wlaidlaw Posted May 22, 2015 Share #21 Posted May 22, 2015 Advertisement (gone after registration) Who knows! When I checked it using Preview (on Mac) the gps data fields were full of noughts ie. altitude 0 m LAT 0' 0' 0' N etc etc. Baffling ! Preview is not an appropriate app for checking EXIF data. You should either use LightRoom, Photoshop, Bridge or one of the specific EXIF apps. I am not surprised you see weird data in Preview. It is really designed as a PDF viewer for Mac. Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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algrove Posted May 22, 2015 Share #22 Posted May 22, 2015 You make some good points, but you can turn off the locating features on your smartphone and here in North America fortunately there are not cctv cameras like you have in the UK. I just prefer to try and maintain as much of my privacy as possible, realizing that there are some trade offs for technology I want to use. So I am selective. If I was really worried about it I suppose I wouldn't be on this forum and would be living up in the mountains in a sod cabin. I don't know where you venture in "North America", but IMHO you are being naive to suggest there are no CCTV cameras in North America. I cannot drive very far from home where I see about 10 cameras at intersections and who knows where else I do not see them. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
algrove Posted May 22, 2015 Share #23 Posted May 22, 2015 Since Leica wrecked the GPS on the M240 by changing, during a firmware update, the delete last GPS position to a period of 5 minutes, which was shorter than the time normally required to acquire a GPS lock, I cannot imagine this app being of much use either. I find it staggeringly disappointing, that Leica in spite of a: being made aware of this idiocy over a year ago and b: agreeing that the change had been a mistake, at that time and that they would alter the delete period to either two or three hours in the next firmware update or a specific update, they have still not corrected this fault over a year on. I had a communication passed on to Jesko von Oyenhausen a few weeks ago by Leica Service, pointing out that a correction of this error was very overdue but have not as yet, had the courtesy of either an acknowledgment or a response. This is bad manners apart from bad customer relations. The MF grip is pretty much an expensive and heavy waste of space until this is corrected. I have ordered a Photoequip dumb grip to use in its place, as with my arthritic hands a grip is an essential and I don't want to carry around a heavy and bulky MF grip, which doesn't work. Wilson I remember Wilson that you have had this issue going on for months now. Have you or Leica suggested switching out your MF grip for another? I own 2 of these grips for my M cameras and both work, geotagging properly to EXIF data and when viewing on LR. Sure it takes a few minutes to get the signal icon to show up on the LCD, but it always comes. It seems to take longer every time I move many hundreds of miles from my last used location. Also worked in Europe-France, Italy, Spain and Germany. Remember that Leica also sells the same M grip without MF features. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted May 22, 2015 Share #24 Posted May 22, 2015 Lou, My MF grip works fine when I am in the open but as you say, it seems to get slower and slower (maybe the AA batteries in the satellites are running down ). However my beef is that a lot of my travel work is in cities, where it only rarely picks up a lock and then grrrrr - deletes it after five minutes. In order to get frequent satellite fixes I have to leave the camera switched on all the time rather than the auto-switch off at two minutes, all of which drains the battery. All it needs is a one line update in the firmware, which Leica agreed over a year ago was needed, to change the delete period from the stupid five minutes to two or three hours. I am becoming increasingly frustrated by Leica's failure to implement this and their discourtesy in not responding to or even acknowledging my (so far) very polite reminders, other than of course Andrea, who passed on a message to the appropriate person. I do wish she ran the whole company! I know Leica do a dumb grip but it is still bulky. The Photoequip grip is both cheaper and much neater. Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
algrove Posted May 22, 2015 Share #25 Posted May 22, 2015 I know Leica do a dumb grip but it is still bulky. The Photoequip grip is both cheaper and much neater. Wilson I must check out the Photoequip grip as I do not know it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kilmister Posted May 22, 2015 Share #26 Posted May 22, 2015 FFS, I have the MF handgrip but am I bothered with GPS? No, because I know where I am and where I have been. If I have to rely on GPS for my life then that is a bit sad, isn't it? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
algrove Posted May 22, 2015 Share #27 Posted May 22, 2015 Advertisement (gone after registration) FFS, I have the MF handgrip but am I bothered with GPS? No, because I know where I am and where I have been. If I have to rely on GPS for my life then that is a bit sad, isn't it? True, but I often find myself out in the American SW, in canyons and in totally unknown places where GPS works wonders when I am back home. Plus for the next trip if I want more images of an unknown area I can use the coordinates for a more direct route to the site of interest. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edward Louis Marit Posted May 23, 2015 Share #28 Posted May 23, 2015 I don't know where you venture in "North America", but IMHO you are being naive to suggest there are no CCTV cameras in North America. I cannot drive very far from home where I see about 10 cameras at intersections and who knows where else I do not see them. Yes certainly there are occasional cameras - at intersections for example they photograph your Licence plate if you run a red- but there is not the kind of persistent and wide ranging surveillance here ( Canada)that one finds in the UK . Perhaps the states is getting like the UK? I very rarely travel to the U.S. so I wouldn't know. I do travel to Europe 4 or 5 times a year and CCTV are certainly more prevalent than in Canada. Regardless I believe in giving out information selectively and see no reason why I should enable my phone to track and keep a record of where I've been. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted May 23, 2015 Share #29 Posted May 23, 2015 FFS, I have the MF handgrip but am I bothered with GPS? No, because I know where I am and where I have been. If I have to rely on GPS for my life then that is a bit sad, isn't it? On my travel photography trips (I write articles for airline magazines, which helps to fund the travel) I will often take over 2000 photographs. Now you may be able to remember exactly where you took each photograph maybe years later, when an airline asks you to write an article on a particular location but I can't. Therefore I would find a working GPS locator very useful, so I don't have to make notes on each EXIF. So no it is not sad it is just useful. Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pop Posted May 23, 2015 Share #30 Posted May 23, 2015 ... but this is science fiction for Leica firmware developers. the location info is not sent to the Mac. Blame Apple. This is not the first time here that you find names for Leica's software developers when mentioning software errors and excuses for Microsoft and Apple for the same. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted May 23, 2015 Share #31 Posted May 23, 2015 This is not the first time here that you find names for Leica's software developers when mentioning software errors and excuses for Microsoft and Apple for the same. Philipp, I agree. The Yosemite operating system (OS 10.10) was a disgrace and should never have been released in the state it was. It had more bugs than a Mexican abattoir. I am a fairly long term Mac user (off and on for about 30 years but constantly for the last 14). I remember about 10 years ago, when updates were pretty bullet proof and certainly worked reasonably well when first installed. Yosemite did not work at all when I installed it and I had to wipe my hard disc and start again, after using the Firewire backdoor to the hard disc to get the data off. I could not even use my back up as that was encrypted and Yosemite had scrambled the 1024 bit key. Apple's response: "oh you should always turn hard disc encryption off when doing an OS update." Would have been nice if they had told us that beforehand Leica and their associates have never been good at firmware/software. I would have outsourced it years ago with very tight performance penalties in the contract. A friend who was also doing museum archival work, bought a Leica S1 in the late 1990's. Apparently it only very rarely worked, the SCSI interface had not been properly set up and the software was a joke. He had to cobble together a new operating system for it from I think, VueScan. Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CheshireCat Posted May 23, 2015 Share #32 Posted May 23, 2015 This is not the first time here that you find names for Leica's software developers when mentioning software errors and excuses for Microsoft and Apple for the same. I stand by my opinion on Leica's software quality. And I said "blame Apple !", which is actually the opposite of excusing them. I could post about several aspects I love of the M, Mac OS X, and even Windows; but It is more productive to focus on what is not working fine and should be improved. There are enough "I love my Leica" threads in this forum, and I find them as informative as "Joe loves Mary" messages carved on park benches. But I believe anyone is free to express opinions and feelings, so welcome those love threads as well ! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
algrove Posted May 23, 2015 Share #33 Posted May 23, 2015 I feel this forum should be open to praise as well as criticism of Leica. We have been lead to believe that someone at Leica reads and executes some decisions based on this forum so I for one will keep up praise where due and criticism where also due. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted May 23, 2015 Share #34 Posted May 23, 2015 I feel this forum should be open to praise as well as criticism of Leica. We have been lead to believe that someone at Leica reads and executes some decisions based on this forum so I for one will keep up praise where due and criticism where also due. Lou, I wish they had read my comments on the GPS firmware error and ACTED ON IT, maybe nearer to when I first brought it to their attention, well over a year ago. I am very far from impressed on this. Short of taking a trip to Wetzlar and actually booting the person concerned where it hurts, I cannot see Leica doing anything to correct their admitted error. What with that the mess up of the first repair of my M240, including the failure to check it before returning the camera to me, two new lenses out of three being hopelessly wrong and the M9 fiasco, I cannot give Leica much in the way of praise at present. Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
algrove Posted May 23, 2015 Share #35 Posted May 23, 2015 I just remember going to Solms in 2013 for an entire day mainly to discuss two points-lockups and cable release issue. Both, in so many words, they told me they had never heard of. You must remember we discussed the cable release issue before I went on that fruitless trip. Then lockups became a subject of discussion here and Leica NJ CS quietly told me a bad batch of shutter buttons required replacing and mine was one. Due to my lockups I have had the shutters replaced on way too many M240 until now. So much for CS Solms who could not even correctly repair a dropped APO50 according to Leica CS NJ. In the end it was replaced with a new one. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edward Louis Marit Posted May 23, 2015 Share #36 Posted May 23, 2015 On my travel photography trips (I write articles for airline magazines, which helps to fund the travel) I will often take over 2000 photographs. Now you may be able to remember exactly where you took each photograph maybe years later, when an airline asks you to write an article on a particular location but I can't. Therefore I would find a working GPS locator very useful, so I don't have to make notes on each EXIF. So no it is not sad it is just useful. Wilson Can you point us to some of your recent articles Wilson? I read a lot of airline magazines. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted May 23, 2015 Share #37 Posted May 23, 2015 Can you point us to some of your recent articles Wilson? I read a lot of airline magazines. I am afraid the airlines I deal with, append their own byline to my articles and usually add some items advertising various features or paid attractions for the locations I write about. I have to sign an NDA saying I will not disclose which articles I have written (or as it amounts to, ghosted) but as I get paid more per article for working on this basis, it is no skin off my nose. The airlines I mainly deal with are middle and far eastern, who I got to know many years ago, when I was underwriting aviation insurance in London. I tried also with some African airlines, who I had also known but paying their outstanding accounts, particularly if they reprinted an old article, seemed a wholly alien concept to them. Trying to enforce an outstanding debt in Brazzaville, all via fax, was an interesting, it totally futile process. Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pico Posted May 23, 2015 Share #38 Posted May 23, 2015 A friend who was also doing museum archival work, bought a Leica S1 in the late 1990's. Would that person have the initials D. L. B. ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted May 24, 2015 Share #39 Posted May 24, 2015 Would that person have the initials D. L. B. ? No R K F sadly now the late Robin Fowler. Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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