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My point and shoot did that like 5-10 years ago. Crazy that DSLRs don't.

avh02 9y ago
When I bought my most recent DSLR, I had to pick between a slighly older model with GPS or the latest model with wifi. They were essentially identical other than that I think, maybe touchscreen?
tolien 9y ago
They do (or at least, my Canon EOS 7D mark 2 does). However, leaving the GPS switched on significantly reduces battery life.
- matthewrudy 9y ago
  Same with the 6D. It seems even when power is off it runs the GPS, so you leave it switched off overnight, and the next day your battery is always dead.
  - tolien 9y ago
    Yeah. It takes absolutely ages to lock, so I can see why you’d want to keep going if the camera was switched off (for a short while) though.
- throwanem 9y ago
  My D5300's GPS doesn't hurt battery life. Of course, it also doesn't work, because the camera sleeps it along with everything else when it goes idle, so it never has time to get a good lock. The way you solve this is by disabling idle sleep. That doesn't hurt the battery, either; it kills it. This is legitimately frustrating, unlike a lot of the frankly scattershot and silly business in the article. (XQD on entry-level cameras? Five times the media cost? Yeah, the market wasn't small enough already...)
  - arethuza 9y ago
    I bought a Canon point and shoot a few years back to use in situations where I'd be worried about losing the camera (e.g. on a ski lift) and I got one with GPS - it has to be the crappiest GPS in existence, it does work but takes about 30 minutes to get a fix, which is pretty much unusable.
- shezi 9y ago
  To be fair, GPS hardware is power-hungry in all devices. Even on cell-phones, GPS eats battery. Here's a Google Engineer's word on the issue: https://www.itworld.com/article/2833266/mobile/why-gps-eats-so-much-battery-power--explained-by-a-google-engineer.html https://www.itworld.com/article/2833266/mobile/why-gps-eats-...
- charrondev 9y ago
  Canon 5d IV here. I tend not to notice a significant issue with battery life when I have the GPS on (always). I do notice if use the live view mode though.

When I bought my most recent DSLR, I had to pick between a slighly older model with GPS or the latest model with wifi. They were essentially identical other than that I think, maybe touchscreen?

tolien 9y ago

They do (or at least, my Canon EOS 7D mark 2 does). However, leaving the GPS switched on significantly reduces battery life.

matthewrudy 9y ago
Same with the 6D. It seems even when power is off it runs the GPS, so you leave it switched off overnight, and the next day your battery is always dead.
- tolien 9y ago
  Yeah. It takes absolutely ages to lock, so I can see why you’d want to keep going if the camera was switched off (for a short while) though.
throwanem 9y ago
My D5300's GPS doesn't hurt battery life. Of course, it also doesn't work, because the camera sleeps it along with everything else when it goes idle, so it never has time to get a good lock. The way you solve this is by disabling idle sleep. That doesn't hurt the battery, either; it kills it. This is legitimately frustrating, unlike a lot of the frankly scattershot and silly business in the article. (XQD on entry-level cameras? Five times the media cost? Yeah, the market wasn't small enough already...)
- arethuza 9y ago
  I bought a Canon point and shoot a few years back to use in situations where I'd be worried about losing the camera (e.g. on a ski lift) and I got one with GPS - it has to be the crappiest GPS in existence, it does work but takes about 30 minutes to get a fix, which is pretty much unusable.
shezi 9y ago
To be fair, GPS hardware is power-hungry in all devices. Even on cell-phones, GPS eats battery. Here's a Google Engineer's word on the issue: https://www.itworld.com/article/2833266/mobile/why-gps-eats-so-much-battery-power--explained-by-a-google-engineer.html https://www.itworld.com/article/2833266/mobile/why-gps-eats-...
charrondev 9y ago
Canon 5d IV here. I tend not to notice a significant issue with battery life when I have the GPS on (always). I do notice if use the live view mode though.