GPS in Pentax DSLR [Re: New Pentax Stuff Announced (nothing major)]

2011-02-08 Thread Bruce Walker
On 11-02-08 6:42 AM, Rob Studdert wrote: On 8 February 2011 09:54, John Celion...@neovenator.com wrote: Optio WG-1 (replaces the W90, most likely) http://www.pentaximaging.com/digital-camera/Optio_WG-1_GPS_Yellow_Green/ All links found via Dario's posts on Facebook I'm most interested in

Re: GPS in Pentax DSLR [Re: New Pentax Stuff Announced (nothing major)]

2011-02-08 Thread Thibouille
This coule be cheaper... but test it before ;) https://sites.google.com/a/pentax.org.pl/tomaszkos/en/pk_tether 2011/2/8 Bruce Walker bruce.wal...@gmail.com: On 11-02-08 6:42 AM, Rob Studdert wrote: On 8 February 2011 09:54, John Celion...@neovenator.com  wrote: Optio WG-1 (replaces the W90,

Re: GPS in Pentax DSLR [Re: New Pentax Stuff Announced (nothing major)]

2011-02-08 Thread Collin Brendemuehl
[mailto:bruce.wal...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 8, 2011 08:49 AM To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' Subject: GPS in Pentax DSLR [Re: New Pentax Stuff Announced (nothing major)] On 11-02-08 6:42 AM, Rob Studdert wrote: On 8 February 2011 09:54, John Celion...@neovenator.com wrote: Optio WG-1

Re: GPS in Pentax DSLR [Re: New Pentax Stuff Announced (nothing major)]

2011-02-08 Thread Bruce Walker
On 11-02-08 9:07 AM, Thibouille wrote: This coule be cheaper... but test it before ;) https://sites.google.com/a/pentax.org.pl/tomaszkos/en/pk_tether Yes thanks, I looked at that project, but I prefer the WiFi solution for three reasons: - no wires to get tangled or trip me - WiFi is much,

Re: GPS in Pentax DSLR [Re: New Pentax Stuff Announced (nothing major)]

2011-02-08 Thread Bruce Walker
08:49 AM To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' Subject: GPS in Pentax DSLR [Re: New Pentax Stuff Announced (nothing major)] On 11-02-08 6:42 AM, Rob Studdert wrote: On 8 February 2011 09:54, John Celion...@neovenator.com wrote: Optio WG-1 (replaces the W90, most likely) http://www.pentaximaging.com

Re: GPS in Pentax DSLR [Re: New Pentax Stuff Announced (nothing major)]

2011-02-08 Thread Eric Featherstone
On 8 February 2011 14:33, Bruce Walker bruce.wal...@gmail.com wrote: On 11-02-08 9:27 AM, Collin Brendemuehl wrote: Be aware, though, that they are battery hogs. Big time. (this from personal experience) Can the WiFi stuff can be disabled (ie powered-off, like in an iPod Touch) when

Re: GPS in Pentax DSLR [Re: New Pentax Stuff Announced (nothing major)]

2011-02-08 Thread Bruce Walker
On 11-02-08 9:37 AM, Eric Featherstone wrote: On 8 February 2011 14:33, Bruce Walkerbruce.wal...@gmail.com wrote: On 11-02-08 9:27 AM, Collin Brendemuehl wrote: Be aware, though, that they are battery hogs. Big time. (this from personal experience) Can the WiFi stuff can be disabled (ie

Re: GPS in Pentax DSLR [Re: New Pentax Stuff Announced (nothing major)]

2011-02-08 Thread Igor Roshchin
2011/2/8 Bruce Walker bruce.walker at gmail.com: Actually, you can have that now if you pop in an Eye-Fi Pro X2 8GB SDHC card. Has a built-in GPS, as well as the WiFi that is its primary function. Street price about $120. http://www.eye.fi/products/prox2 I'm considering one because it

