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New Sony GPS Camera Accessory
Hi All,
Sony has announced a new GPS unit for its digital cameras and camcorders to record the position of every shot. Details are at: http://www.dimagemaker.com/article.php?articleID=673 Cheers, Wayne -- Wayne J. Cosshall Publisher, The Digital ImageMaker, http://www.dimagemaker.com/ Blog http://www.digitalimagemakerworld.com/ |
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New Sony GPS Camera Accessory
"Wayne J. Cosshall" wrote in message ... Hi All, Sony has announced a new GPS unit for its digital cameras and camcorders to record the position of every shot. Details are at: http://www.dimagemaker.com/article.php?articleID=673 Welcome to 4 months ago. |
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New Sony GPS Camera Accessory
Wayne J. Cosshall wrote: Sony has announced a new GPS unit for its digital cameras and camcorders to record the position of every shot. Details are at: It sounds like other software could use the output of this device so other cameras could be supported. Perhaps something like Picasa will support it? Anyone heard of any leanings in that direction? |
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New Sony GPS Camera Accessory
Wayne J. Cosshall wrote:
Hi All, Sony has announced a new GPS unit for its digital cameras and camcorders to record the position of every shot. Details are at: http://www.dimagemaker.com/article.php?articleID=673 Cheers, Wayne Sounds like software could easily be written to match the time and date stamps with any tracklog from any GPS unit. Not need to buy Sony's doubtless pricey solution. |
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New Sony GPS Camera Accessory
Ron Hunter wrote: Wayne J. Cosshall wrote: Hi All, Sony has announced a new GPS unit for its digital cameras and camcorders to record the position of every shot. Details are at: http://www.dimagemaker.com/article.php?articleID=673 Cheers, Wayne Sounds like software could easily be written to match the time and date stamps with any tracklog from any GPS unit. Not need to buy Sony's doubtless pricey solution. As far as I can tell the Sony product has a MSRP of $129 CDN(http://www.sonystyle.ca/commerce/ser...ductId=1003212) and has built in flash memory, gps, software for recording time and gps location, a battery that runs it for 31 hours and a usb connection for downloading to computer. I don't think there are other GPS units at that price (I have one that connects to a laptop that cost less but carrying around a laptop and having to recharge every few hours seems like a less than optimum solution). |
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New Sony GPS Camera Accessory
"Brian Sullivan"
It sounds like other software could use the output of this device so other cameras could be supported. Perhaps something like Picasa will support it? Anyone heard of any leanings in that direction? Actually, I believe you don't need their hardware. I develop GPS based applications, and thinking about it, if you have a tracklog recorded in a given format (NMEA is common to most, if not all, GPS devices), it shouldn't be difficult to write an application that goes through a folder where your pictures are stored and match the date picture was taken from the EXIF, and get the coordinate from the tracklog file at that time, and write back to the EXIF. I would create such a software easily, but I doubt that nobody thought about it yet. Cheers Padu |
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New Sony GPS Camera Accessory
Brian Sullivan wrote:
Wayne J. Cosshall wrote: Sony has announced a new GPS unit for its digital cameras and camcorders to record the position of every shot. Details are at: It sounds like other software could use the output of this device so other cameras could be supported. Perhaps something like Picasa will support it? Anyone heard of any leanings in that direction? I think there is plenty of reoom in the exif/meta file.... am I right in thinking I saw a gps section in PS filebrowser? kosh |
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New Sony GPS Camera Accessory
Padu wrote:
"Brian Sullivan" It sounds like other software could use the output of this device so other cameras could be supported. Perhaps something like Picasa will support it? Anyone heard of any leanings in that direction? Actually, I believe you don't need their hardware. I develop GPS based applications, and thinking about it, if you have a tracklog recorded in a given format (NMEA is common to most, if not all, GPS devices), it shouldn't be difficult to write an application that goes through a folder where your pictures are stored and match the date picture was taken from the EXIF, and get the coordinate from the tracklog file at that time, and write back to the EXIF. I would create such a software easily, but I doubt that nobody thought about it yet. Cheers Padu well someone thought it was good enough to make a product!!!! Perhaps there is something to it, though I can't imagine a LARGE numbr of people having a requirement like this.. real estate military surveyors reporters who have a large number of images and travel lots ???? hmmmm heres an idea.... if you could photograph say... a city from multiple anges with full GPS data including elevation..... I would think some clever software could give you amazing 3d photogrpahic renderings. come to think of it, one of my customers used their camera to record every inch of Melb. GP to make photo realistic game textures..... GPS data would probably be pretty usefull there too! just think aloud.... well in text! kosh |
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New Sony GPS Camera Accessory
"Bobby" wrote in message u... Sony has announced a new GPS unit for its digital cameras and camcorders to record the position of every shot. Details are at: http://www.dimagemaker.com/article.php?articleID=673 Welcome to 4 months ago. Yes, has even been on TV, "beyond tomorrow" or whatever the show is called. MrT. |
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New Sony GPS Camera Accessory
kosh wrote:
Padu wrote: "Brian Sullivan" It sounds like other software could use the output of this device so other cameras could be supported. Perhaps something like Picasa will support it? Anyone heard of any leanings in that direction? Actually, I believe you don't need their hardware. I develop GPS based applications, and thinking about it, if you have a tracklog recorded in a given format (NMEA is common to most, if not all, GPS devices), it shouldn't be difficult to write an application that goes through a folder where your pictures are stored and match the date picture was taken from the EXIF, and get the coordinate from the tracklog file at that time, and write back to the EXIF. I would create such a software easily, but I doubt that nobody thought about it yet. Cheers Padu well someone thought it was good enough to make a product!!!! Perhaps there is something to it, though I can't imagine a LARGE numbr of people having a requirement like this.. real estate military surveyors reporters who have a large number of images and travel lots ???? Apparently it links with Google-Earth, so you can go to a spot, and then look at the photos you took there. Not a very practical purpose, but I'm sure if you look at who a lot of Sony's customers are (cashed up 20-somethings who like gadgets, and will buy anything so long as it says S O N Y), that there will be quite a few who would go for such gizmos. |
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