Comments on: ATP Photo Finder

By: Roger

Roger — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 09:43:16 +0000

Thank to everyone who posted comments here – you have saved me much grief.
I will look at the Nikon P6000 with built-in GPS.

Regards
RB

By: Jim Bowes

Jim Bowes — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 10:56:03 +0000

This unit worked great with my old IXUS 400 but now that I have a new camera an Olympus u1030sw, the geotracker no longer seems able to geocode my files. What a pisser as with my old camera it worked very well. Also a bit dissappointing that I bought this because it was Mac compatible but now I see that the in computer solution is only for PC. That doesn’t seem very compatible to me.
Any suggestions would be most welcomed.

Thanks,
Jim

By: Doug

Doug — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 22:46:05 +0000

Fisher Price My first GPS Design….
NO Quality Control on product at all…. what are the guys doing the reviews on this thing smoking?

Wow what a piece of junk. Just ordered unit from costo. First thing I noticed was the battery contacts mounted off center in the battery compartement making contact with the – side of the battery impossible. Obvious quality control problem (or complete lack of it) since a quick Power on test at the factory would have found it. Then the unit comes up with the “GPS Error Power down 3 secs” message and powers itself off. 100% failure right out of the box… Nice. Can’t believe Costco carries this junk.

Caribiner is 100% lightweight plastic (not lightweight in term of composite material or carbon fiber) I mean really light weight. For the $ I expected it to be plastic, but not that low of quality. If you buy this picture a couple of guys assembling this in a garage (in Twain somewhere) and you get the idea. Screen is super tiny.

Agree with other posters. Idea is good design could be, but executed very poorly.

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:53:11 +0000

You could… the idea of products like this is that it is automatic and embeds the information into the picture’s meta data itself. So it saves time and work… when it works.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:49:23 +0000

Wouldn’t you accomplish the same thing if you had an exsisting GPS device, and just look at that and log the coordinates of each photo? seems like a waste of money to me. Just an opinion though.

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 19:17:45 +0000

This device will not tag pics on an SD card from a Nikon D60, even though the web site claims that is a compatible camera.
The device turns itself off randomly so all my trips are incomplete and in sections.
Sometimes the device will not turn off at all until I remove the battery.
Battery life is less than claimed.
The small screen uses a dark gray on black font and is unreadable in anything but a dark room.
The data shown is lat/long, it apparently does not calculate elevation.
The ‘work-around’ software hangs my system.
Even when the device is stationary, it shows that it is moving up to 200 yards in all directions, randomly. This level of inaccuracy is not acceptable.
The waypoints it shows in Google Earth have incorrect time stamps – possibly a bug when dealing with daylight savings time?
There is no tech support contact on the web site – just a useless FAQ.
I have had no response to my emails to the company.

I returned the device for a refund. As other comments said, good idea, terrible execution.

By: Paolo Bellini

Paolo Bellini — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:06:59 +0000

Can you tell me please where can I purchase the APT Photofinder in My city Milano italy?

By: Hans

Hans — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:08:52 +0000

Now I am really glad! After reading all previous comments I am happy to see that it is not me! I purchased my Photo Finder about 2 months back and used it extensively in Iceland, Middle East, Africa and Europe. Beside all the unprofessional hardware like the unreadable display, I did not manage to record one single day without mishaps. Very often the data recorded is corrupt and cannot be read by XP, Mac or Vista. It happens on a regular basis that in a Log-File a few minutes are recorded correctly and then the device obviously writes some corrupt data which destroyes the whole file or – if checked with a file checker – deletes everything behind the corrupt data. The software provided on the ATP homepage is a joke for itself: it crashes every now and then and is far away from being reliable. Because of my camera I cannot syncronise directly and therefore I need a software. Meanwhile I have found GeoSetter, a freeware which really deserves the name software.
I have already sent my ATP Photo Finder back to the company where I bought it, but they refused to take it back up to now. But I will not give up. ATP Photo Finder is only a waste of money!!

By: Victor

Victor — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:44:02 +0000

It does NOT work with RAW at all. I sent mine back

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:26:50 +0000

Can anyone confirm that this really doesn’t work with RAW (I shoot Canon)? This would be a huge disadvantage, but I don’t see that noted anywhere else.