65 data roaming with O2 in Italy and Malta last October, just checking the odd email and banned the odd spammer... It's absolutely ridiculous. The Trails maps will appear once you get back home - I tried this out last night and it worked fine. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stunsworth Posted January 18, 2010 Share #149 Posted January 18, 2010 I spent £65 data roaming with O2 in Italy and Malta last October, just checking the odd email and banned the odd spammer... It's absolutely ridiculous I couldn't agree more, I always have data roaming switched off and try to find open wi-fi connections - more and more cafes seem to offer that as part of their service. Surely the telecom companies would get more revenue overall by lowering the costs? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael-IIIf Posted January 18, 2010 Share #150 Posted January 18, 2010 Thanks for the replies chaps. £65 - yep, Data Roaming is a sore subject, and yes they would make more money if they lowered the prices. Except they know that finding free wifi spots is becoming more and more difficult, the opposite to what we were promised at the start of the wifi revolution. They have us by the short and curlies. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlmuck Posted January 18, 2010 Share #151 Posted January 18, 2010 one could just use an Eye-Fi Geo card. it's not the fastest card but it does handle the geocoding and will upload for you as well if you're in range of a recognized hotspot. wifi range isn't great and it is slow and will only upload jpgs but it does geocode all images on capture. c. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill Posted January 18, 2010 Share #152 Posted January 18, 2010 one could just use an Eye-Fi Geo card. it's not the fastest card but it does handle the geocoding and will upload for you as well if you're in range of a recognized hotspot. wifi range isn't great and it is slow and will only upload jpgs but it does geocode all images on capture. c. You're not in sales, are you...? Regards, Bill Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted January 19, 2010 Share #153 Posted January 19, 2010 one could just use an Eye-Fi Geo card. it's not the fastest card but it does handle the geocoding and will upload for you as well if you're in range of a recognized hotspot. wifi range isn't great and it is slow and will only upload jpgs but it does geocode all images on capture. c. Not many hotspots in the African bush, which is the only place I would consider using it:( Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlmuck Posted January 19, 2010 Share #154 Posted January 19, 2010 Bill, not for the EyeFi! jaapv, the Geocoding works without the wifi. but in the bush you could use the wifi capability to send images to a computer in a Rover or at a camp (nearby). personally I'm in the moleskine camp for geolocating my photos. I've been trying out the EyeFi for deployment in some cameras I hand out to high school students to document theater rehearsals (behind the scenes kinds of shots). c. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bo_Lorentzen Posted January 19, 2010 Share #155 Posted January 19, 2010 I have not managed to get a EyeFi card to geocode or work reliably in a M camera, works fine in cameras with composite bodies btw. . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stunsworth Posted January 19, 2010 Share #156 Posted January 19, 2010 Not many hotspots in the African bush, which is the only place I would consider using it:( The geotagging on the card relies on several known wifi hotspots being available and it triangulates the location from those, this is always going to be less accurate than GPS, and of course if there are no hotspots (or only one) it won't work at all. Details here... What is Geotagging? | Eye-Fi Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tulpenwahn Posted February 17, 2010 Share #157 Posted February 17, 2010 Jaap, I have one of the Jobo PhotoGPS thingies. It works well in daylight, it use the hotshooe for the flash sync, the shoe triggers regardless of chosen shutterspeed. (at least on my camera it does). When it works it work well. I was really excited when I got it at PMA last year, the sony sticks were retired for a while even. however, the top gps unit sit on a little cube which have the flash connector. the gps unit have shitty metal connectors which is notoriously corroding and having contact problems, meaning this thing consistently do not fire when expected to. also there is no lock, and it is pretty loose in the hot shoe resulting in it being pushed back and disconnecting, sometimes its even been pushed off the camera. The genius of this particular device is that it do not actually calculate the cordinates on location, instead it turns on when triggered and captures a few seconds of gps signal, when you download to your laptop, the software will then do the calculation, this mean that the unit can work for about 1000+ shots with the internal battery. The software matches the "rhythm" of your shots with the rhythm of the gps waypoints, so it will figure the right time and location even if your camera is set to the wrong time. this is very clever but the system completely falls apart when more than a few misfires happens, unfortunately this thing misfires better than anything. If Jobo wanted it, they could make this a much better product, gold plate the contacts and put a lock on the hot-shooe connector. also make it lean a little more forward. and I would be OK with a even bigger battery. Soo, having gone through two of these, I am back to putting a sony thingie in the side pocket of my camera bag. . The idea of this Jobo GPS thing is great. I own one. But it does not fit into the M9 hotshoe. Fortunately, I would say, because it is a cheap-looking plastic thing that would look a little bit ridiculous on a M9. Or, let's put it the other way round: the M9 would look ridiculous with the Jobo Geotagger attached to it. BTW: when using it on another camera (Fuji Finepix s100fs) it was irritating the exposure meter. The camera "thought" a flashlight would be in function. Thus the Jobo thing could only be used in bright daylight. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacSpikes Posted March 2, 2010 Share #158 Posted March 2, 2010 Thanks to this thread I tried something today and it worked great! I bought a Sony GPS-CS1 that works on one AA battery. It keeps track of GPS coordinates when shooting. I loaded the images from my M9 into a folder according to my usual workflow. I then used Aperture 3 from Apple to import these images. In Aperture's "Places" there is a "GPS" button that shows "import GPS Track". I connected the Sony with a USB cable and could easily import the small txt file from the Sony GPS. The next step was easy too. On the map you will see a purple GPS track of the path you travelled. Now choose an image from the set you want to match with the track. Drag it from the browser strip towards the track. You will notice that Aperture shows the time difference between the image taken and the position on your track. When I dropped the image onto the track with 0 min. time difference I was aked if I wanted to match the other images as well. Easy as that. No plugins, software etc needed, just the Sony and Aperture 3. I must say I am a great fan of Capture One 5, but Aperture 3 makes life real easy! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coach Posted March 2, 2010 Share #159 Posted March 2, 2010 Hi guys, I've seen that GPS recorder from Jobo, it seems to work with any kind of camera, follow the link Jobo photo GPS regards gerard Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coach Posted March 2, 2010 Share #160 Posted March 2, 2010 Ooops ! sorry this accessory was previously documented Gerard Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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