Leica introduce camera with GPS and Geotagging
Date: Thursday, April 22 @ 13:54:35 UTC
Topic:
 Leica, manufacturers of high quality luxury compact cameras have added a GPS equipped model to their range.
The Leica V-Lux 20 is a 12.1 megapixel compact equipped with a 12x optical zoom and GPS for geotagging. GPS tagging of images is supported by many photo library applications
This is the first Leica to feature a GPS and it will record your exact location and save that to the Exif data in the image file.
Leica also state it can "can display the names of interesting sightseeing locations from a total of 500,000 ‘points of interest’ across 73 countries" which is novel although quite how useful that will be is hard to assess.
In addition the V-Lux 20 has a HD Movie recording facility and a 7.5cm LCD for framing photos. Auto and manual control of shutter speed and aperture is provided and an image stabiliser reduces blur and shake.
Leica also bundle Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 with each camera. Available in the UK from May 2010. RRP is a very un-Leica like £495. For more information visit www.leica-camera.co.uk.
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