Sony’s HDR-TG5V Handycam shoots HD and tells you where you shot it…which is bad news for cave-dwelling terrorists but nifty for family vacations.
None of this is available now, but a resource screen found in iPhoto ’09 shows some interesting possible-future technology that may let you geotag your photos even if the camera didn’t have a GPS module.
Quietly announced alongside the D90 back in August, Nikon is now selling their hot-shoe-mounted GP-1 geotagging device.
Eye-Fi keeps kicking arse with their wireless SD cards, adding feed publishing capabilities through Twitter and RSS in a free software update. It was only a few weeks ago that another downloadable upgrade boosted download speeds and threw in MobileMe support, adding to an already massive list of support photo sharing sites. Owners should get an Eye-Fi Manager Software update pushed through automatically, and new customers can now find the cards on the Eye-Fi website. Note to other hardware manufacturers: DO MORE STUFF LIKE THIS. [Eye-Fi via Crave]
According to some allegedly leaked screens from the new iPhone software beta, the iPhone camera is now asking permission to transmit the user’s location before loading. The screen in question certainly implies geotagging with the message “‘Camera’ would like to use your current location,” but it doesn’t outright confirm an iPhone 2 with GPS, since the iPhone’s current Skyhook service could be used for geotagging just as easily. And since Skyhook could work, then all current iPhones could get geotagging, too.
