Jobo doubles and quadruples the storage on its photoGPS geotaggers

It took a heck of a long time for Jobo to get its first photoGPS hot-shoe-occupying geotagger to market, and now that model is getting a pair of successors offering two and four times the coordinate-keeping internal storage (2,000 and 4,000 locations, respectively). The new models are appropriately named photoGPS 2 and photoGPS 4, both of which capture your current coords whenever you snap a shot and then inject those waypoints into the photos via software when you pull down the pics. That suite is also getting an update to identify POIs that were near your scenic overlooks, a feature that, honestly, doesn't seem particularly useful. The photoGPS 2 and 4 are set to ship by the end of this month and will set you back €99 ($125) or €129 ($175).

[BluechipJ Posted Apr 20th 2010 10:53AM]

Boo. Direct geotagging is better.

I've been using the EasyTag (http://www.easytagger.ca/) for months. Free, open-source software, microSD memory card, multi-model compatible and records your location every 10 seconds so you can use the GPS track/log with a regular point-and-shoot camera.

[xtreker15 Posted Apr 20th 2010 11:21AM]

I have been waiting 2 years for the first one to come out and now I hear its been out and they are updating it.

[Kevo Mac Posted Apr 20th 2010 11:21AM]

Until the first parties add GPS directly into their cameras (which they need to do!) I'm sticking with a $3 iPhone GPS data logger app.

I'm not willing to give up the hotshoe and this is still just a workaround until GPS is embedded in the camera and the EXIF. I'm not willing to fork over $125 on something marginally better.

[rcappo Posted Apr 20th 2010 11:28AM]

What's the point of taking up the hotshoe unless it directly writes the lat/lon to the metadata when you take the picture? I guess you won't have to worry about battery life, but it prevents you from using a flash.

I am looking into all the different ways to possibly do this, but have found nothing really good yet. In 2010, every camera should have a GPS chip built into it...

Now, if it came with a cord that still allows another flash to be connected to the hot shoe... (Or is this battery powered and doesn't need to be connected to the hot shoe?)

[ulwur Posted Apr 20th 2010 12:26PM]

I'm using the GPS app in my Cell to save a GPX-trace of my ramblings while photographing.

Then Jeffrey Friedl's Geocoding plugin for Lightroom nicely pairs the positions from the GPX File with the Exif timestamps from the images.

As long as you check the clock in the camera it works perfectly!

[rcappo Posted Apr 20th 2010 6:09PM]

@ulwur

What cell phone do you have, and what is the name of the app?

[Mike V Posted Apr 20th 2010 8:10PM]

They should put a hot shoe on top of the thing so that you can still use a flash.

[CL Posted Apr 20th 2010 8:25PM]

*sigh* why can't we get something like this for canon bodies? having to use an external logger and sync the gpx file to photos in post sucks!

[falafeLover Posted Apr 20th 2010 10:17PM]

I don't understand why you would buy this for a DSLR (especially the one shown in the pic) when you can buy one that tags the images in-camera: http://www.dawntech.hk/di-GPS/mini_3l.htm