GPS coordinates

[hirohhhh]

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Hi,

I guess this was already discussed before, but I couldn't find any appropriate thread to ask this: has anyone yet figured out why SL does not record GPS coordinates for some photos, while for some, in the same session does. For example I have a studio, or location shooting, and make 200 photos, and only 30-40% of them has location data.

[thighslapper]

Outdoors I get 100% GPS recorded accurately.

Presumably indoors ....or in built up areas,  depending on the situation, the GPS reception is not 100% and you will drop info on some images. There are many things that can interfere with GPS reception so unless you can be more specific about the circumstances it is hard to comment.

ps. I tend to leave the SL switched on and let it go into standby, which I suspect goes some way to keeping a good GPS signal connection.... and to be honest I can't recall the last time I noticed an image without GPS data. 

Edited December 2, 2018 by thighslapper

[hirohhhh]

Lucky you, as I said 30-40% of my images are without location. No matter if they're taken inside our outside, Europe, USA, Australia.... it's just a random behaviour. One shoot will have the coordinates and the next three taken at the same place in the range of meters and minutes, at the open blue sky, won't. Should I send my Leica to Wetzlar? I mean if there's no solution for this, as this is pretty important thing for organization to me.

[Chuck Albertson]

It's like that with any GPS receiver, it depends on the visibility of a certain number of GPS satellites, and even if they are visible it can take a moment or two to lock on. Also, the GPS satellites are in orbit, so if one or more move on, the receiver has to acquire some new ones. I was shooting in Times Square this weekend, and for the most part anything I shot on 7th Avenue/Broadway recorded the GPS coordinates, but when I moved into some of the side streets (which are effectively slot canyons), the coordinates disappeared.