QUESTION

Hi

Does anyone know if the SONY GPS-CS1KA works with the *ist DL2, as I would be interested in getting one before a trip.

Thanks,

Any GPS that can output its track info. works with any DSLR.

To qualify that, you need some GPS middleware to geotag your images with the track data from your GPS. GPSync is one, easyGPS is another. Google for geotagging and you'll find others.

When I last looked into this, I found I need two pieces of software. One to read the track info from the GPS, the other to tag the images based on that track info.

Ensure that both GPS and camera have roughly the same time set.

There are better taggers than the Sony out there if you haven't already bought one. The Sony does not always get a good lock on the satellite apparently.
As Peter says you need two pieces of software for tagging normally, one to read the data from the tagger and put it into the right file format, and a second to link the tag to your jpeg photo - they don't normally work with RAW files.
It is important to have your computer and camera synchronised or the tagging will be awry.
I use a Qstarz tagger, with their software and then use locr, a free program, for the tagging. It works very well.

I had the Sony logger and it is very, very slow in acquiring a lock on your position and it frequently looses track of where it is.

I have now bought a Columbus V-900 GPS data logger which stores the log on a microSD card. I have a 2GB card in it and it allows me to store more then 250 days with a log interval of 1 second and 24h/day operation. So in practice it will store for more then a year if needed.
It has a LiPoly battery which works for up to 24 hours.

There are other loggers out there, allso cheaper then the Columbus but I like the Columbus more because of the huge storage capacity and the fact that it stores data on a microSD card so making backups of the data is easy. The downside of the Columbus is that it doesn't store the log in plain NMEA format.

The Sony logger does store the data in NMEA but the 31MB storage capacity doesn't last for your complete summer holiday for example.
The fact that the sony uses a normal AA battery is a plus. (a 2000mAh NiMH AA battery gives around 10-12 hours).

For Geotagging I use the free Geosetter program which works very good.
http://www.geosetter.de

A last point, people allways emphasize on the fact that the clock of your camer should be synchronised with your PC or with the GPS receiver and that it should be to the second. I have found that this is not completely true. I have my GPS logger turned on the whole day when I'm out with the camera, so if the time is off by 1 or 2 minutes what kind of distances are you talking about then? When you are flying in an F16 it is a lot but when you are walking or cycling...

The software I have used allows for something like 300 seconds (or maybe minutes) discrepency between camera and GPS times.

I shot about 1000 images yesterday at a horse show. I'd carefully checked that the time on the camera was right the night before. When I came to download the images I discovered . . . the date was wrong by one whole day.

The camera and computer must be the same time zone at least. That is a downside of it all in my experience. I would normally set the camera clock to my destination time, but since I now geotag photos I can't do that, which means unless I reset the time on all my photos after tagging them, photos taken in the US for example will always have the wrong time on them.
The Tagger itself uses UTC for it's logging - the program on the computer then converts that to the time zone on the computer.
Whilst we tend to take a laptop on holiday with us it is nowhere near powerful enough to do Raw to jpeg conversions (not that I'd want to spend half my holiday doing that anyway), so all my photos get geotagged at home on my home computer.

Thanks everyone, guess I will now be doing research and more research in this topic.