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Posted: Thu Aug 17th, 2017 16:26
 
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Robert, now you are being wicked!

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You bring to mind the famous Reggie Perrin memories!!


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:lol:

Hey, not me, it was Lightroom honest!



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I'm with Robert on the maps use in LR. Never bothered with faces much as it does come up with odd matches.



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Robert ...one day we must sit down so you can convince me that LR indexing and GPS tagging are that useful.

I may not be able to do it in two clicks but a simple geographic/ alphanumeric folder naming system e.g. Cadwell09, Pompeii14 has served me well for years and gets me to the images I want fast enough?

Having said that, I only keep to hand a few selected best images from that occasion which makes file identification quicker. Though I might take 500 shots, I may only keep 20/30 of the best shots in that folder. The 500 are archived in a similarly named folder on ext HD.....never to be used again. Lol

So even if I used LR, I wouldn't allow it to look through 25,000 photos, when only 1000 are all I am ever going to need.

I guess I must be quite brutal when it comes to selecting images I want to retain for ready access. But I cannot remember an occasion where I HAD to access the full archive to find an image that wasn't to hand.

But to contradict myself a little and make you chuckle virtuously..... only last week I had to access the 2004 archive to recover a folder I seemed to have deleted from the main computer. It took me nearly an hour to find the cables to connect that drive! Having then taken almost another hour to upload the folder...I discovered the folder hadn't been deleted but dragged into another adjacent folder.

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Forgot to add/ ask.....

I assume the map mode uses the gps detail from the camera or you have to input coordinates yourself?

As I haven't got gps feature on my current or previous cameras, (I don't think so?) I presume I would need to input the data manually for the last 40 years of photography....that's after scanning the 25 years pre digital of course.

That's an awful lot of work to get them on a 2click map?8-)



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Until I went to South America a couple o`years back , I did Not see the need for geo-tagging...but when I look at pics. taken with the smart phone in those days , I wish I had that feature on my SlrN , soon I am bound on long Haul for the far East . and am Seriously thinking about getting a GPS device for the D3s/x ....as costly as they are :'(



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Eric wrote:
Forgot to add/ ask.....

I assume the map mode uses the gps detail from the camera or you have to input coordinates yourself?

As I haven't got gps feature on my current or previous cameras, (I don't think so?) I presume I would need to input the data manually for the last 40 years of photography....that's after scanning the 25 years pre digital of course.

That's an awful lot of work to get them on a 2click map?8-)


Well, it is and it isn't... Most of your work is a confined location, an hotel or factory, all the images can probably be bundled to that location with perhaps separate location pins for internal and external images?. The vast majority of my images I have added the co-odinants by hand, but that just consists of dragging all the images to the map location. No actual data entry.

I have a Garmin hand held unit which has an RS232 output which I have added an adapter to allow attachment to a D200 ten pin socket. I used it at large botanic gardens so I could identify the location, it's apparently accurate to a few feet. I then use that camera to photograph the plant name tag, while using the main camera to photograph the plant. Dumping the lot into a folder then into Lightroom, provided the clocks in both cameras are in sync the GPS images are alongside the plant images, so it's very simple to add the plant images to the name tag image, which already has the GPS co-ordinates.

I have found the iPhone so erratic with it's GPS locations that I gave up on that one. One batch of photo's I took were about eight miles out. o.O

When adding the GPS locations at somewhere like Cadwell Park I just drag to images to the most appropriate location marker, I think that's better than having a hundred slightly different locations which could result from using 'on camera' GPS

As a retrospective thing I doubt the merit of adding GPS co-ordinates especially for one-off work images which you are never going to even look at again but if you visit a location repeatedly, different seasons and maybe different cameras/lenses, to be able to go to that location and pull out all the images you have decided to keep is in my opinion a great help. I have sometimes forgotten some photographs but not the location, clicking the location overcomes the memory loss and produces everything without searching through folders.

All my photo files are in folders marked "yy-mm-dd brief description", which puts the folders in date sort order.

I do have some of my images keyword but I find keyboarding so tedious that I don't keep it up to date as I should.



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Robert wrote:
Eric wrote:
Forgot to add/ ask.....

I assume the map mode uses the gps detail from the camera or you have to input coordinates yourself?

As I haven't got gps feature on my current or previous cameras, (I don't think so?) I presume I would need to input the data manually for the last 40 years of photography....that's after scanning the 25 years pre digital of course.

That's an awful lot of work to get them on a 2click map?8-)


Well, it is and it isn't... Most of your work is a confined location, an hotel or factory, all the images can probably be bundled to that location with perhaps separate location pins for internal and external images?. The vast majority of my images I have added the co-odinants by hand, but that just consists of dragging all the images to the map location. No actual data entry.

I have a Garmin hand held unit which has an RS232 output which I have added an adapter to allow attachment to a D200 ten pin socket. I used it at large botanic gardens so I could identify the location, it's apparently accurate to a few feet. I then use that camera to photograph the plant name tag, while using the main camera to photograph the plant. Dumping the lot into a folder then into Lightroom, provided the clocks in both cameras are in sync the GPS images are alongside the plant images, so it's very simple to add the plant images to the name tag image, which already has the GPS co-ordinates.

I have found the iPhone so erratic with it's GPS locations that I gave up on that one. One batch of photo's I took were about eight miles out. o.O

When adding the GPS locations at somewhere like Cadwell Park I just drag to images to the most appropriate location marker, I think that's better than having a hundred slightly different locations which could result from using 'on camera' GPS

As a retrospective thing I doubt the merit of adding GPS co-ordinates especially for one-off work images which you are never going to even look at again but if you visit a location repeatedly, different seasons and maybe different cameras/lenses, to be able to go to that location and pull out all the images you have decided to keep is in my opinion a great help. I have sometimes forgotten some photographs but not the location, clicking the location overcomes the memory loss and produces everything without searching through folders.

All my photo files are in folders marked "yy-mm-dd brief description", which puts the folders in date sort order.

I do have some of my images keyword but I find keyboarding so tedious that I don't keep it up to date as I should.


Going to have to have a round computer debate on this, Robert. I am getting a Mac later in the year so I may have to kidnap you for a weekend.
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That sounds all very complex, not to mention Hard Work to me Robert .

Never gave " accuracy " on geo-tagging a thought...any one knows how good the Nikon GPS thingie is ?

Intend to ducument places like the Forbidden City , and various places of the Chinese Wall..etc. , so would like the Nikon device to be fairly accurate , before I shell out the big bucks, anyone use those ?

Input appreciated .

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Most GPS inits that are sold commercially state an accuracy range. I think a good one is currently 1-10m accuracy.
Previously they were 10-25m which is probably good enough for most of us.

Military grade GPS is meant to be 0.1-1m.



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