![]() ![]() The workflow is a little more complicated than I'd like it to be, but until battery technology progresses to the point that this is a non-issue, I prefer to save my limited juice for the act of photography. I then use Early Innovations excellent OSX Photolinker application to tag the photos prior to importing them into Lightroom. Some phones can do this, but I prefer something like the Garmin 60CSx, because it serves so many other functions (like telling me when and where the sun and moon will rise and set). Personally, taking pictures is more important to me than geotagging them, so I want to reserve what battery power I have, first and foremost, for the camera.Ī better solution is using a battery-efficient stand-alone GPS device that records a track log. Second, if you turn off the camera to save your juice, you have to wait after turning it back on while the satellites are located and locked on to. First, the constant GPS send/receive function (pinging the satellites) requires a lot of juice. The problem with an in-camera GPS solution is that it negatively impacts battery life, big time. The newer file transmitter models have the radio built-in. On the off-chance you already own this camera's Wireless File Transmitter (expensive), you can add a cheap USB Bluetooth radio and pair it with your smartphone running a GPS over Bluetooth SPP application (cheap on Android) or a standalone GPS unit that supports Bluetooth SPP. It can geo-encode photographs, though last I checked it only supported doing this from the NMEA 0183 file format (logged raw serial data from GPS device), but you can convert a GPX file from your smartphone using a utility. Canon Map Utility is available by calling the parts department or comes free with ZoomBrowser EX. If you're on Flickr, you can use a webapp like GPSTagr to add Flickr geotagging post-upload. The open source tool, gpicsync, is great, though has somewhat limited OS X support. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 will have this capability built-in. to add the geolocation data from the GPS log file as metadata to the image files (though the workflow can be tedious). On Mac OS X, I use Jeffrey's Geoencoding Plugin for Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3. On iOS, several of the popular running or cycling fitness apps have this ability. On Android, the free Google Maps app comes with a supplementary activity called My Tracks that does this pretty well. If you have a smartphone, there are several good apps for generating a GPS log file similar to those generated using the GP-E2's Log mode. They state that the GP-E2 will be compatible with the 7D but on they also say that half of its functions will NOT be available to 7d users: «†When the EOS 7D is used with the GP-E2 the following restrictions will apply: a) geotagging function will not work for movies while recording b) geotagging features will not work for movies when using the Map Utility c) electronic compass information and automatic time setting is not available d) transmission via the hot shoe is not possible.» I'm not too bothered about the movie functions but the lack of compass information is rather disappointing – especially for a device with such a price tag (US: $390 / EUR: €279 / UK: £299.99 according to )!Īre there any well functioning alternatives to the GP-E2 you guys know of? And perhaps a little less expensive than Canons' ? :-\įrom Canon's press release regarding the new accessories: «Compatible with the EOS-1D X, EOS 7D and new EOS 5D Mark III, the GP-E2 tags photos with longitude, latitude and altitude data as well as the direction in which the shot was taken, adding information to the EXIF file of the image.» Geotagging my photos is an old wish of mine but until now I have not found a convincing solution for Canon/Mac users. ![]()
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