http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atp-photofinder-pro-loses-the-base-station-takes-us-to-geotaggi/ Engadget Comments for ATP PhotoFinder Pro loses the base station, takes us to geotagging nirvana http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atp-photofinder-pro-loses-the-base-station-takes-us-to-geotaggi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atp-photofinder-pro-loses-the-base-station-takes-us-to-geotaggi/May 28th 2009 10:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atp-photofinder-pro-loses-the-base-station-takes-us-to-geotaggi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atp-photofinder-pro-loses-the-base-station-takes-us-to-geotaggi/May 28th 2009 10:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atp-photofinder-pro-loses-the-base-station-takes-us-to-geotaggi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atp-photofinder-pro-loses-the-base-station-takes-us-to-geotaggi/
Q: Does the Photo Finder support CompactFlash or xD flash cards?
A: The Photo Finder supports all memory cards as long as they’re formatted using a FAT/FAT32 file system. For SD(HC) and Memory Stick cards, there is a built in card slot. For other memory card formats such as CF and xD, a standard USB reader (sold separately) can be directly plugged into the Photo Finder using the USB adapter cable (included). An ATP USB card reader is recommended to ensure compatibility and performance.

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This seems simple, but very specific.

I have a cheap little logger that I use all the time.

I like to geotag my photos:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ryfter/3561799210/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ryfter/3484278079/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ryfter/2811931759/

It lets me know where they were, AND I can point people to the map, if they want to see where the photos are taken. Geotagging is a great addition to my photography toolbox.]]>May 28th 2009 11:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atp-photofinder-pro-loses-the-base-station-takes-us-to-geotaggi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atp-photofinder-pro-loses-the-base-station-takes-us-to-geotaggi/May 28th 2009 10:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atp-photofinder-pro-loses-the-base-station-takes-us-to-geotaggi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atp-photofinder-pro-loses-the-base-station-takes-us-to-geotaggi/
Of course, now I've just moved on to use an 8 MP cell phone camera with built-in geotagging.]]>May 28th 2009 10:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atp-photofinder-pro-loses-the-base-station-takes-us-to-geotaggi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atp-photofinder-pro-loses-the-base-station-takes-us-to-geotaggi/May 28th 2009 10:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atp-photofinder-pro-loses-the-base-station-takes-us-to-geotaggi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atp-photofinder-pro-loses-the-base-station-takes-us-to-geotaggi/May 28th 2009 10:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atp-photofinder-pro-loses-the-base-station-takes-us-to-geotaggi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atp-photofinder-pro-loses-the-base-station-takes-us-to-geotaggi/>>>Extremely nice, BUT is it also possible to download the GPS logs to the PC for other purposes?
Yep. I talked my wife's stepfather into buying one so I could see how well it worked before I bought one. It works pretty well and yes, the device gives you the option of spitting out it's complete log file in an XML format onto the memory card once it's done processing the images.
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Still I was very glad to have it with me in Vietnam, and almost all of my photos from there are properly geotagged, which makes for a nice way of going over the trip later.
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0) check my camera's time is correct, the OS ought to set it automatically whenever it is connected but I have helpfully broken this in some way and can't face fixing it.

1) plug tracker into USB port so that it mounts as removable storage, and move file off tracker onto disk.

2) convert file from NMEA to GPX format using a GUI frontend to gps babel software

3) load GPX file, and photos [which are Adobe DNG format by now, but any format works], in GPS Photo Linker (this is a mac program, there are others on PC)

4) set the time adjust if needed (see 0), then hit the 'do them all' button and do something else while waiting for it to finish

5) go back into lightroom, select all the files and do 'read metadata' just to make sure it noticed they changed [I'm still running the old version lightroom...]

This isn't really quite as bad as it seems from the number of steps since all are either really short, or if it takes time you can do something else while waiting. But even so, this hardware to do the trick seems like a neat idea... except if it can't do RAW then it's not a lot of use to me and many others.

