Canon Patents Inaccurate EXIF Data for Shooters Concerned with Privacy
9 out of 10 adults in America believe that people are over-sharing sensitive personal information. One culprit is the GPS-enabled camera, which can reveal exactly where you were at a specific time by baking the information into photos. If you’re uncomfortable with how specific this EXIF data is, Canon has a solution: fuzzy accuracy. The...
Images and Impressions of Canon’s 5D Mark 3 HDR Feature: and Easy GPS in Lightroom 4
Good Morning Everyone, After getting yesterday's blog posted, we headed out to see the sights in Washington, DC area. Our first stop was at the Duncan Phillips Museum which was showing an exhibition entitled Snapshot: Painters and Photography, Bonnard...
Turn an Old GPS or Cell Phone Mount Into a Suction Cup Tripod
If you have an old mount for attaching a GPS or cell phone to your windshield, you can upcycle it into a suction cup tripod for your camera (just make sure it’s not the flimsy kind that falls off on its own). What you’ll need to do is flatten the mount surface and then install...
Canon 1D X Has Optional (and Pricey) Wi-Fi and GPS Add-ons
Remember the network and Wi-Fi icons in the Canon patent we shared yesterday? Well, they both appeared today in the Canon 1D X announcement, but only one of them is built in. The new DSLR offers a built-in gigabit Ethernet jack for ultra-fast data transfers, but wireless transfers will require an additional add-on: the WFT-E6A...
gps4cam for Android released – geotag your DSLR photos on you phone
Back in June, we told you about the great little iPhone app called GPS4cam – allowing you to use the gps unit in your iPhone to generate geotag data for your DSLR camera – well, now they’ve released the Android version so those of you who have been dying to get it can now jump...
Flickr Beefs Up Privacy with “Geofences”
Flickr introduced an innovative location-based privacy feature today called “geofences“. It’s a way of assigning default privacy settings to certain locations for geotagged photographs. For example, you can assign a geofence with a certain radius around your home, and automatically set those photos’ location data to only be visible to your friends and family. Each...
A simple solution for GPS encoding your non-gps photos – gps4cam
Are you looking for a simple solution to encoding the GPS location to your non-gps DSLR photos and are willing to spend $2.99 or so on a solution (and have an iPhone), then gps4cam is a handy iPhone application you should have. Until the DSLR makers decide to include GPS for encoding location information to...
Satellite Photographs Being Used to Cheat at Corn Mazes
This has got to be one of the saddest uses of imagery ever. The Daily Mail is reporting that iPhone owners in the UK are using satellite photos and GPS to cheat at getting out of corn mazes. By seeing their current location in a birds-eye view of the maze, visitors can quickly solve even...
Casio EX-H20G Uses Hybrid GPS System to Track Your Location
Just unveiled at Photokina, Casio’s new EXILIM EX-H20G point-and-shoot is a pretty ordinary 14.1 megapixel HD video-capable camera with a trick up its sleeve: a hybrid GPS system for geotagging your photos. Ordinarily cameras geotag your images with location based on signals from GPS satellites, but become oblivious to where you are if you move...
Man Creates World’s Largest Message Using GPS and 12K+ Miles of Driving
Here’s a method of scrawling gigantic messages that puts skywriting to shame: Nick Newcomen spent 30 days driving 12,238 miles across 30 states in a GPS-logger equipped car, tracing the message “Read Ayn Rand” across the face of the United States. Ayn Rand is a Russian-American novelist and philosopher who write two bestselling books (The...
Photography Gadgets
If you’re like me, you LOVE gadgetry. I adore miscellaneous little inventions and attachments and whatnots that are fun and easy to use. Many of them, while being novel and cool, may also increase productivity, provide added convenience, or improve photographic outcomes.
Here are a handful of gadgets that I’ve come across (many from...
Columbus V-900 geo tagger (Review)
My trip to Iceland was my first serious photo trip. And, since baby girl is coming soon, it will probably be the last one for a while too! Anyways, I seriously geared up for this trip and brought with me every single gadget I could think of.
The first of these gadget I want to talk...
