muesli's Blog - Photography

Gallery Map View

nospam@example.com (muesli) — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 03:15:34 -0400

Watching your photos on a map is just awesome. Try it!

Sony GPS-CS1 - on its way

nospam@example.com (muesli) — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 04:03:49 -0400

Just ordered at sonystyle.co.uk: Sony GPS-CS1. So looking forward to this little device. It records your GPS position automatically every 15 seconds and stores it in memory. You can then just plug it into your computer and sync the positions with the images you took. Et voila: you end up with perfectly tagged images, that you can view on a (world-)map.

Oh by the way, even though Sony officially only claims it's compatible with CyberShot and other Sony cameras, I can assure you that it's actually compatible with any camera / JPEG files in general. When you plug in the device, you can simply mount it as a disc. You'll find proper NMEA GPS logs which you can import in most GPS mapping software.

Short specs:
- Runs on standard AA batteries (14h per battery).
- Capacity for aprox. 86.400 (360h) position records.
- Stores one record every 15 seconds.

Cameras used by flickr users

nospam@example.com (muesli) — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 01:19:30 -0400

Found a nice site today, which generates charts of cameras that are currently being used by flickr.com users. It samples between 1% and 2% percent of flickr's daily uploads (about 10.000 images per day) and analyzes their EXIF metadata. Certainly not 100% accurate, but statistically it should be rather close to the real data.

Interesting.