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GPS Facility on the Canon 6D

GPS Facility on the Canon 6D

Coldwaterjohn
By A Coldwaterjohn club
22 Jun 2013 - 3 comments - 291 visits- Permalink   |   Translate title into English
On a recent two day flight round the Western Isles of Scotland, I thought it would be a good scheme to keep the GPS feature live, so that there would be no arguments later on Panoramio and other sites, where the EXIF data would establish exactly where the camera was.
Admittedly the camera was in the cockpit with me so perhaps did not have direct line of sight to the satellite triangulation system used, but I have been very disappointed to see that a large number of the images are now indelibly stamped with a completely incorrect set of coordinates, placing them all in the centre of England somewhere!
I will now have to go through them one by one matching the time they were taken against the log from the aircraft GPS to be certain which of hte many thousands of lochs and islands I was in fact photographing!
I would be interested in hearing if any other Canon 6D user has had any experience of defective GPS recording in the 6D.
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 Amazingstoker
Amazingstoker
Not noticed any problems myself, every GPS tag I've checked has been spot on
11 years ago.
Coldwaterjohn club has replied to Amazingstoker
Thanks for your prompt response. Was the camera out in the open or inside a vehicle or aircraft? Mine has never given a problem if outside without cover. Perhaps I didn't wait long enough after switching it on for it to get its bearings properly, and I was in an aircraft cockpit - some experimentation is required!
11 years ago.
Amazingstoker has replied to Coldwaterjohn club
Sorry for the long delay, still getting the measure of how to work with Ipernity and missed your post. The camera would always have been in the open, never used it inside a car or plane.

But having now looked back through some photos I took from a tall building with metallised windows, where the 6D couldn't get a GPS signal, some are maybe around 100m out and later ones have no GPS tag. I suspect the 6D keeps recording the last known position for some time, then gives up. So depending on how fast you're travelling when the signal is lost I guess they could be a way out. My examples were when I was walking with the 6D.
11 years ago.

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