+mtbearded1 Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 I just got a new Nikon D7100 which I already dearly love. It has a port to connect a GPS unit in order to geotag photos, something I would find very handy in my travels. But as near as I can tell from the manual, the only way to do this is to buy a unit from Nikon. I have a wonderful Garmin Montana 650t as well as my old e-Trex Legend, and see no reason to by anything else. Does anyone know if it's possible to connect the camera to the Garmin? Bryan in northwestern Montana mtbearded1 Quote Link to comment
Moun10Bike Posted February 19, 2015 Share Posted February 19, 2015 What I do is record a track in my Garmin while taking photos and download the GPX when done. Then, I geotag the photos all at once afterwards using the GPX file and Nikon's ViewNX 2 software. I find that much easier than having to hook up a GPS unit to the camera directly. Quote Link to comment
kylekai Posted March 2, 2015 Share Posted March 2, 2015 There are various apps for geotagging your photos on your computer. For example, if you use a Mac there's Photo GeoTag. Quote Link to comment
+AustinMN Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 (edited) What I do is record a track in my Garmin while taking photos and download the GPX when done. Then, I geotag the photos all at once afterwards using the GPX file and Nikon's ViewNX 2 software. I find that much easier than having to hook up a GPS unit to the camera directly. I do something similar, but I use GPicSync. I learned to keep my GPSr and camera physically away from each other. A set of carefully designed experiments proved that the GPSr introduced a small amount of noise in the pictures. But what the experiments did that I did not anticipate is explain why my GPSr would sometimes go haywire, showing me walking across the lake at 45 miles an hour (72 KPH), only to come back a few minutes later. I have replaced both camera and GPSr today and they seem to cause a lot less interference with each other, but I still keep them at least a foot apart when in use, and I would never physically attach a GPSr to a camera. Austin Edited May 1, 2015 by AustinMN Quote Link to comment
+geodarts Posted May 2, 2015 Share Posted May 2, 2015 (edited) I learned to keep my GPSr and camera physically away from each other. A set of carefully designed experiments proved that the GPSr introduced a small amount of noise in the pictures. But what the experiments did that I did not anticipate is explain why my GPSr would sometimes go haywire, showing me walking across the lake at 45 miles an hour (72 KPH), only to come back a few minutes later. The cameras I use have a built in GPSr that makes geotagging easy if I remember to turn it on. The Canon 6d also can connect to an external gpsr, but I have not tried that. Before I do, I am interested in your experiments since I sometimes use a gpsr and generally have a camera close by. How close was the camera to the gpsr when you noticed that the problems occurred - within a foot to be sure, but it seems that with your initial set, it might have caused problems even further than that. Edited May 2, 2015 by geodarts Quote Link to comment
+AustinMN Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 (edited) I learned to keep my GPSr and camera physically away from each other. A set of carefully designed experiments proved that the GPSr introduced a small amount of noise in the pictures. But what the experiments did that I did not anticipate is explain why my GPSr would sometimes go haywire, showing me walking across the lake at 45 miles an hour (72 KPH), only to come back a few minutes later. The cameras I use have a built in GPSr that makes geotagging easy if I remember to turn it on. The Canon 6d also can connect to an external gpsr, but I have not tried that. Before I do, I am interested in your experiments since I sometimes use a gpsr and generally have a camera close by. How close was the camera to the gpsr when you noticed that the problems occurred - within a foot to be sure, but it seems that with your initial set, it might have caused problems even further than that. The GPSr causesd camera noise at about 3 inches (7.5 CM). The camera reduced the accuracy of the GPSr at about 2 feet (about 0.67 meters), and made it incapapable of getting a fix at all by 6 inches. As I said, both the GPSr and the camera have been replaced since then, and there is a lot less interference between the new units. I have not repeated the experiments to see if there is a problem threshold. Instead, I continue to carry them on different parts of my person. Austin Edited May 4, 2015 by AustinMN Quote Link to comment
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