Question re GPS tagging
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As near as I can tell the R1 will have GPS, but the R5 II will not. It's worth noting the R3 has Built-in GPS.
The R5 and R6 could add GPS info from your phone, but I found setting that up cumbersome and something that had to be redone for every shooting session.
GPS is important to me. And one of the reasons I shoot an R3 over the others.
The R5 and R6 could add GPS info from your phone, but I found setting that up cumbersome and something that had to be redone for every shooting session.
GPS is important to me. And one of the reasons I shoot an R3 over the others.
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To get gps tagging to work, I only have to start Camera connect on my phone, all the cameras will automatically connect to its bluetooth. It even works with multiple cameras at the same time.
You can even add profiles for other phones/tablets and switch between them. That switching is tedious exercise, though.
I haven’t had issues with the cameras connecting to the phone in years, only with the phone being too far away or sending the wrong coordinates.
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Yes, my phone can be highly inaccurate at times, especially if I'm indoors. It might get it right some of the time, but at other moments in the same visit to the same building it will place me a few blocks away and then back to where I'm actually at several times over the course of a couple of hours.
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I set up the GPS connection with the Canon Connect app to my R7 following this video. The video is for the R6, but the menus are likely the same (or very close) on most recent R bodies. It worked great for the R7.
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I'd love to see Canon (or a third party, if they'll allow it) come out with a new GPS module that's small and doesn't need batteries because it gets power from the body throug the multi-function shoe. It would likewise send the tagging data back to the body through the multi-function shoe, so no external cable would be needed either.
Canon R6 tip #2: Geotagging pictures automatically!
A short video going through the steps on how to have the R6 geotag your pictures automatically using the GPS on your iPhone. See more of the description belo...
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I'd love to see Canon (or a third party, if they'll allow it) come out with a new GPS module that's small and doesn't need batteries because it gets power from the body throug the multi-function shoe. It would likewise send the tagging data back to the body through the multi-function shoe, so no external cable would be needed either.
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Thanks for the above guides. I did not meant to imply that I could not figure out how to set this up with my phone and camera. I meant with a camera like the R3 or any of the pro or semi-pro DSLRs, the cameras had built-in GPS that worked without a phone. The 7D Mark II, an $1800 crop camera from 2015 had it.
Also the original question, Will the R1 (or R5/II?) have built-in GPS locating, remains unanswered.
Also the original question, Will the R1 (or R5/II?) have built-in GPS locating, remains unanswered.
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