Oldmanphotos Loc: Harvey LA

Really new, Have been reading posts for a few years and really have learned a lot. We are planning a cruise to Australia in December this year and I think if I have a GPS to help locate my photos it would make it easier to finally organize my photos at home. I am thinking of purchasing a GPS unit for my Nikon D7200. Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions for a unit? I am looking at the Solmeta Geotagger N3 or the Solmeta GMax receiver. The Nikon GP1A does not seem to be available and I question which would be the best choice. Cost and weight are a consideration. Thanks for any help.

Cany143 Loc: SE Utah

My D5300 has GPS, and all too often there are too few satellites for it to get a reading/placement in EXIF data. Could get a GPS add-on for my D610, but then I'd have something dangling off the camera. Granted, neither of these relate directly to your D7200, but here's something that might: bet you've got a cell phone, right? These days, I constantly use my 'antique' iPhone 6S Plus and an app called 'Gaia GPS' for very high accuracy GPS location/route marking/camera function/etc., and rather than spend time keying in place names, just use the native voice note app to record the whats and whens and wheres.

rgrenaderphoto Loc: Hollywood, CA

The Adobe Lightroom Mobile app serves the same function.

Oldmanphotos Loc: Harvey LA

Thanks thats a great idea my iPhone 6S should do the same I will download that app asap Thanks

rfmaude41 Loc: Lancaster, Texas (DFW area)

Try looking here:

https://www.cameta.com/index.cfm?fa=display.search&page=1&keywords=nikon%20gps&sort_by_field=Price:ASC

David in Dallas Loc: Dallas, Texas, USA

I use one of these: https://digital-photography-school.com/i-gotu-gt-120-gps-data-logger-review/. In fact, I usually have 2 of them with me in case I need to cover a longer than usual day of photographing (by staggering their use). I typically set them for a 15-second interval between readings, and that gives about a 10-12 hour battery life; I then recharge while downloading their data to my laptop at the end of the day.

As with any external GPS unit, to get accurate information where photos were shot requires that the camera clock be accurate. I try to keep my camera clock to within a second or so of correct time (I set it with the Internet clock), because at highway speeds (say 60mph) the vehicle and unit are moving 88 feet every second. When taking photos from a tour coach, you don't want to be more than 1/10 mile off in the location if you're going to try to identify what you took a picture of, and that isn't a lot of seconds of error allowable. (Walking, of course, is less of a problem.) BTW, the software that locates the photos interpolates between the bracketing data points well enough that the distance between them is not usually critical, so the fact that I only take readings every 15 seconds isn't a problem--but the accuracy of what time the photo was made is.

Using a separate GPS Logger device does mean that I don't need to keep my camera ON all the time (so that the GPS stays locked on when I take a picture) and so I don't run down its battery. The little unit, unlike a smart phone, has only one simple task to perform and its battery is sufficient to power it for a normal day of operation.