Jobo PhotoGPS2 Review - First review of Jobo's 2010 Hotshoe GPS Geotagger
Sunday, June 27, 2010 at 12:17AM 
Ever since iPhoto added location based functionality I've wanted a camera that could take advantage of it. I'm not an SLR user - being very much just a holiday snapshots type of chap. That being said, I still want my snapshots to be as sharp as possible.
It seemed to take an age for the manufactures of compact cameras to integrate GPS into their devices - the first model that I knew about was the rather poor Nikon P6000. Another couple of models slowly limped to market - all of them getting equally poor reviews (the GPS didn't really work and killed the battery in the process). So I gave up waiting and got my (non-GPS) Panasonic LX3 - the best compact available within my budget (and at the time, the best within any budget).
I still longed after a GPS equipped camera though (as always if you can't get something it makes it even more desirable). I've tried a keychain GPS geotagging dongle in the past and it just wasn't up for the job. Either I could set it to save its co-ordinates on a short interval ( so it's battery would only last a couple of hours) or lengthen the interval and make the data inaccurate and useless. The software was useless too and didn't work on my Mac.
I had my eye on the Jobo Photo GPS hotshoe device before - but it's SLR scale bulk and price put me off. So I was very pleased to see Jobo re-launching their hot-shoe GPS logger as a new smaller and cheaper device. The new model for 201o is called the PhotoGPS2 and it looks like it will be just the ticket. I pre-ordered one from Germany and I now present you with the first video review of the 2010 Jobo PhotoGPS2.
Reader Comments (4)
Any way you can post or email me how you ordered this. I can only find the first version and not many of those. Thanks and cool site.
Here you go - direct link to the place I ordered it from
http://www.technikdirekt.de/main/en/foto/foto-analog/foto-analog-zubehoer/428218/-/article-jobo-photogps-2.html
They also sell the PhotoGPS4 (more memory).
Thanks, now I need to see if they ship to the US.
What a great, and helpful, review of this product. Thanks very much for doing that. It's convinced me that the photoGPS is what I want to geo-tag my pix. Cheers!!