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It shouldn't be this hard
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Nov. 29th, 2008 | 12:03 pm
I've been writing letters to Nikon, Leica, Red, and Sony - all makers of digital cameras that I'm interested in. The purpose of these letters is to get these companies to do a little simple innovation to make the life of nature/landscape, and architectural, and even wildlife photographers, a bit easier.
It's kind of amazing what hoops we have to jump tough to geotag our photo's - first you carry around a gps data logger. Then you have to make sure your camera's clock and the gps are set to the same time, then you have to load images onto the computer, log the gps track log in. Then you try to match up the photo's by time, to the gps log by time - now there's a lot of software that makes that not too hard but your still looking at an hour or more if you shoot the way I do - if you shoot more (and lot's do) then it's even more work. How do you fix this?
Bluetooth in cameras. - the benefits many and all very useful.
1. gets gps coordinates from you bluetooth enabled gps (a few dozen choices at the moment) and automatically adds the data to the RAW or jpg files, in the camera - just saved me an hour or more of work - per shooting day.
2. A Class A transceiver has a range of 100meters (or more) - great for remote control of the camera/flashes. Can also be used with a lap top to do tethered shooting - full control of the camera from you laptop.
3. Transfer files to the computer just by turning it on. With a little bit of software work - you could even specify that it should make a backup to an external drive before deleting the files from the camera. Mot sure I would use this, as I end up with 2 or 3 cards full before I get around to transferring to HD, but for the more casual shooter - it would be nice.
You can find bluetooth in point and shoots but oddly - not in pro cameras. Very annoying.
It's kind of amazing what hoops we have to jump tough to geotag our photo's - first you carry around a gps data logger. Then you have to make sure your camera's clock and the gps are set to the same time, then you have to load images onto the computer, log the gps track log in. Then you try to match up the photo's by time, to the gps log by time - now there's a lot of software that makes that not too hard but your still looking at an hour or more if you shoot the way I do - if you shoot more (and lot's do) then it's even more work. How do you fix this?
Bluetooth in cameras. - the benefits many and all very useful.
1. gets gps coordinates from you bluetooth enabled gps (a few dozen choices at the moment) and automatically adds the data to the RAW or jpg files, in the camera - just saved me an hour or more of work - per shooting day.
2. A Class A transceiver has a range of 100meters (or more) - great for remote control of the camera/flashes. Can also be used with a lap top to do tethered shooting - full control of the camera from you laptop.
3. Transfer files to the computer just by turning it on. With a little bit of software work - you could even specify that it should make a backup to an external drive before deleting the files from the camera. Mot sure I would use this, as I end up with 2 or 3 cards full before I get around to transferring to HD, but for the more casual shooter - it would be nice.
You can find bluetooth in point and shoots but oddly - not in pro cameras. Very annoying.
