I work for the Scientific Imaging Systems group at Eastman Kodak. http://www.kodak.com/go/scientific. Several years ago I conceived of, and wrote the software for a product we called the Field Imaging System FIS265. It was based on the DC265 which was the first Kodak camera to run the DigitaOS. I wrote a suite of scripts that ran in the camera and a plug in for the popular GIS mapping software ArcView. Another group at Kodak developed a nice bracket that held the camera together with a Garmin GPS III+. When you pressed the shutter button, the script captured the current GPS data and added a tag to the EXIF image header. Images could be transmitted anywhere and the GPS data would not be lost. The ArcView plug-in made it easy to add point symbols to any map at the location of each image capture. Click on a symbol and you would instantly see the image taken at that location. Pretty slick (IMHO). A very complete review, with pictures of the FIS265, and a tour of how it is used, can be found here: http://spatialnews.geocomm.com/newsletter/issue12/ demofis265.html
The same scripts would also run in a DC290. But the DC290's rev of the DigitaOS also made it possible to parse NEMA output from any GPS (I wrote scripts for that, too.)
For other reasons, Kodak decided not to use Digita in its future cameras, so the FIS265 was eventually discontinued: http://www.kodak.com/US/en/health/scientific/produ cts/fis265/ This was a shame, because shortly after that, the US military dropped SA and the system performance was about 5 times better at no extra cost!
-Doug
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I work for the Scientific Imaging Systems group at Eastman Kodak. http://www.kodak.com/go/scientific. Several years ago I conceived of, and wrote the software for a product we called the Field Imaging System FIS265. It was based on the DC265 which was the first Kodak camera to run the DigitaOS. I wrote a suite of scripts that ran in the camera and a plug in for the popular GIS mapping software ArcView. Another group at Kodak developed a nice bracket that held the camera together with a Garmin GPS III+. When you pressed the shutter button, the script captured the current GPS data and added a tag to the EXIF image header. Images could be transmitted anywhere and the GPS data would not be lost. The ArcView plug-in made it easy to add point symbols to any map at the location of each image capture. Click on a symbol and you would instantly see the image taken at that location. Pretty slick (IMHO). A very complete review, with pictures of the FIS265, and a tour of how it is used, can be found here: http://spatialnews.geocomm.com/newsletter/issue12/ demofis265.html
The same scripts would also run in a DC290. But the DC290's rev of the DigitaOS also made it possible to parse NEMA output from any GPS (I wrote scripts for that, too.)
For other reasons, Kodak decided not to use Digita in its future cameras, so the FIS265 was eventually discontinued: http://www.kodak.com/US/en/health/scientific/produ cts/fis265/ This was a shame, because shortly after that, the US military dropped SA and the system performance was about 5 times better at no extra cost!
-Doug