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marcbergeron1

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Anybody ever use the GPS ...GP-1A if so please your comment.

Thx a million

Marc



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Bruce Wunderlich

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I have never used one, but have often wondered about their uses to our photos.

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I have never used one, but I have a GPS built into my Nikon P6000 and it is quite good, although drains the battery a bit. I purchased that over 5 years ago, so think they will have improved by now.

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Never used nor do I see myself using it. So it's one of those useless features to me. Kind of wonder if they took it out if that would decrease the camera costs.



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I bought one more than a year ago. As I am travelling a bit I wanted to have my photos geotagged (even so they are in named projectfolders, I was expecting to have a more precise geotagging on specific buildings and locations. Also it was to have the tagging when 'smart' folders are defined in my database. As it turned out, the GPS is very slow (on a normal day, not to cloudy), sucks the battery life, and tries to reposition frequently yet slow (move 10 meters away from where it was and wait for another 10-20s for the GPS to have relocated. So, even when having the GPS on I have at the end of the day only about 1/3 of my shoots geotagged. So, while I am still using it, it is defintely not my best buy, especially as it was at the priceof a smaller camera. Wondering if they improved the GPS mode that is now buildin in some of the more recent models. So, while I am still convinced that geotagging is very interesting, the techinal implementation that was done with these GPS modules was very poor.

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I can definitely see the value in having the GPS location in some instances, but I doubt most people will need it...that said, I'm sure there are some who just want to have that info included.  I do think the built-in GPS is more of a marketing thing than a needed tool based on the bodies they currently offer it as a built in.  I've used it for photos on my phone, but never felt the need or desire to have it on my DSLRs. 



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Rather than the GP-1 or a solmeta or somesuch I have an old Garmin Gecko that I record my trackfile on and import into Lightroom after parsing it to GPX. I often do without geotags, but it can be nice to have sometimes. The most important thing is to sync all involved clocks with each other. I sync my computer from the Garmin's time stamp, and then sync my cameras with CCP2.



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I bought one more than a year ago. As I am travelling a bit I wanted to have my photos geotagged (even so they are in named projectfolders, I was expecting to have a more precise geotagging on specific buildings and locations. Also it was to have the tagging when 'smart' folders are defined in my database. As it turned out, the GPS is very slow (on a normal day, not to cloudy), sucks the battery life, and tries to reposition frequently yet slow (move 10 meters away from where it was and wait for another 10-20s for the GPS to have relocated. So, even when having the GPS on I have at the end of the day only about 1/3 of my shoots geotagged. So, while I am still using it, it is defintely not my best buy, especially as it was at the priceof a smaller camera. Wondering if they improved the GPS mode that is now buildin in some of the more recent models. So, while I am still convinced that geotagging is very interesting, the techinal implementation that was done with these GPS modules was very poor.

Agree on the point you make about the effect on the battery life.



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While buying I had also looked into the option of an external GPS - the only reason for going for the NIkon GPS was to have the coordinates directly with the shot in the EXIF.

I suspect that if they either improved on the antenna (to have a better reception) or on the sensitivity (which could be software controlled in the GPS to have not that many relocalizations) they could avoid most of the issues dexcribed (this is why I feel that it is a poor tevhnical implementation)





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