Pentax announcement

As long as the announcement isn't the death of Pentax I'm quite happy.
We'll know all about it tomorrow. Maybe.

GPS in cameras has been a bit controversial because in some cases the police have been using it to track where pictures were taken, which makes some photo-journalists a bit wary for their sources etc. There was an article about it in one of the camera magazines a while back.

Best wishes, Kris.

Surely only in cases where the police got hold of the original images (or the journalist published them with full EXIF). Should be easy enough to remove or alter, though.

Prieni

Apparently, in some places they are demanding the original files through court action etc.

So it is legal then. How can you argue with it in that case? And do you have a legal obligation to keep the original files, unaltered?

All seems like a bit of a non issue to me. If you are a reporter and you go to a "secret" place, take your "old" K20D or whatever that doesn't have a GPS built in and Bob's your uncle...

Prieni

Not something I ever have to worry about, just reporting that journalists were having concerns as a matter of interest.

Cheers, Kris.

Is anyone here conscerned about GPS tagging photos? If a take a photo at home, upload it to a photo shairing site, then someone will know where I live and that I have a certain camera and lens

I know I can strip out the EXIF info, however what about the photos on my PC? If someone gets access to my PC, they will know where I am located

What do you think?

I would bet that you will be able to turn the feature off if you don't want it.

The ideal would be a button like the "RAW" one. One push, and adds the GPS EXIF data to the image. Given how configurable the K10/K20 is I wouldn't be surprised if this was possible. For example, I do not use my one-push RAW button as I shoot in RAW all the time, so perhaps I could assign it to be the GPS button instead. There are times when I would find the GPS setting very useful (in archaeological field survey for example) but as beakynet suggested, I would not want it on for every shot.

Cheers, Kris.

Will the camera have a GPS receiver built in, or wlll it just provide a link to a GPS receiver?

Files on your PC can be encrypted if needs be - with TrueCrypt, for example.

No idea, but some of the competition have GPS built in so I guess that is what it will be. My phone, I discovered after I had bought it, has GPS built in!

Cheers, Kris.

If somebody gets access to your computer, that somebody already knows where you live and what you have.

All they will know from the image is that you took it at that location. That doesn't mean it was home, you might have been visiting!

Of course even if the facility is there it will no doubt be possible to switch it off.

GPS is not so accurate as to pinpoint a house anyway.
I use a GPS logger when I'm out with my camera, and add the GPS info to the jpegs. I like it, and found in invaluable for my holiday photos in the US, and will doubtless find it so again when (if) we go back to Tanzania. All very well knowing you took a photo in the Serengeti NP - but that park is the size of Northern Ireland!
It takes a while for a logger to locate the satellite so I'm not sure a button to log the data would work, unless the camera is permanently in contact with the satellite.
I'm assuming it will be built in, rather than the Nikon system of sitting a logger on the hotshoe.

The army use it to drop bombs on houses so I think it can
The civilian type GPS use today is about 5m accurate depending on the quality.