The Smartphone vs. the Camera Industry

Re:The Smartphone vs. the Camera Industry by reaperducer on Friday November 01, 2019 @10:51PM (#21425590)

Not to mention how every phone camera geotags every image automatically, but that's still a bulky $500 add-on for DSLRs, if it's even available for your model.

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Re:The Smartphone vs. the Camera Industry by kenhwang on Saturday November 02, 2019 @12:47AM (#21425945)

My 5 year old DSLR has GPS tagging for every photo. I mostly keep it off because it kills the battery. I suspect most serious photographers don't care about geotagging.

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Re:The Smartphone vs. the Camera Industry by reaperducer on Saturday November 02, 2019 @12:22PM (#21428488)

I suspect most serious photographers don't care about geotagging.

If by "serious" you mean "studio," then you're probably right.

But there are plenty of "serious" photographers that find geotagging very useful. Newspaper photographers, travel photographers, scientific photography, etc...

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Re:The Smartphone vs. the Camera Industry by ghaff on Saturday November 02, 2019 @03:26AM (#21426347)

I guess it depends what you mean by serious. I often find it very useful to know where a picture was taken. Direction would be nice too.

Battery life is a general problem for GPS but if I can have GPS on a watch I’m not sure it would drain a big DSLR camera battery all that much.

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Re:The Smartphone vs. the Camera Industry by mantoto on Saturday November 02, 2019 @08:24AM (#21427249)

We had 0 powerissues with our dslr's because they don't do GPS. Could not care less about it to be honest.

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Re:The Smartphone vs. the Camera Industry by dekhn on Saturday November 02, 2019 @10:13AM (#21427804)

Hmm, I paid $50 for one (Canon DSLR, which is one of the most common). It fits in the hot shoe and is 70mmx50mmx30mm. I don't consider that extremely bulky (I'm sure there are smaller ones that cost a bit more).

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Re:The Smartphone vs. the Camera Industry by nradov on Friday November 01, 2019 @11:13PM (#21425658)

Ideally cameras should pick up location from the shooter's smartphone through a Bluetooth link.

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Re:The Smartphone vs. the Camera Industry by floatboth on Saturday November 02, 2019 @08:00AM (#21427146)

Photo management tools like digiKam can pick up locations from GPX tracks (e.g. recorded with OsmAnd on your phone) and sync with the photos by time.

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Re:The Smartphone vs. the Camera Industry by bmarquez on Friday November 01, 2019 @11:35PM (#21425729)

The Sony a6400 does this if the Sony app is running on the smartphone, but it drains the camera's battery fairly quickly.

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Re:The Smartphone vs. the Camera Industry by mschuster91 on Saturday November 02, 2019 @06:46AM (#21426940)

For what its worth the Sony hot-shoe actually has dedicated GPS pins but there is no GPS mouse available (and Sony won't react if you ask for specs). The only thing that is available are external GPS recorders which you have to read out and semi-automatically merge with your photo library. What an absolute clusterfuck.

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Re:The Smartphone vs. the Camera Industry by fock on Saturday November 02, 2019 @08:20AM (#21427231)

did you ever go on a hike without mobile coverage and then check the tags vs. actual location (noted from an actual map, because Google Maps won't work)

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