Now the current 12 inch MacBook while great for a portable road warrior who needs internet and email plus Microsoft Office, is under-spec in the ports department, having only one.Ī photographers laptop, may need power, usb for tethering or memory card reader (remember not all professional cameras use SD Cards), external hard drive for backup etc Out of fun I checked out the spec of Apple’s latest MacBook and compared it to mine. I may just buy Caroline a new laptop and have her old one as its more then capable.
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I’ll be replacing my laptop within the next two years, its likely this my 2008 Macbook Pro will become part of my HiFi system. In fact my last few trips out I have even managed with the iPad Pro 9.7 especially if shooting with a Leica or Hasselbald with the PhaseOne digital back with their none propriety RAW files. heavy Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop work, batch scanning etc, I don’t need a lot on my laptop. Now having a MacPro desktop for the heavy lifting, e.g. Mail, Internet Browser, Spreadsheet, Dropbox, iTunes with a few favourite tunes and of course Adobe Lightroom, GPS4Cam (adds GPS data to RAW files), and SD Formatter for when those pesky SD cards start to play up or run slow.
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It's amazing that they can cram over two hours of hiking data into one little QRCode.I was rebuilding my old eight year old laptop, fresh format and clean install of just the apps I use. And gps4cam is the easiest and most accurate to use of the mobile trackers by leaps and bounds. Not everyone is as much of an obsessive geocoder as those of us who also regularly use GPS for navigation, but these tools can really help over what's in Lr, which is pretty minimal. And tweak the time interval they use to match up with GPS locations.
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HoudahGeo lets you download the Geonames database for this.īoth Jeffrey's plugin and HoudahGeo also let you work from other photos to copy location info. Unfortunately it's stuck with Google for reverse geocoding, but you can use your own data (there are sources for geographic data like this, sorta like using standardized keyword lists in applications like Photo Mechanic). It's excellent, but harder to use than HoudahGeo IMHO. I also forgot to mention Jeffrey Friedl's Geoencoding Support plugin. It's kind of like a pre-ingester for Lr.Īnd if you use GPS much, it's useful because you can generate GPX waypoints from the photos. I use it immediately after importing, since HoudahGeo will not only geocode and reverse geocode, but also correct the time, and can add keywords and captions as well. HoudahGeo works by directly accessing Lr's catalog, so it can find stuff in collections. Other sources in HoudahGeo gave me Rhyolite, which is accurate. For example, I visited the Goldwell Open Air Museum in NV near Death Valley Google/Lr gave the location as Beatty, which is miles away. It also can do reverse geocoding using a variety of sources (Lr is limited to one source), and it is easier to use than Lr's, which has a stupid way of saving suggestions if you go to edit just one field, like sublocation (you have to select each one.ugh). It can connect directly to dedicated GPS units if you ever have occasion to use those. It can also look up altitudes if your GPS doesn't do that. HoudahGeo can use Mapquest or MapBox, but most importantly, Google Earth. And it allows you to use different sources to tweak the locations if the GPS track is inaccurate Lr is limited to Google Maps. HoudahGeo can use gps4cam to geocode, which is the easiest method of geocoding short of using a wifi camera and dedicated app for the camera.
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Victoria, since you have a Mac I'd highly recommend gps4cam on the mobile device and HoudahGeo on the Mac.
If anyone can shed some light on this perplexing issue I would be much obliged.īTW I spent a rather fruitless hour trying various flavours of Google searches looking for a solution. ARW files are supported by this app, but I do wonder, given how new this camera is whether that may not be the problem. So, I am not convinced that I have an issue with co-ordinating time between the two devices.Īpparently. Now, I do actually understand timezones and in any case the difference in time between the smartphone and the camera was only a minute or and it is easy enough to reset the camera. When I try to use the desktop app it tells me that I have got the time or date wrong. In desperation I downloaded the desktop part of the app as well. It starts to get interesting when I try to geotag the images shot with the autotag option.ĭespite millimetric attention to getting the time (and date) shown on my smartphone co-ordinated with the camera each time I try to auto tag nothing actually happens. I can get the tracklog into Lightroom with no problem whatsoever and load it into the map module. I have recently installed this app on my Smartphone with the purpose of reverse geotagging images shot with my new Sony A7R II.