New stuff from Dawntech and Solmeta

Dawntech of Hong Kong has renamed their product from N2-diGPS, which I also bought about a year ago, to Dawntech Basic which by the way has no on-off switch like the old N2-diGPS and Pro which is waterproof and has a ten pin input.

My Dawntech N2-diGPS.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/xtemujin/sets/72157601590395648/

The other version is named USB for Canon camera.

Check out the Dawntech website.

http://www.dawntech.hk/di-GPS/products.htm

Solmeta of China has introduced the new DP-GPS N2 which is able to geotag the last known coordinates if the signal is lost or when you're indoors. Priced at US$288.

http://www.solmeta.com/en/

Geotate geotagging products

Geotate Hopi.


Geotate Kato

I'm looking forward to the Geotate solution for geotagging.

So in our continuing search for the best geotagging systems, we spoke with some folks from Geotate in Las Vegas, who have developed technology which will now be in the next gen of point and shoot cameras.

They are working with a company called Altek, one of the major manufacturers of digital cameras that a bunch of brands put their name on. Oh, don’t worry..that’s how most of it happens. One company develops and makes a product that can be branded by a specific company. Like Kodak. Or Sony.

Take a look and listen to some of Geotate’s technology:

http://www.geotate.com/products.html

http://www.photoinduced.com/archives/840

The Geotate Hopi looks promising for use with cameras that have hotshoe. I believe that you've to synchronise the camera time with the GPS time.

It'll be a great disadvantage if the Geotate software is only able to geotag jpeg files instead of Nikon NEF or any other RAW files.

No idea when will the Geotate Hopi be out for sale.

GPS for Nikon with 10 pin connector.

Bluetooth and wired solution.

Foolography.

Foolography still has the special offer price of 199€ from the previous price of 270€ for the Bluetooth ten pin receiver.

It is still more expensive than a Garmin 10X Bluetooth GPS.

http://www.foolography.com/home.php

Red Hen Systems Blue2CAN(USA)

https://ecommerce.redhensystems.com/pc-47-3-blue2can.aspxstems.com/pc-47-3-blue2can.aspx

Dawntech(Hong Kong, China)

http://www.dawntech.hk/di-GPS/index.htm

Custom Idea(United Kingdom)

http://customidea.com/shop/index.php?cPath=38&osCsid=0c522b635d1619c2e72036af6af30ae0

Solmeta(Shenzhen, China)

http://www.solmeta.com/en/

Macsense Geomet'rTM GPS Receiver for Nikon

Priced at US$129 which is much more cheaper than the Dawntech N2 Di-GPS at US$238, Custom Idea Geopic II at £199.95 and the Solmeta GPS N1 at US$248.

Update October 2008: Some of the users here in Singapore are experiencing some problems using the Macsense GPS.

http://www.macsense.com/product/peripheral/gnc-30.htm

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00155Q7V0/ref=dp_olp_2