ATP Photo Finder
Dec 26, 2007 gps navigation, misc news, tracking
This little device automatically tags your photos with GPS information (geotag). The concept of ATP Photo Finder is a bit different. The way this machine syncs with your camera is very simple. First you set the time of your camera and the time on your ATP Photo Finder to the same time. Then you activate your photo finder and take your pictures as you normally would. After you finish taking pictures, simply insert your memory card into the Photo Finder’s card slot and the GPS data will be synchronized and added to all the pictures on the card. Then you use a GPS compatible software such as Picasa2 or Google Earth and then you can track the exact location and time of where your pictures were taken. And that’s why ATP Photo Finder will work with almost any digital camera on the market today.
It costs $130 but we don’t think it is available at big retail stores just yet…via
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April 24th, 2009 at 11:15 am
I bought one of these devices in June 2008. I eded up taking it back to Costco and getting my money back.
These are the problems I encountered:
This device will not tag pics on an SD card from a Nikon D60, even though the web site claims that is a compatible camera.
The device turns itself off randomly so all my trips are incomplete and in sections.
Sometimes the device will not turn off at all until I remove the battery.
Battery life is less than claimed.
The small screen uses a dark gray on black font and is unreadable in anything but a dark room.
The data shown is lat/long, it apparently does not calculate elevation.
The ‘work-around’ software hangs my system.
Even when the device is stationary, it shows that it is moving up to 200 yards in all directions, randomly. This level of inaccuracy is not acceptable.
The waypoints it shows in Google Earth have incorrect time stamps – possibly a bug when dealing with daylight savings time?
There is no tech support contact on the web site – just a useless FAQ.
I have had no response to my emails to the company.
Bottom line: Would be great if it worked, but it just does not work at all.