I am sorting out my photos on flickr, placing them in sets and collection and I just started to place them on the map when I hit a really, really hard problem.
See, I got hundreds of photos from my last vacation, all nice and uploaded to flickr, and they even have tags and all, and they are in the correct set – photos from Madrid are in the Madrid set, Barcelona pics in the Barcelona, etc -, but there are loads that I can’t place on the map.
10 years, or even 2 years ago it would not have bothered me. They were taken in Barcelona, see, they look good, and I wish I was back there.
But now, I just sit here, staring at the map, trying to remember where did I take this photo? The thing is, if you put me down in Barcelona, or Madrid, or Paris, I would find the place again without fail, but now on the map it is rather hard. And what good is a map if you can’t place the picture at the exact right spot?
In May I’ll go to France to visit a friend, and I am sure I will make a lot of pictures again, and this time I want to know where I take them, so I could place them on the map. For that I will need a way to record the GPS coordinates to the photo, but I don’t know how to do that. I don’t own an expensive camera which has a function like that, all I got is a Canon PS A530, and hopefully I wil own a Nikon D40 by then, but neither of those have a built-in GPS, and I don’t know any gadgets that can be connected to them.
Is there any sensible way? Anyone got a tip?
I have a very different type of problem with my old photos: have thousands of prints and slides from the pre-digital age, sitting in a pile in Hungary while I live in California.
I decided to turn my short visit to Budapest into a photo-saving project: take all negatives, selectively pick some slides (they are bulky) and send them to be digitized. I also re-shot the older, hopelessly poor pix with a digicam (just shot the prints in albums).
Can you imagine the resulting chaos when all of a sudden I’ll have 1000+ digital pics, some over 20 years old? :-)
I hear you :)
I have 13 rolls of film taken in Greece with my good old Smena 8, and I want to digitalize them.
Wouldn’t it be better though if you packed up your photos and sort it all out when you return home?
As I take, you’ll be visiting family, time is short., and so on.
I’m here in Budapest now, and have neither the equipment nor the time to process it all here, so I’ll be taking all the negatives and selected slides back to CA. Can’t take all the slides, that would be an extra suitcase:-)
I found a service that’s scans from negatives, re-touches it..etc, and are relatively affordable, so I will ship off a big package to them. They then let e pick the ones I want in hi-res online, and only pay for those.
Well, what is FexEx for? :)
But seriously, your solution is better – and cheaper.
It’s just too bad we have such a rainy, cloudy weather now.
Hope your stay goes well :)