Pharos Trips and Pics Photo Linked Portable GPS Unit

by Pharos

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 7.5 x 2.5 inches ; 12 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000XX13EQ
• Item model number: PTP10
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)

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 to 45 days of times and locations. The rechargeable battery will run the unit for 24 hours. An AC charger is included in the package. Tech Support Hotline: 1-888-PHAROS-8

Customer Reviews

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great digital camera add-on, June 8, 2008

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Garry Hu (Boston, MA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pharos Trips and Pics Photo Linked Portable GPS Unit (Electronics)

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.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Works but not a drive., September 5, 2008

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Tom Dowd (Napa, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pharos Trips and Pics Photo Linked Portable GPS Unit (Electronics)

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.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Using the Pharos Trip & Pics GPS Trip Logger, February 11, 2008

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Bolton S. Pierce Jr. (Reston VA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pharos Trips and Pics Photo Linked Portable GPS Unit (Electronics)

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