Originally posted by MMVIII a camera which helps him to keep track of his phototours, even allows him to filter and sort his entire photocollection by coutry, location, site and helps him to find photos of a certain area
Don't know if you didn't know, but this is what I'm doing already since 2013, w/o the need for an expensive camera GPS unit
just like so many others.
My Garmin etrex 20 records my track while I'm hiking or driving. It creates and stores a track file on its SD card. A track is just a dense chain of positions, each tagged with the satellite's time.
Back at home, some software (in my case: GeoSetter) reads all recorded tracks, and transfers track positions to my files' metadata.
Someone could use his/her smartphone as well, instead of a Garmin. There are apps around from recording tracks to full-blown offline navigation.
This is what I meant when I said, that the GPS inclusion into cameras is redundant for those already having already a GPS device with them (such as a smartphone, a handheld GPS, or a car GPS).
Having the GPS in cam has the advantage of course, that this adds some comfort and relief for those, which want an as-easy-as-possible solution w/o the requirement to get familar with geotagging with smartphone apps and the help of 3rd party helper software. The price to pay is, that this sucks up the camera battery charge.
I don't comprehend yet, why the loss of the pop-up flash was requried. Aren't there DSLRs around yet, which have both GPS and a pop-up Flash? My suspicion is, that Ricoh may want to bully customers into buying an expensive and profitable system flash unit.