GPS for Cameras on Safari

September 7, 2010 | Posted by Safari Guide

GPS in Cameras
Still a fairly new concept, but one that is sure to become more and more popular is that of having a built-in GPS receiver in your digital camera.

Camera GPS Tagging
The idea is that it the location data where the photo was taken is automatically embedded with its latitude and longitude in the EXIF data. These geo-tagged images can then be pinpointed on the maps of social media internet sites, including Google Maps to be shared with your friends and families.

Not only does this make remembering where you took that particular holiday snap, but it gives you a new way to sort and search your photos. On safari this can be ideal and I can even imagine wildlife researches and professional photographers finding this feature very useful in the future.

Digital Cameras with GPS
Nikon GPS Cameras are some of the most popular and it is included in many of their models but just about all of the major camera manufacturers, including Samsung, Sony, and Panasonic, are pushing it hard, wich means that it’s implementation is bound to improve at a rapid rate.

Panasonic DMC-TZ10 (DMC-ZS7) GPS Digital Camera

One of the best compact GPS cameras is the Panasonic TZ10 superzoom (Lumix DMC-ZS7 in North America) with it’s GPS that geo-tags and identifies over half a million locations.

If you forget the GPS for a moment and are just looking for a compact camera with a power zoom that is ideal for taking on holiday then the TZ10 with it’s 12x optical zoom (25-300mm equiv.) ticks most of the boxes. Include the GPS into the equation then it makes an ideal holiday camera.

Excellent Travel Companion
In built up areas, the TZ10 Panasonic GPS camera also shows the name of the town, area and landmarks using an internal database to give users real-time information of the place when taking photos to add fun of photo shooting during travel. The information of landmark exceeds 500,000, covering 73 countries which is pretty impressive!

The photos and movies with their location data are automatically sorted in the virtual folder alphabetically in the camera allowing quick access. You can also refer to the location names via the included software.

The Panasonic TZ10 also makes easy to sort or search images by the location names. If this wasn’t enough, the internal clock of the camera is automatically adjusted to the local time of the place where the camera is, so you do not have to set the clock manually whether you go abroad or come back home.

Further Reading

For more information as well as expert and customer reviews, take a look at the Panasonic TZ10 on the TestFreaks Website.

Price and where to buy:

I often use Amazon as a guide to price as they usually have what I want and usually available at the lowest price:

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