AviRoad Loc: Westchester County, NY

I do a good deal of traveling and take a good deal of photos for my artwork. A problem that I experience is that sometimes it's just impossible to remember precisely where the photo was taken and as I do architectural subjects that's a real inconvenience. I use my Olympus camera that's about 6-years old and I was considering a new Olympus camera since I have some very effective lenses for my purposes. But...Olympus doesn't seem to offer any camera that would permit me to use the lenses I have AND give metadata of a photo's location. Is there an easy method of addressing this issue that I'm not aware of other than taking cumbersome notes or also using my iPhone constantly to also photo a spot that WOULD log the location? Thanks for any help that might address this without my having to settle for a new camera that would be unnecessarily costly and not give me the use of my Olympus lenses.

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

Are you asking for a camera with GPS? What other metadata do you envision? Why use the iphone when you have a camera right there in your hands already, in the form of the Olympus? Just take the 'where' detail shots with the Olympus. Any keyword editor can add details to the images later, based on your memory and / or review of those supplemental images of the scene. GPS is another issue.

AviRoad Loc: Westchester County, NY

Well, I would think the camera has to have GPS in order to record the location as metadata. I'm not suggesting that I'd use the iPhone for photography when I have the camera, but rather to have the iPhone register the location metadata.

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

I'm still not understanding. Either the camera has GPS or not. If not, does Olympus have another piece of equipment to add this capability to your current model? Is GPS specific data really that relevant / important? For me, personally, no. If yes, for you, you know what to do. I just use my memory, my notes, or the documentation throw-away images I captured along the way to add relevant keywords to the images later.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

I'll either take a shot with my phone (it logs the LAT-LON), or use the Follow Mee ap on my <Android> phone if I'm going through multiple locations, like on a hike through Acadia. Then I can see where I was when I get back to home (base).

Yea, I wound up with a bunch like that one time from Mount Desert Island in Maine. Luckily I could go to Google Maps and decipher where I was for about 95% of them by looking at the map images. I still have a few where I have no idea where they were taken, other than on the island somewhere....

10MPlayer Loc: California

A trick I learned while on a cruise is to take a picture of the cruise itinery every morning before we head out. In your case I suggest taking a quick shot of something that will remind you where you were that day and do it first thing before you get busy and forget to do it. There are a million other things you could do. Keeping a notebook is the old fashioned tried and true way of course. Using the Notes app on your smartphone might be a more modern way. But I'm going with shooting a picture of somehting that identifies the place first thing in the morning. So, a shot of a street sign or a cafe with the name of the city, or a sign with the name of the park on it.

SalvageDiver Loc: Huntington Beach CA

I hike a lot, and like you, my cameras other than my iPhone don't have GPS capabilities. This is the method that I use for geotagging my camera images.

I have a geotracking app on my iPhone that automatically records its GPS location at preset time intervals and saves the date into a tracking log file. I start this app at the beginning of the hike.

At the beginning of the hike, synchronize the camera clock with your phone. I sometimes forget to do this so I just take a picture of the time displayed on my phone sometime during the hike. I can then use an app called "ShootShifter" to batch adjust the camera photos to the correct time. Now you have a time/GPS location log that you can use to geotag the images taken with your camera.

You can also use LR Classic to automatically batch geotag your images. The iPhone app logs the time and gps location into a GPX tracking file. You can load this into the LR map module, select a series of images and let LR geotag all the camera images.

The other method I use is to just take a single picture of the area that I'm photographing with my iPhone. I can then use the GPS location from the iPhone and add it to the metadata of my camera images. To be sure the time is synchronized (or can be synchronized) between my phone and my camera, I always take a picture of my iPhone time with my camera either during the hike/outing or when I get home so that I can ensure the camera time is correct or can be corrected in post.

Hope this helps
Mike

fredpnm Loc: Corrales, NM

Some cameras, like my Nikon D850 will accept GPS information from my smartphone at the time the images it taken. So add that to the list of ideas if you are lucky enough to have a camera that will do that.

Oh, and have plenty of spare batteries for the camera and phone...lol.

bsprague Loc: Lacey, WA, USA

AviRoad,

You might enjoy the excuse to add an Olympus TG-6 camera to your gear. It will record the GPS locations of pictures taken with it. But, it also will create a GPS track log without taking pictures. With that track log from the TG-6 you can synchronize with image files from your other Olympus cameras.

Some of the phone log apps might be easier, but a TG-6 can be a useful pocket camera.

Retired CPO Loc: Travel full time in an RV

Write a note to yourself with location data, then photograph it with your Olympus either right before or right after taking the photo(s) that you want to remember. Or get an Olympus TG-X (6) in my case. It's does GPS and it's small and light enough to carry with me always in a shoulder bag along with a spare battery, an SD Card and a water bottle even when carrying my Nikons for the real work!

JD750 Loc: SoCal

There are a couple free possibilities. (1) take a pic with your phone at each location. The phone pic will have the location in the metadata. (2) as suggested above by CPO write at each location and photograph the note.

User ID

When arriving or just before departing a site, shoot a few seconds of video of the site speaking the info to the camera mic.

Use MP4 video cuz it involves very little storage and any PC can play it back.

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

Moreover, "real" professional cameras have a simple to use mic to speak relevant details into, like time, date, location and person being photographed. This feature is really high-end. The rest of us get by with throwaway images that establish location or other relevant details.

User ID

That feature is what inspired the video idea, as a kludge for lesser cameras. I tested my Olympus and it has assigned the video clip a filename number within sequence with the still shots preceding and following the clip. Problem solved.

But Ill read the next nine pages just to see what sort of awkward, useless, or expensive "solutions" Hawgsters surely will dream up.

hpucker99 Loc: Anchorage, Alaska

You can link a newer Olympus/OMS camera to your phone with the O.I. Share app to add lat-long to the files on the camera. See the following video from Rob Trek:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAL2Iei7hPI

I use method 2, but it doesn't work all the time.