I stopped bothering with the Canon app when it started asking me to create an account to use it...
Often when I'm using my 'real' cameras I'm also taking at least some photos with my phone, which tags photos with GPS coordinates. Later, I'll sync those coordinates manually to the real camera files and fill in the gaps as needed. But yes, it would be nice to have on-camera GPS in more cameras other than just the top one or two models.
Jeff Nolten wrote:
I just have to say that using my iPhone and Camera Connect App for GPS has been very reliable these last few years. It used to drop out regularly but now it easily connects to my Rs and G1X3 without problem. Just remember to put the camera in airplane mode when you put it away after a trip or the battery will drain over a month or two.
INPUT EB-1´s first sentence here. I´m a stubborn old fart still on a dumb-phone and apps are the problems of others. Should have gathered more GP-E2 mushrooms while they grew. Who would have thought that tech would evolve backwards.
Jeff Nolten wrote:
I just have to say that using my iPhone and Camera Connect App for GPS has been very reliable these last few years. It used to drop out regularly but now it easily connects to my Rs and G1X3 without problem. Just remember to put the camera in airplane mode when you put it away after a trip or the battery will drain over a month or two.
Maybe it's good on Apple, but the Android version was abysmal last year in September when I used it. I don't understand why the camera cannot employ some heartbeat checking and simply open big red text that GPS position updates had dropped out.
In many cases I had no GPS position at all, or one from morning stuck to all afternoon photos in a completely different location. And few maybe protocol bugs, showing my position once 10km and twice over 800km north (always direct north!) from the place I shot the pictures.
I just bought additional two second hand GP-E2s for one I lost.
Sorry for all your woes! I used to rely on my GP-E2 as well but the app is much more convenient since I always have it with me anyway. I recently learned that the app will update the camera's time and time zone as well. Something I always forget to do and then try to fix in post. Recent iPhones take pretty good images too if you use Adobe's Indigo app. Oh, sorry - another app.
GP-E2 can also update time. Personally I'd prefer the app if it worked well, even though it would have meant an increased battery consumption, since it would leave the hot shoe free and a mobile phone can in some cases use an additional positional info to nail the geographical position better... But GP-E2 seems to be more reliable so far, so it still wins...
It would be nice if Canon at least made a new small version to draw power from the new hot shoe, in the ST-E10 style.
Should have gathered more GP-E2 mushrooms while they grew. Who would have thought that tech would evolve backwards.