Re: GPS in Pentax DSLR [Re: New Pentax Stuff Announced (nothing major)]

2011-02-08 Thread AlunFoto
2011/2/8 Bruce Walker bruce.wal...@gmail.com: - WiFi is much, *much* speedier than USB Are you sure, Bruce? The card is specified to utilise the 802.11n WiFi standard, which according to Wikipedia will give 100 Mbit/s. AFAIK, the USB2 supports 480 Mbit/s. Jostein --

Re: GPS in Pentax DSLR [Re: New Pentax Stuff Announced (nothing major)]

2011-02-08 Thread Thibouille
Thouse from Houston won't be tagged, those from Boston will tagged but how? Geoloc on the net is AFAIK VERY imprecise. If it is just to get the town name, not very useful, really. 2011/2/8 Igor Roshchin s...@komkon.org: 2011/2/8 Bruce Walker bruce.walker at gmail.com: Actually, you can have

Re: GPS in Pentax DSLR [Re: New Pentax Stuff Announced (nothing major)]

2011-02-08 Thread Thibouille
http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fsourceforge.net%2Fprojects%2Fpkremote%2Fsa=Dsntz=1usg=AFrqEzeNY2p55vkIKITaYpYKXLYWqBr6cw Linux as well for PKRemote but does it support all cameras I dunno. 2011/2/8 Bruce Walker bruce.wal...@gmail.com: On 11-02-08 9:07 AM, Thibouille wrote: This coule

Re: GPS in Pentax DSLR [Re: New Pentax Stuff Announced (nothing major)]

2011-02-08 Thread Eric Featherstone
That's not really how it works. Eye-fi uses skyhook's database. There's an explanation of how that was created here: http://www.skyhookwireless.com/howitworks/ In Igor's example the photos would be tagged as being taken in Houston, even though the Wi-Fi wasn't free. All eye-fi needs is the Wi-Fi

Re: GPS in Pentax DSLR [Re: New Pentax Stuff Announced, (nothing major)]

2011-02-08 Thread John Sessoms
From: Bruce Walker On 11-02-08 9:27 AM, Collin Brendemuehl wrote: Be aware, though, that they are battery hogs. Big time. (this from personal experience) Can the WiFi stuff can be disabled (ie powered-off, like in an iPod Touch) when shooting in the field where all you need is the GPS

Re: GPS in Pentax DSLR [Re: New Pentax Stuff Announced (nothing major)]

2011-02-08 Thread Bruce Walker
On 11-02-08 10:22 AM, AlunFoto wrote: 2011/2/8 Bruce Walkerbruce.wal...@gmail.com: - WiFi is much, *much* speedier than USB Are you sure, Bruce? The card is specified to utilise the 802.11n WiFi standard, which according to Wikipedia will give 100 Mbit/s. AFAIK, the USB2 supports 480 Mbit/s.

Re: GPS in Pentax DSLR [Re: New Pentax Stuff Announced (nothing major)]

2011-02-08 Thread Charles Robinson
On Feb 8, 2011, at 9:15, Thibouille wrote: Thouse from Houston won't be tagged, those from Boston will tagged but how? Geoloc on the net is AFAIK VERY imprecise. If it is just to get the town name, not very useful, really. ..and it really only gives you the position of your access provider.

Re: GPS in Pentax DSLR [Re: New Pentax Stuff Announced, (nothing major)]

2011-02-08 Thread John Sessoms
The Houston photos should be tagged as well. It doesn't seem like it requires login to the wi-fi network to capture the address Eye-fi uses to generate location data. The network's address just has to be in Skyhook's database. From: Thibouille Thouse from Houston won't be tagged, those from

Re: GPS in Pentax DSLR [Re: New Pentax Stuff Announced (nothing major)]

2011-02-08 Thread John Francis
On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 09:47:39AM -0600, Charles Robinson wrote: On Feb 8, 2011, at 9:15, Thibouille wrote: Thouse from Houston won't be tagged, those from Boston will tagged but how? Geoloc on the net is AFAIK VERY imprecise. If it is just to get the town name, not very useful, really.

