It could be useful if you are out taking pictures in a place were you are not really familar with.
Brifely describe how you might use GPS in your digital camera.
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This will be great for folks who would like to show up their beloved places to relatives/friends when a trip together is out of question. As an imigrant from Romania, I would like to take my entire family back to the places where I spent my childhood with my (their) ancestors too. Unfortunately, with their active careers we cannot make it together. I plan to take the appropriate (hundreds) of pictures associated with their coordinates which will be printed on the picture. This way they can retrace their roots on their time, later, even if I am gone on a greener pasture and cannot show it to them. On a funnier note maybe they can go treasure hunting ? Even Easter egg hunting for kids using a GPS and pictures ? Re-visiting places I like but I can no longer remember their exact location ? Or simply I liked a tree in a forest which can no longer be identified? Many uses, let's go for it and people will buy it.
More than fun -- it is extremely useful to document where and when a photo was taken. Saves me from having to log it and then enter it in a db matching the image nr. Wifi has very limited usefulness and would be an expensive waste of money for most folks.
GPS could be useful, especially in legal photography. I personally have no need for WiFi. Blue Tooth is such a nightmare with respect to malicious code that I would be very hesitant to see a similar capability in my camera. Imagine people stealing photos off your camera without you even knowing about it, or downloading malicious code to it to erase your flash cards. Somebody with a little common sense should put some real thought into the implications of this "Wow!" technology before it is widely adapted.
To me this would just be another gadget to clutter up a camera back or menu tree. What ever happened to a map and good notes? Do you really need that kind of precision to locate the spot were you captured a particular image? I can see it now: dozens of digital shooters staring at the GPS coordinates on their viewfinder while seeking the precise spot where a friend took a photo a week earlier!
I think if the photos are tagged with a GPS location that it might make it easier for people to remember exactly where they were when they took a photo. It would also help you track where were and are now going. One less device to carry woth you to remote locations.