JOBO photoGPS - GPS tracking logger

Manufacturer : Jobo Model : photoGPS ASIN : B001OBRM8W Price : 179.99$ Last Price : 152.99$(Discount 15.00083338% See Special Offers Product Description Capturing geo-data incl. actual address has never been so simple! Mount the JOBO photoGPS on your camera's hot-shoe and capture the geo-data of each picture by the click of your camera. Coordinate the geo-data and your pictures o Most Helpful Customer Reviews 59 of 59 people found the following review helpful: Very Good but not Great This review is from: JOBO photoGPS - GPS tracking logger (Electronics) The GPS in this unit is fast and accurate, which is the primary reason you pay twice what other units cost. It typically takes only a second for the little green light to shine, indicating a lock when outdoors. It has a "hint" button that you can press before entering a building. This will be used if a satellite lock is impossible. The software supplied with the unit works pretty well. It not only tags the long and lat, it does altitude also. And it will also insert points of interest into your file. It also supports RAW, which is one of the reasons I bought it, by creating XMP sidecar files that Adobe products can use. There are two problems with this, though. The first, and the worst, is that it creates new XMP files; it doesn't insert the geotag data into existing files. That means that after downloading with the Adobe downloader, you have to put off looking at your photos until running the JOBO PhotoGPS program. If you use Bridge or ACR first, your changes are wiped out. This is a major oversight. The next big problem is you MUST have an Internet connection to run the software. It does make sense, because the PhotoGPS program has to query an online database for POI info. However, you cannot disable this. This mean that if you are on safari, etc., you can neither download your GPS data or work with your images. The capacity of the unit is 1024 captures, which means about two days of heavy shooting. It is doubly annoying that the database doesn't include Chile, the place I bought the GPS to work in. And even so, I must be online to geotag. (The database does include the USA, and the database is quite thorough there.) Lacks: (1) No online manuals. I had to wait to get the product to see how it actually worked. And once I installed the program, it gave me a link to the manual which is on the JOBO website. It should be freely available. (2) No list of areas covered by the data base. (3) The unit's flash drive isn't visible. Again, you must be online for the software to geotag. Serious problem: As another reviewer said, though the unit will fit cameras with a hot shoe (I have a 5D Mark II), it is quite loose. Sling the camera over your shoulder and the unit goes flying. I've resorted to tape. JOBO should have put some rubber on the foot of the unit or come up with some other securing measure. My unit has already fallen about 5 times, gotten lost in the car twice, and broken open once. Happily, it snapped together. Good point: When download completes, there will be a KLM file in your tagged directory. You can use this file, so I'm told, with GPS Babel and other programs to do geotagging outside of the supplied software. Would I recommend it? Yes, with cavets. 30 of 30 people found the following review helpful: Jobo PhotoGPS Finally Released    This review is from: JOBO photoGPS - GPS tracking logger (Electronics) I have been waiting for this device for the last 2 years since it was announced at PMA 07. In the meantime, I tried 3 other GPS taggers. None were satisfactory. I received shipment of mine last week from B&H. It was worth the wait. There is only a second or two lag time for the GPS to fire. Sometimes it took as much as 15 minutes for other GPS devices to cold start a location. The process is straightforward. Mount the PhotoGPS on the hotshoe. Take pictures. Download photos. Open the PhotoGPS software. Connect the GPS device via USB. Download data from the GPS. Load the photos into the software. Automatically tag the photos. Raw photos are saved to .XMP sidecar and JPEGs are written directly to the File. Tag accuracy is good. Accuracy is stated as w/in 50 meters. I tested the files in downtown Manhattan last week and the accuracy was usually much better -- dead-on in a large majority of the cases. Edits can be made to the tags. I use Adobe Lightroom to download my photos. Thus, I have to remember to have Lightroom Read the Metadata from the files to update the Lightroom data and Longitude, Latitude, Altitude, Location, City, State, and Country data are all automatically tagged. Lightroom allows one to see the GPS data on a Google Map by clicking on the coordinates. Any retagging can be done with a free Lightroom plug-in (Geoencode) by jeffrey Freidl. He also has a Proximity Search plug-in for Lightroom. See http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies I found 2 minor problems: 1. The device fits loosely in the hotshoe of both my Canon EOS D40 and my Canon G10. I solved the problem by putting some glue on the side rims outside the slider and let it dry. This gives the hotshoe connector a bit of grab, so the GPS device no longer slips off. 2. The internal flash is not triggered when the flash is utilized, so the GPS device must be removed in order to use the internal flash. If you take a picture before or after removing the device, the software will interpolate the gps coordinates. Also there is a GeoHint button to help assist tagging when inside or when the device is off. I would give the Jobo PhtoGPS a "5" rating if one did not have to remove the device to use the flash. 33 of 35 people found the following review helpful: Not ready for Mac/Aperture - more trouble than it's worth.    This review is from: JOBO photoGPS - GPS tracking logger (Electronics) Bought the Jobo Photo GPS for use with my canon cameras. The mac software looked promising until I tried to make some use of the GPS data in Apple's Aperture. There doesn't seem to be a way to get the GPS data into the program. A quick experiment with Adobe Lightroom confirmed that worked fairly well. The question you have to ask yourself is how much fooling around are you willing to put up with in order to have geo-tagged photos? First you have to charge the unit with the supplied USB cord. Then you have to use up the hot shoe on your camera. The unit doesn't seem too well connected to my Cannon 1Ds Mk III or 5D. Extra care needs to be taken so that it doesn't go flying off. Then you have to copy the images to your hard drive and run their utility before importing to a compatible photo library program. I think I'm going to wait until the next generation of digital cameras has GPS built in. Taking great photos is complicated enough without adding more gadgets. Most Recent Customer Reviews Didn't last very long... I bought this device to geotag images for work, during some days I may shoot more than 1000 images, so the limit of just over 1000 GPS points is to low for me. by Cat More than I expected Seldom... would I say that about a product. Was worried about software working... It syncing properly with the photos. If it would work with Bridge and Google maps. by shadowmason I LOVE THE JOBO PHOTOGPS!!! I travel a lot so I really needed an easy to use GPS system. This is it! The JOBO PhotoGPS is very easy to use, the battery lasts forever, and the accuracy is 100% each and... by Lawrence Williams Doesn't work with Sony A100 I've bought a Jobo GPS for my Sony DSLR A100,and a Sony Hot shoe adaptor. The GPS can't make what it was supposed to do, Geo Tag the places while you are taking the pictures ( it... by Marcelo A. Cruz Doesn't work with the Panasonic GH1, check compatibility before you buy If you buy this device and intend to use it with the Panasonic GH1 you will be disappointed. Attaching this device to the flash hotshoe makes the camera take underexposed photos... by Ahmad Alhashemi Nice concept but many flaws Although seducing in many aspects, the photoGPS is not well thought in my opinion. I will let you judge from the list below. by Gregoire Dubois Does the job and loves to fly off your camera I have had this unit for over 6 months now, if I had not tethered it to my camera with a lens keeper, I would have lost it many times over. by J. Bock Fatal Design Flaw I'd like to tell everybody how well this product worked, but I lost it before I could really find out. It has a fatal design flaw (well,actually two). by Warren Capps Great but with the flaw of fitting very loosely The PhotoGPS does an excellent job of taking down the geocoordinates of where a picture was taken. But as someone else here has noted, it fits very, very loosely into the hot... by maskirovka Very fast, accurate and more I have a Nikon D90 and purchased a GP-1 to do the geotagging. The GP-1 was terrible. It could take more than 30 seconds to get a fix and worse yet was that very often it would not... by Scott Graudin

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