Comments on: Oversized Ricoh 500SE delivers GPS, so what? http://www.gearfuse.com/oversized-ricoh-500se-delivers-gps-so-what/ Gearfuse is a tech blog featuring news, views and opinions on the best of gadgets, gizmos, consumer electronics, hardware and more... Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:31:58 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Ole http://www.gearfuse.com/oversized-ricoh-500se-delivers-gps-so-what/comment-page-1/#comment-221 Ole Thu, 25 Jan 2007 07:10:08 +0000 http://www.gearfuse.com/oversized-ricoh-500se-delivers-gps-so-what/#comment-221 Actually the 500SE gives you the choice of having either Ricoh's GPS clip on tho the side and to of the camera's body (as you see on the image, so GPS isn't really built into the camera) or use any bluetooth gps mouse you may already have. Anyway the unique thing is that the firmeware writes those GPS coordinates directly into the image's header file (exif). The 500SE is available in Europe through alta4 Geoinformatik AG, Trier, Germany. alta4 ships the camera with the free software Fodysseus RE for viewing the geo-photos in Google Earth. <a href="http://www.alta4.com/de/produkte/gps/index.php" title="http://www.alta4.com/de/produkte/gps/index.php" rel="nofollow"> Actually the 500SE gives you the choice of having either Ricoh’s GPS clip on tho the side and to of the camera’s body (as you see on the image, so GPS isn’t really built into the camera) or use any bluetooth gps mouse you may already have.
Anyway the unique thing is that the firmeware writes those GPS coordinates directly into the image’s header file (exif).

The 500SE is available in Europe through alta4 Geoinformatik AG, Trier, Germany.
alta4 ships the camera with the free software Fodysseus RE for viewing the geo-photos in Google Earth.

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