banjonut Loc: Southern Michigan

I have both the Promote and Opteka from Amazon that I use on D7000. They also have ones that will fit D300. I really like the Promote -$99. I paid almost $150. The Opteka works well too at less than $40. I also have been using an app in the iPhone that works well but does add another step or two.

Kuzano

Seriously????

And are all you folks actually posting pictures with GPS coordinates in the metadata on the internet.

WOW!!!!

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CHICAGO (CBS) – We love posting our favorite photos on Facebook, MySpace or Twitter to show our friends and family what we’ve been up to. But, as CBS 2’s Mary Kay Kleist reports, those innocent snapshots could be revealing a lot more about you than you might think — and opening you up to danger as well.

Cristina Parker loves taking pictures with her smartphone.

“I like to take a lot of photos of my dog and post them on Twitter. I think she’s really cute. Also my friends and family,” said Parker.

But one day, she got an ominous tweet from the website “I Can Stalk U”, telling her they know where she lives.

Parker said, “I thought it was a little scary. They were accurate to my location from my house. So my immediate response was, ‘what happened, how do you know where I am?’”

It turns out, Parker’s photos contained GPS information called geotags, embedded by her smartphone. Every time she posted a photo online that she took with her phone, she was inadvertently giving out her whereabouts.

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Metadata can identify gun owners too Here's another constitutional concern.

Karen Reilly, the director of development for The Tor Project, an American non-profit group that makes technology designed to provide online anonymity and skirt censorship, said metadata can even identify you as a gun owner.

"Never mind background checks, if you bring your cellphone to the gun range you probably have a gun," she said.

"People don't realize all the information that they're giving out," she added. "You can try to secure it - you can use some tech tools, you can try to be a black hole online - but if you try to live your life the way people are expecting it, it's really difficult to control the amount of data that you're leaking all over the place."

Think about this the next time you snap a pic with the iPhone or other smart device and send it out to a friend. You're actually sending it out to a world of metadata thieves, a group that includes, as we now know for certain, the federal government.

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Stories of people's online photos being used for nefarious purposes are easy to find: A soldier's photo was stolen off MySpace, posted by scam artists under a fake Match.com account and used to con one woman out of thousands of dollars. One blogger found her family's photo being used as an advertisement in the Czech Republic. Another mother's photo of her 4-year-old was pulled off Flickr and posted on a Brazilian social networking site where it was rated for "sexiness."

The convenience of sharing photos with friends (and non-friends) through social networking sites and blogs is undeniable. Unfortunately, so are the dangers. Not only can photos be stolen and used by strangers, but many photos, especially those taken by phones or devices with GPS technology, contain tags that reveal exactly where the photos were snapped. In other words, if a parent takes a photo of his or her child playing at home and then posts it online, it's possible for strangers to know exactly where they live.

A few simple steps can dramatically reduce your chances of falling victim, and there's no need to give up photo-sharing altogether. Here are six steps everyone should take to protect themselves and their families when posting photos online.

The list goes on endlessly.

One could assume that the lot of you have no concern about hackers, pedophiles, and other criminals searching for identity or location of persons posting online images that contain GPS metadata??

One of the hottest buzzes on the internet now, and it appears the hackers are having a heyday with this issue, particularly with all the cell phones that now contain GPS in images.

Are you stripping all metadata from picture you send via attachments, or post online to web hosting or album sites?

CHOLLY Loc: THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE!

As long as you don't take pictures of your home... ;)

johneccles Loc: Leyland UK

Anyone who puts the photos on Facebook, Twitter or My space knows the risks involved!!
As CHOLLY says as long as you don't post of where you live, where's the problem?

Kuzano

And then, one might ask, where's the benefit?

I can look back at fifty years worth of digital images and film negatives/prints and pretty much tell you where I shot those images. Telling you the latitude, longitude, and altitude of the setting does not add anything to those images.

It's another of the gimmicks that the camera and camera phone industry has foisted on a very stupid public, rather than spend R&D on improving the real reason for carrying a camera.... Image Quality.

If you are also using your camera for GeoCaching, or the location to the nearest Dunkin' Donuts, heaven help you.

johneccles Loc: Leyland UK

Hi Kuzano, I respect your opinion but the GPS function on my second camera is an interesting "fun" extra which I enjoy using. My main camera does not have a GPS facility and I enjoy using that camera just as much. Also we don't have Dunkin Donuts here in the UK so whatever vague insult you tried to insinuate was wasted so can I suggest you stay in your little heaven in Oregon take lots of photos and share them on here.
Thanks.
John