On the ATP Electronics GPS PhotoFinder

This will be brief.

The ATP Electronics GPS Photofinder doesn’t work. Mine is in a box on it’s way back to the folks at B&H.

And I’m out 3 hours and round trip shipping…

To be precise, and why not, it is a tiny battery sucking GPS with a sub-microscopic display. Not only is the display small, tiny just begins to convey it’s lack of size, it cannot be read by humans when viewed while the sun is up (which is when I do most of my photography…) The three LED confirmation system that augments the really tiny and unreadable-in-sunlight LCD display is just dim enough that you have to hold the device up to your face to see confirm that the thing is working. Holding the unit will, in almost every case, cause the PhotoFinder to lose satellites.

Along the worthless display and the dim blinking LED’s, comes the third strike, it doesn’t actually do the one thing that made it worth considering. Sure it logs Latitude and Longitude but that’s not so hard. In the end this device is a one trick pony. It is supposed to append GPS info directly onto JPEGs stored on SD cards in the field.

And it doesn’t.