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soap said:
Exactly as if you were connected via the serial/accessory (10 pin) port. I have a buddy with one of these, it's slick.
http://www.aokatec.com/Product.html
Yeah, that's pretty awesome! Any other stuff you can do with the bluetooth—wireless camera control per chance?
I'd still want it internally along with a digital compass like the new point & shoot Sony HX5V!
I don't have any need for WiFi in my cameras, I'd rather have GPS built in.
WiFi, sure why not. Like Adam would like to have it with the ability to control the camera remotely, hate running long USB cables.
Integrated GPS okay too but I have a BT solution right now (foolography)so not so much in a hurry for it.
soap said:
Please expand this thought. I'm not sure at all where you're going with this.
I'm just saying if we have built-in GPS, all we have is built-in GPS. However, if we put in WiFi, we not only have the usual advantages of WiFi (like wireless data transfer) but can also integrate a GPS like the GPS of the Eye-Fi SD Card system.
EDIT: More specifically this link.
alphanikonrex said:
I'm just saying if we have built-in GPS, all we have is built-in GPS. However, if we put in WiFi, we not only have the usual advantages of WiFi (like wireless data transfer) but can also integrate a GPS like the GPS of the Eye-Fi SD Card system.EDIT: More specifically this link.
That's not GPS, and they go to great lengths to not say GPS. That's a Geotagging routine which notes what Wi-Fi access points are visible at the time a photo was taken. It then, after the fact, compares the list of found access points to Skyhook Wireless's http://www.skyhookwireless.com/ proprietary database and gives you a rough position.
Problems:
1 - Only works when you are in range of a broadcasting Wi-Fi access point (doesn't have to be an open AP nor do you need to be connected to it).
1b - Only when said AP has been mapped by Skyhook Wireless.
2 - Only accurate to a resolution dependent on the range of said Wi-Fi access point.
3 - Depends on access to Skyhook Wireless's subscription database (free access with Eye-Fi Geo/Explore/Pro cards) which is a paid service.
4 - Nikon Wi-Fi solution would need to implement the recording of the above mentioned data.
5 - (nitpick) need access to internet to geotag.
6 - (nitpick 2) must use their software and pray they update it for your new OS version. (Windows users likely need not worry).
7 - (Not a nitpick) - Only works where Skyhook Wireless has mapped APs. That means (according to Eye-Fi's docs) 70% of the population of the USA. This level of coverage would make ATT's 3G coverage look large. ;) (Mind that this uses Skyhook's WPS service, not their totally different XPS service which is a neat variation on AGPS ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_GPS ) using Wi-Fi points as hinting tools)
Excuse me for calling it GPS, you're right, it's not. I just call it that. Nobody knows what WPS is anyway.
Fine, it has its problems, but at least you would kind of have a "two in one" deal. But come to think of it I don't think it's worth the trouble.
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