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Batteries Included: 1
Binding: Electronics
Brand: Pharos
EAN: 0818948002709
Item Dimensions: 250105080750
Label: Pharos
Manufacturer: Pharos
Model: PTP10
MPN: PTP10
Publisher: Pharos
Studio: Pharos
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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Editorial Review:
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.
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
Based on a review from someone who bought this item, who said that the software did NOT add the GPS coordinates to the EXIF file for a .jpg image, I decided to remove this from my wish list and continue to use my Garmin GPS, which works just fine for recording the GPS coordinates and I can add the data to the EXIF file later.
Rating: -
Bought Pharos Trips & Pics a little over a year ago. Paid around $90.00 for it. Never got it to work on my desktop or laptop. Tried to work with Pharos tecs. Never got a response. The long & short of it is I could never get it to work as advertized. Simply put, it's a piece of JUNK. This is only my opinion, but don't waste your money.
Rating:  -
Pros:
* Very accurate GPS receiver.
* "Trips and Pics" software is very flexible when used in "Classic mode".
* Data can be exported into GPX format, which can then be used to set in combination with open-source GeoSetter to geotag both RAW, DNG, and JPEG photos according to metadata.
* Easy export to Google Earth is very cool.
* Very simple operation (only an on / off switch on device).
* Easy to use for novices and flexible enough for power users.
Cons
* Small amount of memory, probably no more than 8 MB, which limits the devices recording potential when away from PC to dump data. Memory is cheap nowadays. It feels like could have included 32x more memory (256 MB) for $1 more.
* Battery docks are expensive when bought directly from Pharos, so don't plan on being away from a charger if you plan to use it for 24+ hours unless you want to pony up the cash.
* Built-in JPEG geotagging support is lame. It ignores any timestamp metadata and instead just syncs up with the file create date. Took me a while to figure that out. Might work fine for novice users, but annoyed me. Use GeoSetter instead.
* Doesn't come with drivers for Vista x64. Annoying. Took me 30 minutes to find drivers.
I feel like this little device got overlooked in the market. I got one for Christmas this year, and it's easily the best gift I've received in a while. It's so much fun to take it with me when I travel or go out to take pics. It's very well priced too in my opinion. My gripes aren't really show stoppers for me, so overall, I highly recommend it.
Rating: -
This is for Windows machines only. It doesn't work on a mac. Their downloadable "mac os x driver" is an .exe file that might run on some version of windows but it's jibberish to a mac with OS 10.5. I would be happy to just download raw data, but that's not possible. And Google Earth no longer supports gps unless you get Google Earth Pro, which means you need to pay more $$ to subscribe to that. If you search for "macintosh" or "mac" or "os x" on their website, you'll find zero entries. Mac users don't exist to these people.
What's the solution? The GiSTEQ website describes how to get their GPS unit to work with your mac: find a windows machine and go through about 15 steps, then get a virtual vista machine going on your mac, and go through about 15 more steps, then go back to the regular mac os and in 15 more steps you're finished. maybe. Are they kidding? That's like saying you can read Chinese, just find a guy who speaks it, get him to translate, and read what he wrote for you. It looks like the iphone might be the only real gps option for mac users, thanks to lack of interest by other manufacturers, who frankly don't deserve our business if they can't be bothered to make their gadgets work for us.
Rating:  -
I'm fairly savvy regarding computers and programs. This one has me stumped. I used on a trip to Greece and Italy.
Admittedly, I didn't use the software manual (there is no printed one)
before using. While the GPS receiver did log MOST of my travels, some it
did not, perhaps my fault, but all you're supposed to do is just turn
it on. So far, I have had limited results geotagging photos to the GPS
trail. As the song said: "It's gotta be me". I'll keep fooling with
it until I get it, but be aware, it's not just a "plug and play" device.
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