Long ago and far away (specifically, Northern Italy, 2007) I took a drive from our B&B lodging around Lago Garda, a beautiful region favored as a vacation spot since the Middle Ages if not earlier. Several small fishing villages around the lake. I of course stopped at every village and took shots of the fishing boats and other boats in the marinas & dock areas.
Two weeks later, back home, scrolling through the images on my computer, I kept thinking to myself: “Self, where were you when you took that photo? Which village was it? How can I properly caption the image if I don’t know the name of the village!” That’s why I bought a Garmin and used that to track my location until cameras started to provide GPS tracking directly or via the O-1. Most recently, yesterday I was working on a re-cap of our trip to the Norwegian coast last March. Our published itinerary often did not agree with what/where actually happened. Weather, ship propulsion issues, etc. The embedded GPS in the metadata was hugely helpful! Stan > On Jan 21, 2024, at 6:08 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <godfreydigio...@me.com> wrote: > > Soooo … All this discussion of GPS equipped cameras … I'm curious: Why do we > need GPS location information in our photographs? > > Oh, I can see some uses for it, for specific purposes, but in general … I > don't know why I'd want it. > I figure when I want GPS location info, I just snap a photo with my iPhone at > the same time I take a picture with any other camera, then copy-paste the GPS > location information from the iPhone image into the other camera's photo. I > haven't used it more than once or twice in the past ten years. > > G > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
