A GPS-equipped camera knows where you’ve been

Got the Whole World Smaller, more efficient GPS chips made it possible for Nikon to add location tracking. Greg Neumaier

Remember that beautiful sunset photo from Jamaica? Or was it the Bahamas? No worries—the first high-end camera with a built-in GPS receiver keeps track for you.

All digital cameras attach data such as shutter speed to the image file; the Nikon P6000 also adds latitude and longitude. Photo-sharing sites such as flickr.com, picasa.com and Nikon’s mypicturetown.com read the data when you upload pictures and show their location on a global map. If you want to keep your favorite fishing hole a secret, simply turn off the GPS.

Some cameraphones already have GPS, but their grainy shots are no match for photos from the P6000, with its 13.5-megapixel sensor, 4x zoom lens, and low-light shooting up to ISO 6400 sensitivity. Now you can spend more time admiring your photos and less time wondering where you took them.

Nikon CoolPix P6000

Lens: 28mm wide to 112mm telephoto
Controls: Aperture, shutter, full manual, full automatic
Expansion: External flash shoe
Price: $500
Get it: nikonusa.com

4 Comments

Neato!

WOW! How are they going to top this one?

To make it useful to field work:

Beyond gps location, they should also include direction and elevation of the camera point.

Pretty soon GPS will be a standard feature on digital cameras. Poor Eye-Fi didn't have long in the sun, did they?

http://www.gizmosforgeeks.com/2008/07/01/eye-fi-explore-automatically-geo-tags-your-photos/



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