Hopefully we will soon see a time when camera manufacturers include GPS in all DSLR-class cameras as standard, or at least implement support for eg Bluetooth GPS. Unfortunately then they wouldn't be able to sell their own $500 GPS solutions... hmmm....]]>May 28th 2009 12:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atp-photofinder-pro-loses-the-base-station-takes-us-to-geotaggi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atp-photofinder-pro-loses-the-base-station-takes-us-to-geotaggi/May 28th 2009 11:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atp-photofinder-pro-loses-the-base-station-takes-us-to-geotaggi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atp-photofinder-pro-loses-the-base-station-takes-us-to-geotaggi/
Also, there is an iPhone app that will do this as well - of course, the app has to be running while you're taking pictures. It's called GeoTagLog. I believe it will automatically connect to flickr and geotag your photos that you've already uploaded post-event. Handy.]]>May 28th 2009 12:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atp-photofinder-pro-loses-the-base-station-takes-us-to-geotaggi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atp-photofinder-pro-loses-the-base-station-takes-us-to-geotaggi/
I have the Sony GPS logger. It works well, though some other things have come out since I bought it that might be better. I can't see much advantage to doing the tagging before before it gets to your PC.]]>May 28th 2009 12:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atp-photofinder-pro-loses-the-base-station-takes-us-to-geotaggi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atp-photofinder-pro-loses-the-base-station-takes-us-to-geotaggi/>>
The GPS Chipset they use in this device SUCKS!! WTF is 14 minutes to get a lock all about?
The original unit was slow. So is this one.
That is the one major issue with this thing. it is slow to lock and not sensitive enough. They should use the MTK chip set. It would make this device superior in every way.

IMHO there ar much better choices to be found.
Yaesumofo
]]>May 28th 2009 12:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atp-photofinder-pro-loses-the-base-station-takes-us-to-geotaggi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atp-photofinder-pro-loses-the-base-station-takes-us-to-geotaggi/What are those other choices you're talking about of? Any simular/alternative products?]]>May 28th 2009 1:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atp-photofinder-pro-loses-the-base-station-takes-us-to-geotaggi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atp-photofinder-pro-loses-the-base-station-takes-us-to-geotaggi/http://www.buygpsnow.com/

There are a few very cood and inexpensive FAST options here.
Yaesumofo]]>May 28th 2009 2:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atp-photofinder-pro-loses-the-base-station-takes-us-to-geotaggi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atp-photofinder-pro-loses-the-base-station-takes-us-to-geotaggi/However, I never had a problem with it corrupting pictures or losing any data.]]>May 28th 2009 7:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atp-photofinder-pro-loses-the-base-station-takes-us-to-geotaggi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atp-photofinder-pro-loses-the-base-station-takes-us-to-geotaggi/
I think it's kind of stupid for people to say "my phone already does that"... Yeah for the photos taken with your crappy phone camera. Lame posts.]]>May 28th 2009 12:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atp-photofinder-pro-loses-the-base-station-takes-us-to-geotaggi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atp-photofinder-pro-loses-the-base-station-takes-us-to-geotaggi/http://www.galarina.eu/GeoLogTag/Home.html

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1. GeoLogTag logs where I am during my photoshoot
2. Afterwards GeoLogTag geotags the photos on my Mac over WiFi
3. I import the photos in iPhoto and they automatically show up in Places

For Flickr users the workflow is more or less the same. For Windows users the workflow requires a GPX file.

http://www.galarina.eu/GeoLogTag/How_To.html]]>May 28th 2009 3:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atp-photofinder-pro-loses-the-base-station-takes-us-to-geotaggi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atp-photofinder-pro-loses-the-base-station-takes-us-to-geotaggi/May 28th 2009 3:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atp-photofinder-pro-loses-the-base-station-takes-us-to-geotaggi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atp-photofinder-pro-loses-the-base-station-takes-us-to-geotaggi/May 28th 2009 5:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atp-photofinder-pro-loses-the-base-station-takes-us-to-geotaggi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atp-photofinder-pro-loses-the-base-station-takes-us-to-geotaggi/If no, I'll be happy with a separate logger.]]>May 28th 2009 4:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atp-photofinder-pro-loses-the-base-station-takes-us-to-geotaggi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atp-photofinder-pro-loses-the-base-station-takes-us-to-geotaggi/May 29th 2009 9:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atp-photofinder-pro-loses-the-base-station-takes-us-to-geotaggi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atp-photofinder-pro-loses-the-base-station-takes-us-to-geotaggi/May 30th 2009 12:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atp-photofinder-pro-loses-the-base-station-takes-us-to-geotaggi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/atp-photofinder-pro-loses-the-base-station-takes-us-to-geotaggi/]]>Jul 4th 2009 8:14AM