This article considers geotagging photos from a Mac perspective, looking at automatic and manual methods, and explaining terms such as data loggers, track points, waypoints, and routes. It lists OS X software options for connecting to data loggers, converting track log formats, geo-locating photos, and writing that data to EXIF for both raw and JPEG images. It also covers the importance of time synchronization, what you can do with geotagged photos, workflow, choosing a data logger and controlling it from your Mac.
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We end this month in New Zealand with a sense of achievement: we walked the Tongariro Crossing without significant pain nor injury. We had good weather and got some great photos of the beautiful volcanic landscape. Our 18.6 km walk began early morning in the shadow of Mt. Doom, as Ngauruhoe is now popularly known following its role in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings. In the bright sunlight at altitude, capturing well-exposed images of the dark landscape required extra care to avoid blown highlights.
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Every time you swap a lens you risk dust getting inside the body of your SLR. It can settle in front of the sensor and appear in every image that you take thereafter as an indistinct spot (dust on the lens apparently makes for a more defined dirty spec, although it depends on aperture). While many of these artifacts can be effectively dealt with using Photoshop's invaluable healing brush (working at 100% image size), sometimes they fall on an image zone that makes correction difficult. At some point they become to numerous to ignore; that's when I decided to get some CCD housekeeping organized.
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The AF-S Zoom-Nikkor ED 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G IF DX VR is a great lens (if you can find one). This isn't a review (for that, see here or here), but I'd like to share one aspect of user experience with you.
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On 1st November 2005 Nikon announced that some lot numbers of the EN-EL3 battery (as used in my D70) "may become defective, resulting in overheating during recharging". They went on to explain:
When we receive your battery it will be inspected, verified and a replacement battery will posted to the address declared during registration. Your Nikon EN-EL3 battery will be replaced free of charge with a new EN-EL3a or a new EN-EL3e battery within approximately 5-10 working days of receipt. The EN-EL3a and the EN-EL3e may be freely substituted for the EN-EL3 in all cases. Please note that in the case of high demand, returns may take longer.
Note that last word; it turns out to be the most important bit...
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Citing an article from the Digital Photography Blog, Engadget asks "Should you get a prosumer digicam or go for a DSLR?"
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