| Pharos Trips and Pics Photo Linked Portable GPS Unit | 
| Brand: Pharos
Category: CE
List Price: $89.95
Buy New: $76.97
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 5214
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: Yes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 10.5 x 7.5 x 2.5
MPN: PTP10
Model: PTP10
UPC: 818948002709
EAN: 0818948002709
ASIN: B000XX13EQ
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Record trips and geotag photos, works with any digital camera | | • | Results can be presented in both Google Earth and Microsoft Streets & Trips | | • | Trips & Pics Express allows a non-tech savvy user to accomplish many tasks in one click, from connecting the receiver, getting the log data from it, generating trips, to launching and viewing the result in Google Earth. | | • | Sophisticated trips statistics. | | • | Light-weight, portable and long-last battery time (24 hours between charges). |
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Product Description
Make and log any journey! Pharos Trips and Pics captures your location and time automatically at any interval you set. Time your training runs. Record your child?s athletic event. Show that great bicycle trip with times and photos. Save the memories from a great vacation. Send the files to friends and family so they can see your photos and where and when you took the pictures. Add text to share even more information. Display your trips with photos on Google Earth or Microsoft Streets & Trips. Pharos Trips and Pics automatically compensates for any difference between your camera?s time and true GPS time, so the information is precise. Depending on the rate you set, the Pharos GPS logger can store from 1.5 to 45 days of times and locations. The rechargeable battery will run the unit for 24 hours. An AC adapter is included in the package.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Not the best for geotagging - No RAW support out of the box. September 21, 2008
Mr. Velvia (Arnold, CA)
I purchased this knowing it did not support RAW, but I still wish it did support RAW. It works OK with jpg. But I find that if I want to take it on an extended trip, I must also take the charger as the batteries last only about one day. I'm finding more use for it just as a pocket gps for keeping track of my walks and hikes.
Look elsewhere if you want to geotag the RAW files. You can do it with this and some utility software, but why bother jumping though hoops if another gps can do it all?
 Works but not a drive. September 5, 2008
Tom Dowd (Napa, CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was looking/hoping for a GPS that would look like a drive and that my photo down load software (Downloader Pro) would see and integrate the GPS data. This unit does not work that way.
Other than that it works great! I keep the battery charged and when I take off to photograph, turn the GPS unit on. When I get back I plug in the Trips and Pics and use the software to save the data in the Trips and Pics format and then again in GPX format. I then copy the GPX format file to the CF card from my camera.
My camera is a Canon 40D and I shoot in RAW. I use Downloader Pro to rename the RAW files and integrate the GPS data as well as convert a copy to DNG. That process works great and I now have GPS data included in both the CR2 sidecar file and the converted DNG file. When I use Lightroom 2 to export to JPEG the GPS data in in the JPEG file also.
I'll get a different GPS dohicky someday (or a camera that includes GPS) that saves the above steps but for now I am very pleased with the Trips and Pics and would recommend it to anyone in the same situation.
I have not used the included software to add GPS data to JPEG files or much else other than converting the Trips and Pics format data to GPX. It works great for that.
Not too bad ... August 16, 2008
Hawk-eye (Oak Ridge, NC)
Well it's a very, very sensitive receiver. Size is good function is good. On/off switch is a bit cheesy and easy to accidentally turn on and off.
Documentation is marginal and weak but can be worked out. Software (you can update it although mine came with a new disk taped to the back of the package).
Definitely better functionality obtained by using the classic format. It does everything the other reviewer said it won't.
At about $60 it's a good bargin at a $100 not so good..
I'd reccmd it for geotagging photos.
 great digital camera add-on June 8, 2008
Garry Hu (Boston, MA, USA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I bought Pharos Trips and Pics and downloaded new software from Pharos' web site. The Trips & Pics is a great travel gadget and digital camera add-on. It recorded my trips and geotagged my photos offline by using the time stamp of the photos. Its GPS was surprisingly sensitive; it even recorded my positions while I was eating and taking family pictures in a restaurant. The software is easy to use. I chose Microsoft Virtual Earth to view my photos, and replay my trip. It ran smoothly. The new Trips & Pics software also supports EXIF, Flickr and GPX. I will carry it with me when I go to Olympic in Beijing. Oh, it will be nice if the company can offer extra battery even though the device can last the whole day after fully charged.
 Using the Pharos Trip & Pics GPS Trip Logger February 11, 2008
Bolton S. Pierce Jr. (Reston VA)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I purchased this unit in Feb 2008. The hardware works great (the GPS), uses a sensitive GPS chip, and the battery should last over a day trip. However, I was disappointed that the included software does not directly Geotag the photos (ie insert the GPS coordinates into the EXIF data contained in the the JPG file.) Also, although the software claims that it will output GPX files, I could not get the resulting GPX file to work in other Geotagging software. Pharos responded to my query about Geotagging - that this capability should appear in the next release of their Trips & Pics software in a few months.
The software WILL show your route on Google Earth and reference where your pictures were taken. However, without actual Geotagging of the EXIF frame in the JPG, the system is of no use for actual Geotagging until Pharos updates their software. Pharos Trips and Pics
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