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For [GPS] menu setting procedures (→38)
Recording the place of recording with GPS
(Continued)
Recording Mode:
Using GPS
Select [GPS Setting] from the [GPS] menu (→38)
Use cursor button to select [ON] or and press [MENU/SET]
• To cancel, select [OFF]
[GPS Setting] Description
[ON] Even when the camera’s power is turned off, positioning is executed
periodically.
Positioning is executed only while the camera’s power is on. (It is not
executed while the camera’s power is off.)
[INFO] You can check the current reception status. (→78)
■Using in locations such as airplanes or hospitals
When [GPS Setting] is set to [ON], the GPS function operates even when the camera's
power is off.
Electromagnetic waves from the camera can affect instruments and meters. During
airplane takeoff and landing or in other restricted area, set [GPS Setting] to [OFF] or ,
then turn the camera’s power off.
• If the GPS status indicator lights up periodically while the camera’s power is off, [GPS
Setting] is set to [ON].
■ When [GPS Setting] is set to [ON] or
In Recording Mode, an icon that indicates the positioning status is displayed on the
LCD monitor.
When positioning is executed successfully, your current location is stored in the
camera’s memory, and the location name information appears on the screen.
Location name information
Icon Time elapsed after successful positioning
In last 5 minutes
From 5 minutes to 1 hour ago
From 1 hour to 2 hours ago
More than 2 hours ago
Positioning failed
●Even if GPS reception is good, it will take approximately 2 to 3 minutes
to successfully execute positioning under the following conditions; when
positioning is executed for the first time, or when positioning is executed after
the camera is turned off with the [GPS Setting] set to and then turned on
again or when [GPS Setting] is set to [OFF].
●The information of the current location stored in the camera’s memory is deleted at
the following times. (The information recorded on the pictures during recording is not
deleted.)
• When [GPS Setting] is set to [OFF]
• When [GPS Setting] is set to and then the camera’s power is turned off
• When the setup settings are reset with [Reset]
■ Information recorded on pictures
●If the positioning is executed successfully, the following information is recorded on the
still picture or the motion picture you recorded (except when [Rec Quality] is set to
[FSH] or [SH]).
• Latitude/longitude
• Location name information (Country/region, province/state, city/borough/county, town/village,
landmark)
● appears when the picture is played back.
■ Location name information
●The location name information consists of location names and landmarks that are
found via a search of the camera’s database based on the latitude and longitude
that were acquired in positioning, and the most appropriate items are displayed
(Sometimes the nearest items are not displayed.)
• If there are no location names or landmarks “---” is displayed even if positioning is successful.
Even when “---” is displayed, in some cases location name information can be selected in [GPS
Area Select] (→79).
• In some cases, the landmark that you are looking for may not have been registered. Location
name information, such as landmarks, is current as of December 2010. (Landmark types →149)
●The location name information (location name or landmark name) may be different
from the official name.
