pop Posted November 26, 2014 Share #21 Posted November 26, 2014 Advertisement (gone after registration) Well unless I'm mistaken the M240 needs the add-on multifunction grip to do GPS, right? So in effect it is an external GPS. Yes, I see it. In the post-apocalyptic world of the future, things like "downtown Omaha" will be meaningless and GPS coordinates will be the only way for our future generations to know where we took a photo. Of course that's assuming the HD containing the pictures survives the apocalypse The grip of the M may be an external GPS, but it's not a dedicated one and it's not a very useful one, either. With the ongoing urbanisation of many parts of the world, quite a few formerly well-known area designations are now forgotten and take at times an appreciable amount of research to locate, and some of those names had been in use just a few decades ago. Noting the coordinates normally used by geographers along with a site name on a hard copy of a shot sounds not very difficult to me. You do have access to a typewriter, I trust? No one is forcing you to use GPS or any other technologies you personally don't want to use, of course. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted November 26, 2014 Posted November 26, 2014 Hi pop, Take a look here Firmware update for M240 . I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
jmahto Posted November 26, 2014 Share #22 Posted November 26, 2014 The grip of the M may be an external GPS, but it's not a dedicated one and it's not a very useful one, either. Correct. Unless GPS is always on, it takes time for it to hunt for the signal and zero on the location. Even my dedicated Delorme GPS some times takes up to a minute (and longer in special cases). If your camera is not always on then you will have incorrect location printed in EXIF. A cell phone does a better job since it is always on and in urban setting, its using cell signal for location as well. This is why I prefer geo tagging my photos as PP activity in LR. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted November 26, 2014 Share #23 Posted November 26, 2014 I'm still a fan of the GPS4CAM app, which is surprisingly effective and dirt cheap. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pop Posted November 26, 2014 Share #24 Posted November 26, 2014 I'm still a fan of the GPS4CAM app, which is surprisingly effective and dirt cheap. So am I; also, it also takes care of any differences in the TOD clocks between different devices. In the meantime, however, I have detected quite a few Mac apps which deal quite well with ordinary GPX tracks out of cell phones or real GPS devices. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmahto Posted November 26, 2014 Share #25 Posted November 26, 2014 LR deals with any gps track very well. I have used old gps tracks with the pics taken during that time to geo tag in LR. At that time (4 years ago) I didn't even know I could use the tracks for geo tagging !! Most devices export tracks in .gpx format. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bocaburger Posted November 26, 2014 Share #26 Posted November 26, 2014 No one is forcing you to use GPS or any other technologies you personally don't want to use, of course. I just was curious as to what reason a hobbyist photographer would have for considering geotagging an essential feature. I've heard a lot of explanations, and am now sorting through them trying to find one that qualifies as a reason And yes, Ik what you mean about urbanization and name changes. Hate that I have to keep remembering it's St. Petersburg now, not Leningrad:p Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pop Posted November 26, 2014 Share #27 Posted November 26, 2014 Advertisement (gone after registration) Well then, how's this one: my brother takes a keen interest in plants and their geographical distribution. He can tell me for hours on end about finding a mauve colored variety of a plant normally having pink flowers growing on the "wrong" side of a minor hill or about finding only yellow ones on the side of a mountain where only yellow ones are to be expected. Geotagging his photographs of such unusual finds certainly would make his records more consistent and reliable. They could, anyway, had he yet discovered digital photography. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted November 27, 2014 Share #28 Posted November 27, 2014 I think you are all rather missing the point. Leica has sold me and many others, an expensive device, which we decided we would like to have, right or wrong. They have then effectively disabled the device by virtue of a firmware update error. They are in agreement that they made this error and further agreed to put it right ASAP. This they have failed to do, when they had the perfect opportunity with the 2.0.1.7 FW update. Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pop Posted November 27, 2014 Share #29 Posted November 27, 2014 ....when they had the perfect opportunity with the 2.0.1.7 FW update. ... That particular update was done synchronously with the corresponding updates for the M9, M8 and - I presume - MM series of cameras, and it had to be done reliably and as closely as possible to the availability of the new lenses. I think it consistent with best practice not to combine this rather trivial change with changes requiring extensive testing and so on. I agree, however, that they should have fixed the GPS in the handgrip by now. But then, it seems that the GPS functionality is nothing to write home about, even when restored to its former function. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shashinka Posted December 22, 2014 Share #30 Posted December 22, 2014 Not sure if its related to the 2.0.1.7 update, but I updated a week or two ago, and now I have a camera that won't work without locking/freezing with red LED on. Even a battery removal won't recover it back to a working camera. Could be a coincidence and the camera was due to fail anyway, but struggling to find a way to get it working. Tried reinstalling the firware, but I recon the camera ignores the update as it is already at the same version. Also tried to go back to 2.0.1.5, but again the camera ignores. Just before Xmas as well, thanks Leica. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CheshireCat Posted December 22, 2014 Share #31 Posted December 22, 2014 Even a battery removal won't recover it back to a working camera. So it froze one time and now it is bricked ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted December 22, 2014 Share #32 Posted December 22, 2014 Not sure if its related to the 2.0.1.7 update, but I updated a week or two ago, and now I have a camera that won't work without locking/freezing with red LED on. Even a battery removal won't recover it back to a working camera. Could be a coincidence and the camera was due to fail anyway, but struggling to find a way to get it working. Tried reinstalling the firware, but I recon the camera ignores the update as it is already at the same version. Also tried to go back to 2.0.1.5, but again the camera ignores. Just before Xmas as well, thanks Leica. Take the battery out, leave it switched on and let the internal battery run down. Sadly this takes rather longer with the M240 than it does with an M8 or 9, maybe a week or so. When you reinsert a fully charged battery, it forces the camera to re-initialse. This MIGHT do the trick but I suspect a new year holiday in Wetzlar is looming. I can let you have earlier versions of the M240 firmware if it is of any use. I have pretty much all the versions of M8, M9 and M240 firmware update files stored. Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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