The error described in some of the previous posts did not occur to me. On The Contrary. I have used the device have often simultaneously to two cameras during a session. That time I put it on a Canon EOS 60D, and then again on a Canon PowerShot SX30 IS, changing the cameras in any order, but used only the same Bilora Photo Geotagger GT-01. Afterwards the enclosed ublox software has the geo-data in all pictures entered is correct). With a bit of craft skills you can use the device even with cameras without hotshoe (= without synchronous contact). However, some tricks are to be noted that later.
First: cameras with built-in GPS or with a special data input for external GPS logger are still rare and have before admission waiting times, corresponding to a navigation device in the car. The principal advantage of this device (photo-Geotagger GT-01, only a recording device category) is that it works with any camera, at any time without waiting period is immediately ready and - except for the recording itself - is not drawing power from the battery. Linked to this is the principal disadvantage that the location data is not written directly into the images (recording files of the camera). You must subsequently undergo the effort to merge the received data of the photo-taggers with the images of the camera. For this, the received data must be linked to satellite location data from the Internet and the calculated from positions are written in the images.
That sounds complicated, but proved to me easily and reliably than good. And with most cameras have been reasonably anyway little choice. Okay, the accuracy in consecutive shots from the same point of view as scattered around 10-20m. I think that the fair price that the signals are picked up wartre-free in less than a second. Cameras and equipment, in which the GPS coordinates are calculated internally (without Internet), need for a cold start to be etched minutes, but they are about 5x more specific.
Among the most frequently mentioned errors:
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- Wobbly seat on the hot shoe:
Did not occur to me, maybe my younger model origin (purchase late May 2011) was. In removable plug-on foot was for locking a resilient ball.
- Obstruction of a drop down flash:
Yes. For me, however, is not a problem. But for tinkerers bypassed (see later).
- Removability of slip-on foot is unnecessary and complicates the handling:
Yes. But access to the trigger contacts also has special benefits (for use on cameras without hotshoe, see later).
- Images are mismatched:
No, at least not necessarily. Did not occur to me with appropriate UTC time setting on the camera.
Measures:
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Due to the many contributions with software problems, I have strictly kept me in the first step to the Gebauchsanweisung (which is not my way otherwise). In the second step, I have chosen as a precautionary camera Time UTC: Although the manual says that there was no need to enter a correct time zone on the camera, the software is so smart to guess the right time relationships. Since I have developed a distrust of "artificial intelligence", I have the clocks set all cameras to UTC. So I suppose inkauf that the images no longer local but global time. The advantage, I must no longer worry about summer or winter time and no longer adjust the cameras to local time even when traveling. Has contributed to the success?
Success:
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As described above, location data of all images were invariably assigned properly - even while using alternating cameras with a Manfrotto Photo Tagger.
Expansion:
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That encouraged me to use the Tagger also for local recognition for cameras without hotshoe or when shooting at occupied hotshoe. The built-in button "CAPTURE" proved to be unsuitable. If you press it, in each case the place is properly detected, but the entry in the images is carried out by a different philosophy. All other "CAPTURE" recordings is in fact in common, the first "capture" value allocated to again done a recording from the hot shoe from. It says so in the manual.
Solution: In order without attachment to the camera hot shoe can trigger the GPS freehand, must only then at each scene two contacts are bridged briefly below the housing (push-on foot to pull off). I've tinkered a small board with a microswitch that I plug instead of the plug-on foot. So I can synchronize with any cameras Camera-triggering manually with the GPS triggering alternately. Time with the hot shoe of the camera, sometimes by hand. At the end a photo-period, the software transmits the GPS data into the images folder at any of the cameras involved. If desired, one after the other in-camera custom folder or in one go in a joint. Whether this also works if you do not set the cameras to UTC, I have not been studied.
Personal experiences
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This Geo Tagger on the hot shoe, there were only positive results. (However, the experiences are only based on camera settings with UTC time). Since I use these geo-tagger I have the built-in GPS function (for whose sake I once bought the Panasonic DMC TZ 10) stillgelgt. Due to high battery power and long waiting times for the satellite correlation of the shot is possible.
And one more thing for RAW photographer:
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The software of the Bilora-Taggers sets the GPS data from RAW formats separately from a so-called. Sidecar file (Endung.xmp). However, hardly a RAW converter shall take note thereof. If you shoot RAW, should save it as a first step, the naked raw GPS data (Endung.sdf), later to be able to synchronize the JPGs produced by RAW converter so.
Saving goes like this:
1. Create a folder for the raw GPS data this session
2. Start the u-blox software
3. Connect the PC with Tagger
1. Enter Select "Tools / GPS data abpeichern in folder" and folder names from step 4 in the menu.
5. Press the "Download" button. Then the raw GPS data of the taggers are stored in the selected folder.