User review of Sony GPS logger

During a summer holiday visit to the beautiful atlantic island of Madeira I had the chance to try out my Sony GPS-CS3KA GPS unit. I am in the process of preparing the images for upload to my SmugMug pages but initial checks using GoogleEarth show excellent accuracy of location for shots taken on a Panasonic Lumix G1 with no built in GPS capability.

Notable benefits are the usefulness with any camera, the ease of use of the simple menu structure and the speed of GPS lock. Initial location times when turned on were much quicker than the Nikon P6000 with built in GPS. This reduces the time before geotagged photos can be taken. A great benefit when on an organised minibus tour of the West of the island where location stops were often brief.

The only drawback is the 64 shot limit on tags. Before the 64 tag memory is exceeded it is necessary to remove the SD card from the camera and insert it into the Sony GPS logger so at can associate shots and geotags using timestamp data (previously synchronised by the user on camera and logger menus). The transfer was speedy and trouble free.

I'd recommend this system for anyone who has a camera without built in  GPS or without the GPS interfaces of Nikon high end SLRs. Although the Sony advertising for this product implies that it only works for it's own Cybershot cameras, it should work with any digital camera shooting JPEGs and using SD card image storage.