Re: GPS in Pentax DSLR [Re: New Pentax Stuff Announced (nothing major)]

2011-02-08 Thread AlunFoto
2011/2/8 Bruce Walker bruce.wal...@gmail.com: The wires support 480Mbps, yes, but once you load up the entire USB driver stack the resulting actual in-use speed is much less than that.  Have you ever timed USB2 xfers?  One word for them: abysmal. Call them what you like, Bruce... :-) We are

Re: GPS in Pentax DSLR [Re: New Pentax Stuff Announced (nothing major)]

2011-02-08 Thread Charles Robinson
On Feb 8, 2011, at 11:12, John Francis wrote: On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 09:47:39AM -0600, Charles Robinson wrote: ..and it really only gives you the position of your access provider. Any auto-locate software which I run while at my house tells me I'm in a suburb 20 miles away... because

Re: GPS in Pentax DSLR [Re: New Pentax Stuff Announced (nothing major)]

2011-02-08 Thread Bruce Walker
On 11-02-08 12:19 PM, AlunFoto wrote: However I find that the throughput is far less than the theoretical max for the protocol. When copying files from my laptop to the PC, connecting through the wireless network is just not an option. _that_ speed is abysmal. :-) Yeah, WiFi can be terrible.

Re: GPS in Pentax DSLR [Re: New Pentax Stuff Announced (nothing major)]

2011-02-08 Thread Eric Featherstone
On 8 February 2011 17:19, AlunFoto alunf...@gmail.com wrote: It's kinda hard to catch what the guy in the video is saying, g but my impression is that the five second uploads are from jpegs. I also get the impression that he change to raw files about 3 minutes into the video. The upload times

Re: GPS in Pentax DSLR [Re: New Pentax Stuff Announced (nothing major)]

2011-02-08 Thread Thibouille
Alright, but if said changes or access point moves or there's no access point in sight it is useless. Le mardi 8 février 2011, John Francis jo...@panix.com a écrit : On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 09:47:39AM -0600, Charles Robinson wrote: On Feb 8, 2011, at 9:15, Thibouille wrote: Thouse from

Re: GPS in Pentax DSLR [Re: New Pentax Stuff Announced (nothing major)]

2011-02-08 Thread AlunFoto
2011/2/8 Bruce Walker bruce.wal...@gmail.com: Well, you've beaten me with your superior math skillz there, Jostein. :-)  I A first for me, I think. :-) But I still like no wires! :-) It's definately less hassle. :-) Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com

Re: GPS in Pentax DSLR [Re: New Pentax Stuff Announced (nothing major)]

2011-02-08 Thread steve harley
On 2011-02-08 13:57 , Thibouille wrote: Alright, but if said changes or access point moves or there's no access point in sight it is useless. in most urban locations there are multiple access points in range so it's not too hard for Skyhook to figure out that one is no longer where it used

Re: GPS in Pentax DSLR [Re: New Pentax Stuff Announced (nothing major)]

2011-02-08 Thread Rob Studdert
On 9 February 2011 04:19, AlunFoto alunf...@gmail.com wrote: You have 802.11n base stations? Cool. :-) Only up to the g spec myself yet. However I find that the throughput is far less than the theoretical max for the protocol. When copying files from my laptop to the PC, connecting through

Re: GPS in Pentax DSLR [Re: New Pentax Stuff Announced (nothing major)]

2011-02-08 Thread Rob Studdert
On 9 February 2011 01:53, Bruce Walker bruce.wal...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I guess we're back at Rob Studdert's original lament of no GPS in a Pentax body.  Sorry, Rob. :-) No problem, I'm betting that integrating a real GPS module in a DSLR would not add significantly in the cost these days