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It would be cool to have a digital camera that embeds a date/time/location/orientation stamp on each photo that it takes. An internal clock can track the date and time (or get it from GPS), a GPS receiver and chip can get the location in co-ordinates, and an internal compass can give orientation.
<P>This
would be for scientific field-worker types. <P>But also, say you're on vacation, you could simply type in your itinerary, and some program automatically organizes your photo album. I.E. Trip to Mt. Something, 10:30 AM August 24th, Plains of Somewhere, Turkey, looking east.
Kodak GPS-260
http://www.jei.org/...58_USinJ_Photo.html
"The GPS-260 combines Kodak's DC260 Zoom digital camera with GPS (global positioning system) technology from GARMIN INTERNATIONAL, INC. of Olathe, Kansas. That allows location information to be recorded for each picture." [angel, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]
A location proposal for EXIF
http://exif.org/proposals/location.html
Includes GPS (which is already in EXIF) but other things as well. Alas, no camera direction orientation. They do include postal code if that's any consolation. [bristolz, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]
GPS Camera video
http://www.halfbake...PS_20Camera_2fvideo
redundant [FarmerJohn, Oct 04 2004]
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Oh, how I miss the gentle summer breezes of the Plains of Somewhere. |
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lovely idea. have a picture of a bun [16th July 2003, 20:40, London, straight] |
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come to think of it, wouldn't it be neat to have a digital camera, that you could open up and yank yards of faux film out, in a faux paddy. |
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Some time ago, I was about to post an idea for a digital camera to record GPS-derived location and direction, so I could look at a map and relate it to the photograph. After a bit of Goooogling, I found that the idea was baked, so I guess this is too. (linky, for example.) |
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I got as far as actually posting the GPS camera idea before discovering it was Baked (what, me use Google?!). |
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A lot of cameras now allow you to record a verbal description of the shot, and while useful, I would agree this still falls short of the mark. |
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The standard EXIF header spec has fields for GPS coordinates as well as fields for everything else mentioned except the direction that the camera is looking. |
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How does it miss camera direction? I would think this quite important info. |
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The EXIF has scads of standard fields defined but most pertain to the exposure conditions (exposure, f-stop, ISO setting, etc.) as well as the technical situation of the camera (pixel-spacing aspect ratio, interlace; flash energy; spatial frequency response; battery level, etc.) |
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Precious few are fields that are useful as metadata that help define the story behind the picture. There is at least GPS coords, artist name and even a user comment field but not many cameras expose these fields in a useful way. |
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Some camera makers add manufacturer specific data extensions/fields to the EXIF like blur warnings and manual focus data but it's a bit random. Some of the more exotic digital cameras like Canon's EOS D series SLRs add stuff like whether the mirror is locked up and shutter curtain sync. |
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There is a new spec in the works called the Design rule For Cameras (DCF) that manufacturers are already moving to adopt and maybe that spec will add some richness and, hopefully, will allow cool things like the application of user-defined DRM policies to each image at the time of exposure and other future-y things. |
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Blah, blah, blah. Sorry for being boring. |
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Why do they bother with all the field blah blah in the EXIF document. Just GPS coordinates, time and direction of the shot will do. The rest can be reconstructed at home.
I see a whole new market for software that relates GPS coordinates to human readable locations. The software could also connect to a P2P network so people can swap pictures for that location at different times of the year or for different directions of the shot. |
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Come to think of it, elevation would be nice too. |
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