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The Canon GP-E2 Now Shipping
samkatz:
I have to say that as a landscape photographer who spends days driving around rural areas looking for the right scene, I would love to have a GPS info tagged into my files. Currently I log locations into my auto GPS or Android with a description and try to piece things together when I get home. Google maps w/satellite view helps.
Aside from the price, I'm not crazy about using the flash shoe because I either keep a flash mounted or carry one in my vest for a quick fill light if need be. I agree the GPS tagging is not an essential function, but I would pay a bit more to get a model that had it built in. I'm sure they could find a way to have it work in the camera body...it could be in any plastic bubble on the surface...
kdsand:
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--- Quote from: stoneysnapper on May 21, 2012, 07:08:56 PM ---However if you think $269 is expensive, try living in the UK. This Unit is costing £299 ($464) at Warehouse Express, one of the largest photographic online retailers in the UK, at $269 that works out at £175 at $1.55/£.
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This really is an outrageous markup, even allowing for the VAT and everything.
I really want this thing, but it's a scandalous price in the UK. May give importing a whirl - even with the VAT and duty and shipping, it cannot be that much...
So please, my American friends: I love you dearly, but please stop bitching about $3500 and $269. It's starting to get annoying ! :)
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Well any time I feel I am forced to bend over and just - take it I will bitch loudly. :o
Of course if you're being violated even worse then by all means you go ahead & squeal louder.
Grab your ankles - take it like a man...... :-[
Say what?
No there's some games pokey don't play. ;)
UrbanVoyeur:
--- Quote from: Caps18 on May 22, 2012, 04:12:46 PM ---Why can't Canon learn from Apple and just make something that "Just Works". If my iPhone can have a GPS receiver built in, and there are pocket cameras with GPS built in, why isn't it built in to all of their DSLRs? If the photographer is worried about battery life, they could switch it off.
It is ridiculous what you have to do in order to get real time GPS values into the metadata on the 5Dm2...
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I agree. High quality GPS takes up very little space and costs just a few dollars - almost nothing.
If a rinkey-dink Canon point and shoot can include GPS and still be under $250 for the whole camera, http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/753784-REG/Canon_CAPSSX230BL_Powershot_SX230_HS_Digital.html, there is no reason Canon couldn't include on it $3500 near top-of-the-line model. To have to buy a cumbersome accessory that takes up the shoe is silly at this point. Stick it in the battery grip if you must. But $269? Insane.
Sam:
--- Quote from: UrbanVoyeur on May 23, 2012, 10:49:30 AM ---
--- Quote from: Caps18 on May 22, 2012, 04:12:46 PM ---Why can't Canon learn from Apple and just make something that "Just Works". If my iPhone can have a GPS receiver built in, and there are pocket cameras with GPS built in, why isn't it built in to all of their DSLRs? If the photographer is worried about battery life, they could switch it off.
It is ridiculous what you have to do in order to get real time GPS values into the metadata on the 5Dm2...
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I agree. High quality GPS takes up very little space and costs just a few dollars - almost nothing.
If a rinkey-dink Canon point and shoot can include GPS and still be under $250 for the whole camera, http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/753784-REG/Canon_CAPSSX230BL_Powershot_SX230_HS_Digital.html, there is no reason Canon couldn't include on it $3500 near top-of-the-line model. To have to buy a cumbersome accessory that takes up the shoe is silly at this point. Stick it in the battery grip if you must. But $269? Insane.
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There is a very simple explanation for this. Mark III, 1DX etc are constructed in/around magnesium alloy. A GPS tracker that could fit into an DSLR body would NOT be powerful enough to penetrate the body accurately and consistently.
The point-and-shoot cameras often feature GPS because they usually contain a higher percentage of plastic than metal.
If Canon put one in their pro bodies we'd all be complaining about how inaccurate it was and how our smartphones tagged photos better than our 6k cameras.
UrbanVoyeur:
--- Quote from: Sam on May 23, 2012, 11:02:45 AM ---There is a very simple explanation for this. Mark III, 1DX etc are constructed in/around magnesium alloy. A GPS tracker that could fit into an DSLR body would NOT be powerful enough to penetrate the body accurately and consistently.
The point-and-shoot cameras often feature GPS because they usually contain a higher percentage of plastic than metal.
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I don't buy that. You can put a GPS antenna anywhere, even on the surface of a magnesium body, underneath the plastic skin. You can even use the alloy body as an one antenna. What about the other DSLR's that include GPS but have alloy bodies - like the Sony A77
Or they could stick in the hand grip which is hollow plastic. The receiver chips with built-in logging and serial output are very small.
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