The Complete EasyTag Review

The EasyTag Review is at an end. Before shooting with EasyTag from EasyTagger Canada, I couldn’t totally remember where all of my shots exactly came from. When looking at my EasyTag Review Collection on Flickr, with the maps and images geotagged, knowing I had a respectable pictorial expedition, this geek is content.

Testing

On Day 1 I learned about the device

On Day 2 I took the Easy Tag too New York for a Photo Walk. I found out that the EasyTag has a slight issue around tall buildings.

EasyTag Signal Acquisition Reliability

The Easy tag takes a few minutes to obtain its signal from the orbiting satellites once turned on. Once the EasyTag acquires signal, no matter the speed of your movement, it’s on and it is consistent. You can be in a moving car, when you hit the shutter, the device gets the data.

Small Issues

The fact that the EasyTag only sits on the hot shoe is one issue. To have the ability to latch on to the camera strap somehow, so I can shoot with a flash on also, maybe a key ring would be great. Also, leaving the EasyTag switched on, while the camera is off, still drains the battery of the camera. I made this mistake. After about twenty four hours of not taking pictures , I pulled out my Nikon D90 and had one bar left. I was glad the extra battery was fully charged. When the EasyTag is drained, it will use the camera’s battery giving it extra range. The EasyTag, fully charged, on its own, will give ten hours of use.

When is it best used?

The EasyTag is best used in any sort of Travel Photography, taking images trying express the feeling of a time and place. Geotagging with the EasyTag gives others a chance to find and experience the photogenic locations, you shot at, for themselves. Another fantastic use of the EasyTag is Photo Walking, shooting photos, and generally having fun with other photographers.

Who is this device best for? Why?

The EasyTag, though it can work with every camera, works best with Nikon DSLR’s. The EasyTag easily integrates with Nikon’s DSLR’s by way of a cable, efficiently adding the GPS coordinates to the metadata of the image. For photographers owning multiple cameras, the EasyTag can be shared amongst many of the current Nikon DSLR’s with just a change of the cable. The EasyTag is a great device, I am glad I had the opportunity to test it out.

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Jerrry94087

This unit is very poorly made. Testing on Day 1 and Day 2 is nice, but try using it all the way to Day 40 and Day 100 and you will see that cable connecting gps unit to camera fails since it’s gps side end is made out of weak plastic and not heavy duty at all. Also the unit is plagues with bugs: one in 5-10 images doesn’t get tagged with Nikon D300, unit synchronizes with gps signal way too long, sometimes 10 minutes, sometimes it writes wrong (same) GPS coordinates into several sequential images. Sometimes it loses synchronization under the clear sky for no apparent reason. Sometimes light on the gps unit is steady (meaning that GPS signal is fine) and GPS indicator on the camera flashes (indicating there is no steady signal). Also magnetic compass never works.

Don’t buy this unit if you plan to use it for a long time, you will regret it. Go with some more robust and stable solution, like connecting hikers GPS to the camera.
Wiz

Just got my EasyTagger couple days ago.
Day 1 at beach could not in multiple tries get satellite lock (Apx 10-15min try times)
Day 2 took unit for walk along beach and left on, got first lock in apx 20-30 min (Didn’t check constantly)
My iPhone 5 (No WiFi) app MotionX locked in seconds and showed strong Satellite signal.
I found the unit was very quick to lose lock. Relocks after turning unit off then took 3 to 5 minutes.
I’d say the unit has very poor sensitivity and accuracy.
I feed the data into Google’s GPS Visualize and fount it showed me walking randomly on water out in bay. LOL but not funny.
I’d give this unit a Fail
iggy

I just purchased the newer version with the MTKII chipset and this thing rocks. It takes somewhere between 45 to 60 seconds to lock into the satellites(as long as you don’t move i.e. driving in a car). If you will like to compare the MTKII chipset with other chipsets please go to http://www.canadagps.com/KB_04.html The Auto geotag indoor feature works flawlessly, especially when you do your own geotagging with other software.

I purchased the Bluetooth version for my Nikon D7000, It works great but I use the self geotagging feature(recording coordinates every 10 sec) since my wife has a Sony NEX 5 and I geotag pictures from both cameras. Calibration is easy just follow the instructions.

I’m a MAC user and I use myTracks app that I downloaded from the Apple store for $15. Easytagger creates a txt. file, you will then go to GPS Visualizer website http://www.gpsvisualizer.com and convert the file to a GPX file. You will then load that GPX file into myTracks with the pictures and voila. The great thing about the eassytagger is that it writes the file with the location and time so you don’t have to worry with the offset time on the pictures when you geotag them. This way I can geotag my wife’s and my pictures. It really does not take that long FYI I take RAW pictures and I’m station in Guam and this thing works in this little island in the middle of the Pacific.

The flexibility of the geotagger was the reason I bough it. The Nikon GPS unit needs to be connected to the camera(limiting the use of the flash/hot shoe) at all times for it to work, with the eassytagger in the manual mode you don’t have to, the eassytagger it’s so small that I just leave it in my camera bag. There are other geotagging devices, but with old chipsets and for the same price.

Costumer service is top notch. Before I purchased the product I had a lot of questions and Bryan, easytagger costumer service representative was very quick with his responses, and very technical btw