Solmeta GPS Tagger

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Pretty amazing, a package sent from China via DHL on Monday.

Arrived this morning.

After unpacking and reading the not too good english manual, but much better than most.

I attached it to my Nikon. Simple, straight forward.

Iv attached a couple of geo-tagged images with the addition of compass bearing!

On the way to my field theres a san-pedro cactus outside our front gate. With an unusual amount of flowers on it.

That is the 1st pic, the 2nd is the field and the 3rd was the same cactus on my way back. Half an hour and half a million bees later. I couldnt get closer without getting stung...

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The only slight problem I might have is I have to use the electronic shutter control on the nikon for triggering with that ppm relay board from DIYD. Problem is that the GPS cable and shutter cable are the same damn cable.

 So I either need to get a Y splitter or I have to carefully splice in a 3 wire cable for the shutter control...

G:)

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  • I've looked into these and found that this one works best for me...

    http://www.metagps.com/

    METAGPS: Compact Geotagging Unit for Nikon DSLR Cameras
    METAGPS: Compact Geotagging Unit for Nikon DSLR Cameras
  • All the units work with all the Nikons I think. All you need is the correct cable.

    See below :)

    Cable –A for connection to Nikon D3-series, D700, D300-series, D2X, D2XS, D2HS, D200.
    Cable -A is for Solmeta Geotagger N1/N2/Pro, if you are using Geotagger N3, Cable-B is not compatible.

    Cable –B for connection to Nikon D90
    Cable-B is for Solmeta Geotagger N1/N2/Pro, if you are using Geotagger N3, Cable-B is not compatible.

    Cable –C for connection to Nikon D7000, D5100, D5000, D3100
    Cable-C is for Solmeta Geotagger N1/N2/Pro, if you are using Geotagger N3, Cable-C is not compatible.

  • T3

    Gareth

    Thanks for the reply. I cannot find a list of supported Nikons can anybody else.

  • www.solmeta.com

    Solmeta Technology Ltd.|Nikon GPS,Photo GPS,camera GPS,Geotagging,Geotagger
  • Do you have a link to the supplier..?

  • D5100

  • What Nikon do you have?

  • Its from an on-board magnetometer. It also has a gyro for pitch and roll data.

  • T3

    Is the compass bearing from a magnetometer or from the GPS?

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