Friday, May 11, 2007
Mini GPS For Your Camera - N2 di-GPS mini
Posted by Suhit Gupta in "HARDWARE" @ 11:00 AM
"The Global Positioning System - GPS is a satellites-based navigation system developed by the United States Department of Defense, officially named NAVSTAR GPS (Navigation Signal Timing And Ranging Global Positioning System). The GPS system is made up of satellite constellation of 24 satellites in intermediate circular orbits (ICO)... The di-GPS (digital images GPS) - a special design for DSLR (Digital Single-lens reflex) camera. It provides real time position (latitude, longitude, elevation) and the precise time (UTM time) information to your DSLR camera and records the locations to each digital image files so that you would never forget the exact location where you take the pictures."
For just around $300, you can now have a tiny little dongle that will keep track of the exact co-ordinates of where you took your photographs. It has a built-in backup battery to reserve system data for rapid satellite acquisition and a built-in patch antenna, so no extenal antenna requried. The only downside is that it only works with Nikon DSLRs (albeit without MC-35) and the Fujifilm S5 Pro. A couple of things I can't figure out are - 1) does it store its data along with each image, i.e. does the GPS information get encoded along with the images themselves; and 2) are their any subscription fees. For the latter, I am guessing the answer is no.
For just around $300, you can now have a tiny little dongle that will keep track of the exact co-ordinates of where you took your photographs. It has a built-in backup battery to reserve system data for rapid satellite acquisition and a built-in patch antenna, so no extenal antenna requried. The only downside is that it only works with Nikon DSLRs (albeit without MC-35) and the Fujifilm S5 Pro. A couple of things I can't figure out are - 1) does it store its data along with each image, i.e. does the GPS information get encoded along with the images themselves; and 2) are their any subscription fees. For the latter, I am guessing the answer is no.
