Nikon Corp will introduce a new compact digital camera featuring GPS unit and LAN connection. Coolpix P6000 comes equipped with a GPS unit for location recording and cable-connected LAN port as well as 13 megapixel CCD which has 64-6400 ISO high sensitivity. The P6000 also has a hot shoe for external flash and records images both in JPEG and RAW formats in SDHC/SD memory card and 48MB built-in memory.

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  Weasel at 10:40 AM JST - 22nd August

  This camera is the epitome of technology that has gone berserk. Seriously, it's bad enough that people want to photograph every since moment of their lives, but now the need to document the coordinates on which they took their photographs, and publish this on the Internet? Can't people just look at the photographs and make the determination where the photo was taken?

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  sk4ek at 10:55 AM JST - 22nd August

  Actually, this technology is in great demand in the corporate and government sectors. Workers who need to document the time, date, and location of construction work (in a way that can't be fiddled with), government agencies that need to record (for example) the location of photographs taken for evidentiary reasons, etc. will all find this useful. While such systems have been in development using mobile phones--which can take the pictures, record location, and even link the photo to a particular map object--the quality of the photos and the relative fragility of the phone itself have been drawbacks.

  From the non-consumer point of view, though, this camera still doesn't get it right; without a wireless transmission capability, it lacks the on-site, real time data upload functionality that a phone could provide, and it almost certainly lacks the software needed to make it truly useful for corporate and government applications.

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  imacat at 11:36 AM JST - 22nd August

  This is a great product.

  You guys should try one of those GPS travel-loggers. Just put it in your bag when you go on a trip and switch it on.

  Come home, upload your pics to your computer, upload the GPS data from the travel-logger and with a few clicks you can make a really cool map on google earth tracking your movements and the pics taken at each point. It really is a fun way to look back at your trip.

  It's just inconvenient to have a digital camera and a separate GPS travel-logger, but now this camera has solved that problem! Great technology and one for the Christmas list ;-)

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  dennis0bauer at 03:26 PM JST - 22nd August

  also handy for the police when they snatch the guys who make less decent pictures.

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  888naff at 06:50 PM JST - 22nd August

  At last a camera with built in gps, don't have to buy those separate gps devices anymore and spend any time syncing gps data to photo exif data... or doing it manually in google earth. Will make it easier to use the functionality in the like of zooomr or flickr or picasa photo sharing websites.

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  nisegaijin at 12:26 PM JST - 28th August

  They are coming up with DSLR that does that too.

  And check it out, its gonna take movies too!!

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  cwhite at 04:53 PM JST - 31st August

  thats one ugly camera, much better to have a mini-USB port to attach your favorite GPS device.

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  cwhite at 04:54 PM JST - 31st August

  actually bluetooth would be better

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