[DerrickStory]

I think your 2 cents are spot on, and in hindsight, I would include the iPhone 3G as one of the devices (omitting one of the others because of word count). My goal was to introduce new equipment that readers might not be as familiar with as the device that many are already carrying in their pockets. But as one editor as would say to me, "Never overlook the obvious."

[jhave]

Thanks KBeat. I know, but I was hoping for the Jobo software to allow me to use the GPS data stored on the device, but I can only access it via the Jobo software and export it as a KML file... That I can convert and then "marry" with my photos, but in this case I find that there are already too many steps in my workflow.

Hopefully Apple will provide XMP support in the next Aperture update...

[KBeat]

jhave said:

Hopefully Apple will provide XMP support in the next Aperture update...

Let's hope. I'd actually like to see them incorporate a "Places" type feature like they added to iPhoto. I don't use iPhoto much anymore, but that's pretty cool. Speaking of the next Aperture 3, I don't suppose our former "Inside Aperture" host has heard anything through the grapevine? Apple is notoriously tight lipped, but I'd love to know that Aperture 3 is indeed in the works.

[jhave]

Yes, it would be nice with some information on the next Aperture update :-)

[heimdall]

Will the PhotoGPS work off the hot shoe--i.e. triggered manually? I want it both for a Sony Alpha DSLR (for which I have the adapter) and a Casio Exilim--I would be more likely to be carrying the latter with me due to its compactness, but of course it doesn't have a hot shoe.

[jhave]

afaik, it only works only mounted on the hot shoe of your camera.

[denke]

The article says that the PhotoTrackr lets you shoot in RAW or JPEG. Did you actually use the PhotoTrackr to geotag RAW photos and then export them to iPhoto? That would so work for me, but I find the GiSTEQ website confusing on this topic, and if it won't geotag RAW files for export I don't want it. If it will, you'll have ended a search that has taken too much of my time already.

[denke]

The article says that the Jobo photoGPS and Gisteq PhotoTrackr "Both have Mac compatible software and let you shoot in Raw or JPEG." But I queried GiSTEQ last Friday and today got a reply: "Thanks for your email. Unfortunately the RAW support is only available in the windows version only. The Raw support for Mac is still under development. Please let us know if you have any other questions. Best Regards, Tech Support GiSTEQ". :(

[hswt]

I recently purchased the Gisteq PhotoTrackr Lite a lot on the strength of this article. I have a question. Did the author of this article actually test any of these devices or just take the company's press release and summarize it?
Basically here is my hands on experience with the PhotoTrakr Lite.
First, the included printed manual and software are for Windows, with the exception of a short paragraph on basic setup for the device. There is no mention anywhere that Mac software and a manual are available on the company website.The online manual is horrible, written by someone who has only a limited knowledge of the English language.
On to the device itself. After 5 or 6 hours of trying to get this thing to work my conclusion was that absolutely nothing about this device worked. After turning it on and taking a few pictures around my house and downloading everything into the software, it was not able to Geo tag any of the photos. I suspect this was because the year that showed up in the recorded track was 2037. Strangely, in the settings panel the correct time and year were displayed. The GPS data was also completely wrong. On one brief stroll around my house located in San Jose CA the device recorded me as being in THREE completely different locations around the world, in the South Pacific near Tahiti (I Wish!), about halfway between New Zealand and the Antarctic, and finally somewhere off the west coast of Africa.
I did send several emails to the company but after looking a bit deeper at some consumer reviews of this product I decided that too was probably a waste of time and I returned this item. Further study of those reviews would indicate that the majority of people came to the same conclusion as I did, that the Gisteq PotoTrakr Lite is a piece of garbage.
Oh yeah, one more thing, every time I tried to open the battery cover I broke my thumbnail. And about the third time I opened it the little piece of plastic that you were supposed to hook your fingernail on broke off (I was trying to see if reseting the device would get it to work, it didn't)
If you did test this device before writing this article, then maybe you got one of the few devices that these guys make that works. There were some people who were happy with it in the reviews I read, but mostly all agree with me on the lack of quality.

[GPSFuzzi]

Jobo GPS has the disatvantage that you must place it on the hotshoe and you must find a computer with Jobo software and every 1000 pics a good internet connection to the jobo server to process the collected gps-raw-data to real coordinates.
Easy if you are in the bush?!?!
Nikon D5000, D90, D200-700, D2x-3x are GPS-ready! Connect a Nikon GP-1 or the better features Solmeta Geotagger N2 Kompass and the Dawntech Pro Logger. That's it. For RAW and JPEG. No post-processing ... good infos [in German, but you will find the lnks anyway] on http://www.gps-camera.eu
Cheers
Seb