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Add GPS data to your Nikon DSLR

May 8, 2007 on 2:51 pm | In DIY |

Found on DIY Live Too bad I have a Sony!

Well apparently some Nikon digital SLR camera have a data transfer
cable that will allow data to be input into the camera, and maybe even
recorded in the EXIF data of the images. It also appears that this data
cable operates on the standard RS-232 serial algorithm. A cable of this
nature can be made using a Max-232 chip (or a RS-232 receiver chip), and connected to a PC. Instructions on how to do this for the Nikon F-100 can be found here.

Now all of this is just a little background work to make this DIY
project make a little more sense. I was a little confused after reading
the article because a lot of the necessary information was not there.
This little hack takes a standard Garmin etrex gps, which outputs the
GPS coordinates, and stores it in the data file of the picture. Now,
you will know the exact location of where each picture was taken. I am
sure you could then incorporate this into Google Earth, or do whatever
you want with it.

Above you see the schematic used in this device. Click on the pic to go to the original.

This page describes the steps I went through in
my project to connect a Garmin eTrex Summit GPS device to a Nikon D200
camera body in order to record location information in the EXIF data of
images captured using the setup. While this procedure worked fine for
me, I do not take any responsibility for you or your equipment should
you try this yourself.

You can read more about this cool project here.

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Too bad I have a Canon!