Jobo announces Photo GPS camera add-on (again)

We haven't heard much about Jobo's Photo GPS camera add-on since it was announced around the time of last year's PMA show, and it now looks like that's been for good reason, as the company's apparently decided to have another go at this whole "product launch" thing at this year's PMA. From the looks of it, however, not much has changed with the device itself in the ensuing months, with it still promising to attach to your camera's flash hot shoe and record GPS information as you shoot, and squeeze all that data into your images' EXIF metadata (or XML file in the case of RAW images) when you sync it up. Assuming things don't change any further, you can now apparently look for the unit to hit "mid-year," when it'll set you back $159.

[BigDaddyM @ Feb 1st 2008 5:10PM]

Jobo seems to lately announce things but not actually release them.
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[yishai @ Feb 1st 2008 5:18PM]

Looks like you're SOL if you want to use your speedlight at the same time.

[paragraph @ Feb 1st 2008 5:29PM]

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Despite the limited number of times it will come up, what if you want to use a flash?

I'd rather see a device that sits on my camera powered by AA or LIon than this, if only for three shots a month...

Allthough, i guess this works...

Another thought, what about non-slr users?

[Michael Chastain @ Feb 1st 2008 7:07PM]

The GiSTEQ CD110BT is cheaper and seems more versatile to me. http://www.adorama.com/ISWPTCD110BT.html

[Nuclear Fire @ Feb 1st 2008 7:32PM]

Same design. Same specs. Higher Price. A year later. And Geotate is coming up with a better way to do the same thing.

[sam @ Feb 1st 2008 11:36PM]

this item does not embed gps info into exif as stated in the blurb, but rather allows later synching to images via software -

[termini @ Feb 2nd 2008 6:47AM]

Hmmm perfect for scoping out a foreign power's landmarks, either for strategic, um, urban re-development. Or for map enhancement.