Customer Reviews

Nikon MC-35 GPS Adapter Cord for Nikon Digital SLR Cameras

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Great cord for hooking up your GPS unit and Nikon compatible camera. This allows you to record the longitude, latitude, elevation, and heading. The only downside is making sure that the GPS unit is pointed in the same direction as the camera and the GPS is not in "sleep" mode. My camera, the D300, will let you know if the GPS is not active. As a professional, it's nice to be able to locate those special locations by just looking at the image data and also knowing what direction you were shooting.

Cord works as advertised, providing half the interface to a Garmin GPS but it has several disconcerting characteristics
1. Cord adapts compatible Nikon SLRs to GPs units so that GPS data can be recorded in EXIF files. However the cord termininates in an RS 232 connector and a 2nd cord with RS-232 to Garmin interface is required for the GPS data transfer to occur. A single cord with Nikon to Garmin connectors would be much more convenient
2. The RS-232 connectors have 2 screws to insure that this connection doesn't separate. Howver the threads and sockets are mismatched so the screws can't be used. On occasion my RS 232 coupling separated
3. The NIkon cord is very expensive and very short. The Garmin portion of the cable pair is much longer and 1/3 the price of the Nikon cord

I purchased one of these units for my D200 in June 2006 when they were in quite short supply. The price is a bit high but for effortless GPS tagging of photographs, nothing beats the Nikon solution. The only thing that is still missing (even from the D3/D300) is a 'GPS' indicator in the viewfinder. Since the 'GPS' indicator is only visible on the top screen of the camera you are generally unaware if the GPS has lost it's signal until after the picture has been taken.

I purchased this cord adapter for use on my Nikon D200 so I could connect a GPS unit to it. It woks well, mates properly to the connector that is also needed from the GPS. It is too bad that one cable could not do this whole task, but, maybe this is all tied up with different companies making their own rules.

The MC-35 arrived before the estimated date, in the original packaging and in perfect condition. It mated securely with my Garmin PC serial Interface cable (010-10141-00), also from Amazon. Easy parameter setup on my GPSMAP 60CSx, as detailed in the Garmin manual. Now I can geotag all my photos taken with my Nikon D700 and D200. No problems, very satisfied with both products and transactions. Note: Prior to these purchases I did have to spend time carefully researching the compatibility of specific Garmin GPS units and interface cables, wrt connectivity with Nikon cameras. But it was worth it.

I bought the MC-35 to attach to my D-200 for a trip to Africa two summers ago. It worked very well and I would have given it five stars. However, after 10 days in the mountains and 5 days on a safari, the cord on the Nikon end started to fray and come apart. It's impossible to find duct tape out in the middle of the savanna. The price of these things has come down considerably so they are actually a pretty good deal. I would recommend reinforcing the cable at the connector.

I bought the MC-35 to connect an GPS unit to my Nikon D200.
It did what it suppose to do as an interface between the camera and GPS BUT!!
I can't understand way I should have to use two boxes connected to each other and then to the camera when it would have been much more convenient to have it all in one box!

Then I found this solution:
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