what brand gps for my nikon d 90 camera

Will & Denise

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I have been looking at several gps for my Nikon d 90 camera Jobo and nikon. Can anyone tell me what is the best gps for the nikon d 90 camera . I want to take photo in the state of tennessee Smokie Mountain ect North Carolin and Virginia
 

Joseph Bautsch

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I have the D90 and have used the Nikon GPS unit for the last year. I can't say it's the best as it's the only one I've used. I use it with Aperture 3 and Google Maps. I used it on a a whale watching cruse and recorded the GPS locations for over 900 shots over three hours without a miss. On that same trip I got over 4k shots most all of them with GPS data. This one uses the camera battery for its power. This does drain the battery a little faster but I did not find this to be a problem or even inconvenient. On the whale watching cruse I used one battery and still had a 50% charge on the second one after we docked.
 

jdeg

^ broke something
Staff member
I'm surprised that cameras aren't getting built in gps chips yet. Every new cell phone I see has a gps chip in it and can geo-tag the photos it takes. Why such a big unit for dslr's that attaches to the hot shoe?
 

Joseph Bautsch

New member
If they did that then they would not be able to sell $200 GPS units. All it will take is for one of the camera companies to put one in the camera and they all will quickly follow suit.
 
I'm surprised that cameras aren't getting built in gps chips yet. Every new cell phone I see has a gps chip in it and can geo-tag the photos it takes. Why such a big unit for dslr's that attaches to the hot shoe?

Personally, I don't think I'd buy a camera with a built-in GPS system. The more "bells and whistles" you throw into a camera that are NOT specifically related to the image capture, the more you're having to compromise. While some may be of a different opinion, I really am not interested in the new "video capture" mode - if I want to take video, I'm going to purchase a video camera - likewise, I wouldn't really purchase a video camera in hopes of removing single-frame images from it and calling that a still-camera.
 

Browncoat

Senior Member
Personally, I don't think I'd buy a camera with a built-in GPS system.

+1

I wouldn't buy one either...waste of money. I Geotag a lot of my photos just by keeping a notepad handy when I'm out and about. I usually apply the rule of horseshoes, where close enough counts. It's not really necessary to have exact longitude and latitude, right down to the exact minute of degrees.
 
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