A Dane in Luxembourg » RAW http://www.jhave.net Random observations Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:07:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 JOBO photoGPS reviewed at Digital Photography School http://www.jhave.net/wp/2009/05/20/jobo-photogps-reviewed-at-digital-photography-school/ http://www.jhave.net/wp/2009/05/20/jobo-photogps-reviewed-at-digital-photography-school/#comments Wed, 20 May 2009 05:39:24 +0000 jhave http://www.jhave.net/wp/2009/05/20/jobo-photogps-reviewed-at-digital-photography-school/

Digital School reviews the PhotoGPS. Doesn’t make any comment about it only supporting with XMP support. The reviewer probably uses Photoshop/Lightroom for workflow.

Hoping for some good news from the WWDC regarding XMP support in !

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jobophotogps.jpgAs stated in my previous post, there’s the run-down on the PhotoGPS (available at Fototrade, Luxembourg for 155€).
Derrick Story has been testing the device with his Mac and concludes that it is not bad. Your work flow gets a bit more complicated, but until the cameras will have GPS built-in, this is one of the better solutions. Derrick did however only shoot JPG’s and not in .

The software is very simple and easy to use and does a decent job of helping you sort out the of your photos. As stated in the manual for the software, the information is written directly to JPG photos and to a XMP sidecar file when it comes to files.

This is all good if you are shooting in JPG format, as the file can be imported into any of the major software programmes (, Adobe Lightroom, iPhoto).

Shooting in is more complicated. If you have a setup with Adobe Lightroom, you are fine. The XMP format was invented by Adobe, so the format is of course supported. When it comes to of iPhoto, you are (currently) out of luck, as these two programmes don’t support the XMP sidecar files. I haven’t been able to find any third party solution to the problem either.

So, if you are shooting and is using either or iPhoto for your photos, don’t buy the PhotoGPS as you won’t be able to import the information into these programmes.

I have submitted a ticket at regarding this, and I suggest you do the same :-) Maybe could come up with a solution, but I suppose they are more concerned with the Windows market…

UPDATE: as suggested by Derrick Story, you could go with a work flow that involves shooting +jpg and then stack the versions together in … I personally find that a bit too heavy a lifting…

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