In the Tail

Exploring the niche consumer

Sony GPSCS1KA GPS

March 7th, 2007

When I go camping or hiking I want to remember where I was when I took a picture, so I started looking around for a camera with a built-in GPS unit. I didn’t find what I was looking for, but I did find something close. The Sony GPS-CS1KA GPS image tracker calculates and records the time, date and location of each picture you snap (well sort of). What it does is constantly record your position every 15 seconds with accurate time information, then when you take your pictures off your camera it compares the Datetime recorded in the Exif 2.1 header to determine where you were when the picture was taken. It’s a pretty cleaver approach, but honestly with GPS chipset prices coming down so low, building it directly into the cameras makes sense.

Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,346 in Camera & Photo

If anyone has one of these, can you tell me how you like it?

Before you buy one of these see my other article about robogeo

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