Originally posted by Larrymc Since you are such an "old School" photographer, why all the ruckus about GPS? I don't recall film cameras having a GPS.
Well, GPS did not exist when I was shooting film for use during my Archaeology days, it would have solved a lot of issues over the location of potential sites. It would have been a huge deal, maybe I would still be an Archaeologist. In 1983 when GPS went live for non-military use, I was having issues in grad school using my TRS-80 for papers. We had a class where we were simulating contract Archaeology building budgets for a summer of excavations in NM. (theoretically in Chaco Canyon). I had a
pirated copy of VisiCalc and the final was, the professor in the class changed the cost of food, gas, salaries and consulting fees for out "project". It took me 20 minutes to update my spreadsheet and print it out. I was back in his office within the hour being the first guy to own a PC. The other students freaked out, as it took them a day or so to manually recalculate their cost sheets. I was told that I was "cheating", the University would not accept dot matrix documents and I set the printer to slash the zeros - which was all so "illegal" at the University. I said at the time that Archaeologists would be taking PC's into the field in the future and even the professor asked how I was going to keep dirt out the floppy drives - "it ain't gonna happen" was the most common comment.
That all said, if there were a way Geotag images, I would have been all over it. Archaeologists build maps (I wrote a paper and created a program on my TRS-80 that would create a contour map for a graduate level Geography course) The location of features is extremely important in the field as it is in other fields. It would have been a boon to the field and has turned out to be anyway. As old as I am, I really wish that I could have had this technology.
One of the reasons I bought my K-3II was because of GPS. I spent 6 weeks in Europe taking pictures of doors, cathedrals, beer, landscapes and buildings. I am still going through my images of New Zealand trying to remember where in the name of heaven some of those images are from. The images since late
2016? - Not an issue, if I can't remember I open the image in Windows Photos look at the info and there is the map - down to the street. If I were still an Archaeologist and wondered if the biface I am looking at was found in South Dakota, Wyoming, Iowa or France..... Just open the picture and see where you were when it was shot.
Age has nothing to do with it nor does film.