Any GPS enabled cameras yet?

[vsboxerboy]

So I've been looking into this for quite some time now. I know that Ricoh released a GPS enabled camera for over $1000 two years ago or so and it seems incredible that I have yet to see any similar products out there. I would imagine that this would be a HUGE feature for a lot of people.

I am going to be traveling later and am looking into buying a camera to take with me and having the photos geotagged would be very very nice.

 

[vsboxerboy]

if anyone cares, I think that the best solution, for now at least, is to get a handheld GPS unit which can log data and then get software to sync the two. Garmin makes GPS units that can accept microSD cards and can continuously log your position for like a year or so until you get to a PC and upload the data.

 

[Patman]

interesting idea, never thought it mattered

 

[BillLeeLee]

Are you talking about cameras with a built in GPS, or ones that connect with a supported GPS device?

For the latter - Nikon D2x, D2xs, D200, D300, D3 all support connecting to a GPS. They are all SLRs. No idea if the Canon dSLRs have the same feature.

 

[vsboxerboy]

Thanks Bill, I have seen a few of those before. The problem is that those camras are all quite expensive and I unfortunately don't have the budget for that.

 

[delooch]

depending on what kind of camera you have, check out www.dawtech.hk (search N2 di-GPS) or www.sonystyle.com (searh GPS-CS1KA) - they have modules that will feed gps data into the metadata of the shot.

 

[Sireal]

I just bought a Canon EOS 40D and while I haven't had time to try it out the documentation mentions the ability to connect to various GPS units for location data I presume. I can't say whether less expensive Canons are able to (XT, XTI, 30D etc..).

I have a TomTom 910 and after I actually learn how to use the camera itself I plan on checking out this feature just out of curiosity.