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Bluetooth GPS for Photography

What I would really like to see in future cameras is bluetooth polling which pulls GPS data from bluetooth enabled GPS units.

EXIF tags for photos already have fields for GPS location. And rather than build GPS into cameras, which would be expensive and bulky, build in bluetooth instead. Make it a simple protocol so that when I tell the camera to fetch GPS data, it will go out and look for devices that provide GPS data and ask which one to get it from. Once the two are paired, it's pretty easy to grab data each time you click the shutter.

While there are some products that mimic this behavior in a way, the benefit of using bluetooth is clear. Cameras with bluetooth could print to bluetooth printers, push photos to other bluetooth devices including cameras and computers, and allow for bluetooth camera accessories, like triggers for studio lights.