Saturday, January 22, 2005

Suggestion: Put GPS in Digital Cameras

I'm dying for this. As I said before, iPhoto could mark the location with this. If you have a GPS track file that you can match up with the coordinates of your camera, GPSPhotoLinker will input them into your files. But as far as I can tell no digital camera has implemented this directly. (Someone correct me if I'm wrong so I know what my new camera is going to be.)

Being in touch with a GPS satellite would solve another problem of mine... time zone switching. I travel often between Asia and the east coast of the United States. As such, I often forget to change the time in my camera and the time recorded in the pics ends up being about half a day off from the actual recorded time. A camera in touch with GPS satellites would know where it was and would be able to automatically switch the time zones so I would never have dinner pics that are recorded at 5AM.