The weather was today very nice, so I decided to make a nice trip on my bicycle This way I could test right away the new GPS-tracker (for my camera) that I got from Marion.
It was a nice long trip that made me use 3 ferries. The first one to cross the “Noord-Holland kanaal” to get in the direction of the harbor of Amsterdam. I can see the cranes of the harbor on the horizon when I am standing on my balcony of my apartment.
The second time to cross the side cannel C (of the “Noord-Holland kanaal”). This to get in the direction of IJmuiden. This ferry is a very small one, specially for bicycles. It came specially from the other side to pick me up (and that for just 1 Euro).
The last one was at IJmuiden to get to the right side of the “Noord-Holland kanaal” again, so I could travel home.
I think the complete trip with all the d-tours must have been at least 45 kilometers, mostly likely even a bit more. Although I could feel my behind after all that time on the bicycle, I enjoyed it very much.
Somehow I was convinced that I had already enough sun this year to have a sunburn. I was wrong, my arms and face have a nice red color. But luckily not too serious.
And my new GPS tracker? It did a wonderful job. Maybe a small explanation how this all works. In a picture made with a digital camera is all kind information stored like when the picture was made, what kind of camera was used, all kind of settings of the camera. This is the so called EXIF-data. Lets have a look at the picture below of “De Stenen Paal” nearby Heemskerk….
If I would have a look the properties of the pictures, I can see the EXIF-data of that picture:
Well, when you have a GPS-tracker on your camera, simply said it queries a satellite for the exact location on the moment you take a picture and add this directly to the EXIF-data of your picture (it sounds so simple, but such a GPS-tracker is really a piece of high level technology)…
As I like to know where a picture was taken, this is very handy for me. I have many (older) pictures where I have no clue of where it was taken. And that is a pity.
So no more doing difficult things with maps for me. I just look at the EXIF-data of the picture and I know exactly where the picture was taken.
To make things even easier there are a lot of programs and websites that can read the GPS-data from the EXIF-data and do fun/useful things with it. Think of Flickr, Gallery (with a plugin), ViewNX2, Google Maps/Earth and many more. An example is that Flickr can add a nice map to your picture:
So for me this GPS tracker is a very useful addition to my photo-gear that will safe me a lot of time which I lost which manually trying to find the location a picture was taken. So I am very happy with this gift from Marion… Thanks dear!
I am glad you like the GPS thingy so much. I know you just love gadgets like that. How do you call them? Boy toys? 😛