Jelbert Geo-Tagger
Tuesday 26th September
It’s a great idea - a device you connect to the hot-shoe of your camera and it logs the latitude, longitude and direction of every shot as you take it. It stores this information on an SD card so you can later correlate the location information with your photographs.
However, there’s no way I’m putting something that looks like this on the top of my camera. I think I’d rather just use a notebook and pen as normal.
What they need is a belt-pack gps and logger with an extension cable from the camera’s flash connector. The connector to use would probably be the external flash cable, rather than the hotshoe - you might need that for something like… oh, I don’t know… maybe a flash? I’m still not sure I’d be interested in buying one, though.
Wow! Looks a bit top heavy doesn’t it!
Code Monkey
26 Sep 06 at 9:41 am
Haha! That looks fab, just don’t let it get hit by lightening. Johnny Five is alive!
Kouros
26 Sep 06 at 10:12 am
“What they need is a belt-pack gps and logger” - of course that wouldn’t be able to detect the direction of pointing.
stu
26 Sep 06 at 10:21 am
But why would you need it?
Aoj
26 Sep 06 at 10:36 am
I’m guessing from the customer testimonial on the site that if you take thousands of pictures in a day without really noticing where you are, and want to be able to label them, or go back it could be useful.
Maybe if you’re photographing wildlife? I don’t know. I can’t think of why _I’d_ need one - but then again, I don’t take photos at a high rate.
stu
26 Sep 06 at 10:39 am
Could smooth the geograph project workflow
sweavo
26 Sep 06 at 12:24 pm
Hehe, it looks like a home-build kit from Maplin!
DoGGa
27 Sep 06 at 9:09 am
“What they need is a belt-pack gps and logger” - of course that wouldn’t be able to detect the direction of pointing.
It would if the gadget was mounted on top of your back-pack, facing the same way as your eyes. Instead of on top of the camera, that is.
Omally
27 Sep 06 at 6:26 pm