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<blockquote data-quote="meteoloco" data-source="post: 468684" data-attributes="member: 39933"><p>Hello everybody,</p><p></p><p>I purchased a D5300 just a week ago. All good so far except GPS. As all users noted, sometimes the GPS is not locked when shooting a picture. Is a slow/bad GPS, even with assisted AGPS files.</p><p></p><p>But I found a solution that is perfect for me and do not need to buy an external GPS. I use my smartphone. Their GPS is far better than D5300 one. Let me explain how.</p><p></p><p>There are a lot of apps for IOS and Android to log tracks. After some tests I use 'oruxmaps' . When I want to take pictures or start a travel I active the track logging in my smartphone. It spend very few of my smartphone battery.</p><p></p><p>Then we can take the photos we want, no worry about GPS being locked in D5300. Once we finished the photo session we stop the track logging. Save the pictures in a PC. Also save the smartphone track. I set my oruxmaps to log tracks in GPX format.</p><p></p><p>Then, there are some apps to extract GPS info from the tracks and insert it in the metadata of our pictures. They use time interpolation and the exact time our D5300 shoot the pictures. I am a Linux user and use a script based in a swiss knife for all these tasks : 'exiftool'</p><p></p><p>In a click I got all my pictures properly geotagged. </p><p></p><p>Yes, I know It could be a complicated proccess for some users, but if works for me. And note it works for other digital cameras without GPS. Just we only need the camera clock well set and a smartphone. In case of D5300 there is no problem because its clock synced when the GPS is locked (an option in menu to achieve this).</p><p> </p><p>Hope it can help.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="meteoloco, post: 468684, member: 39933"] Hello everybody, I purchased a D5300 just a week ago. All good so far except GPS. As all users noted, sometimes the GPS is not locked when shooting a picture. Is a slow/bad GPS, even with assisted AGPS files. But I found a solution that is perfect for me and do not need to buy an external GPS. I use my smartphone. Their GPS is far better than D5300 one. Let me explain how. There are a lot of apps for IOS and Android to log tracks. After some tests I use 'oruxmaps' . When I want to take pictures or start a travel I active the track logging in my smartphone. It spend very few of my smartphone battery. Then we can take the photos we want, no worry about GPS being locked in D5300. Once we finished the photo session we stop the track logging. Save the pictures in a PC. Also save the smartphone track. I set my oruxmaps to log tracks in GPX format. Then, there are some apps to extract GPS info from the tracks and insert it in the metadata of our pictures. They use time interpolation and the exact time our D5300 shoot the pictures. I am a Linux user and use a script based in a swiss knife for all these tasks : 'exiftool' In a click I got all my pictures properly geotagged. Yes, I know It could be a complicated proccess for some users, but if works for me. And note it works for other digital cameras without GPS. Just we only need the camera clock well set and a smartphone. In case of D5300 there is no problem because its clock synced when the GPS is locked (an option in menu to achieve this). Hope it can help. [/QUOTE]
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