What do you use GPS for in your photograhy?
Nov 22, 2018 08:53:33 #
At my age, GPS will tell me where I took the photo. My memory is all digital these days.
Nov 22, 2018 09:13:49 #
Bison Bud wrote:
It seems that GPS has become a popular feature on ... (show quote)
Simply put, for the occasional location reminding. That said, I don't use it very much so why waste my battery life?
Nov 22, 2018 09:20:40 #
DirtFarmer wrote:
At my age, GPS will tell me where I took the photo. My memory is all digital these days.
Right behind ya!
Nov 22, 2018 09:29:04 #
Nov 22, 2018 09:31:36 #
When I was traveling about the US I took about 90% of my photos off a moving motorcycle and on great scenes I would mark the location on my gps as a way point so I could later pinpoint where I took the photos.
Nov 22, 2018 09:41:43 #
I’ve taken several boat trips (Galapagos, Queen Charlotte Islands, coastal Maine, and more), and wish I had done a better job of recording location of key photos. I don’t think I’d care for a GPS in my camera, but I recently bought a GPS logger that records my movement, and can save the files along with my photos. About $75 at Amazon.
This is a logger, not a tracker for hunting down your cheating ex (read the reviews). A little cumbersome to use, but it can record your track plus a marker when you press a button.
Some other good posts here...I like the GIS post in particular.
This is a logger, not a tracker for hunting down your cheating ex (read the reviews). A little cumbersome to use, but it can record your track plus a marker when you press a button.
Some other good posts here...I like the GIS post in particular.
Nov 22, 2018 09:58:44 #
GPS is useful in shooting outdoors as you sometimes wander and may want to get back to the same spot. Also good for shooting land for sale, most of which don't have street address yet. Realtors want to be sure they get what they pay for.
The GPS does EAT BATTERY so you have to be sure you prepared for that.
Be careful to turn it off when you take photos around the house or of kids. There was a photo on here last year of the guys' pile of new photo equipment stacked on the coffee table I pulled up the exif and emailed the guy his home location................................
The GPS does EAT BATTERY so you have to be sure you prepared for that.
Be careful to turn it off when you take photos around the house or of kids. There was a photo on here last year of the guys' pile of new photo equipment stacked on the coffee table I pulled up the exif and emailed the guy his home location................................
Nov 22, 2018 10:16:52 #
jerryc41 wrote:
Getting to and from the location. (Garmin DriveAssist 50) 
Amen, great piece of technology
Nov 22, 2018 10:17:52 #
GPS is good for taking surveillance photos of cheating spouses to prove where they were (and at what date/stamp time).
Nov 22, 2018 10:20:01 #
Longshadow wrote:
I use the GPS in my cell phone to take a shot (tag) of the current shooting location so I can ID the image locations from my camera. Many places I go look so similar.
I don't trust the phone GPS , works off cell signals, just when you need it you have no service and get lost, I use both in the car, in fact my Garmin gets google earth over my phone so I have the benefit of both systems.
Nov 22, 2018 10:23:48 #
DirtFarmer wrote:
At my age, GPS will tell me where I took the photo. My memory is all digital these days.
All my RAW images have the date taken and are filed that way, from that info I can usually figure out where I was, if not the assistant (wife) can, VBG.
Nov 22, 2018 11:17:43 #
While I don't use GPS coordinates either, they might be useful to viewers. I can imagine a spectacular shot of some wilderness scene and others wanting to see the location. I suppose one can enter GPS coordinates into a smartdevice Maps app and be taken there to see how to get to.
Nov 22, 2018 11:56:07 #
I have 30,000 photos, mostly from travel. I no longer know where many/most were taken, other than a state or country. Now I have a Pentax K1 with GPS and I know the specific location where every photo was shot. Why is that important? When I want to find a photo, or when someone asks, or when I want to return to a location. Also when I post somewhere, including my online galleries, folks usually want to know where.
Nov 22, 2018 12:27:05 #
Seems like every trip my wife and I take results in 500-1000 pics to cull through. Whatever camera has the duty gets setup to generate a new folder every day. Even with that, there are always a number of pictures that if it wasn't for the camera GPS, I'd be struggling to figure out where or when. For that reason alone, many times my 6d gets the duty call.
Nov 22, 2018 12:41:01 #
Time and place and direction is always handy to have, but it also allows your sensor to track stars for astro photography moving the sensor over time, well it would if you have a Pentax dslr.
You also can use a location as a filter in Lightroom.
You also can use a location as a filter in Lightroom.
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