Canon camera, GPS and EXIF data.

Dear colleagues:

A couple of questions I was hoping you would be able to help me with.

1. I remember a discussion at one of the newsgroups about the possibility to connect a portable GPS unit to a Nikon D2X digital SLR camera so that the GPS information would be embedded in every image. Is there such an option for making the same work on a Canon EOS 1Ds Mark II ? Is there a way to connect a portable GPS unit to the camera and capture GPS data ?

2. I've tried to view the metadata of image files created by my camera but have had no success. I had originally tried to use a regular text editor but wasn't seeing anything intelligible. After speaking with someone who has more experience I was told that I should try a hex editor instead since the image is all stored in hexadecimal format. Do any of you know of a good hexadecimal editor or reader for Mac OS X that would be able to read the hex information contained in raw files and allow me access to it ? In case you know of other software outside of hex editors that will do the same I would appreciate the suggestion.

Any information and suggestions on software as well as hardware will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance.

Best regards,

Joseph

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Dr. Joseph Chamberlain
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

"Joseph Chamberlain, DDS" wrote in message

2. I've tried to view the metadata of image files created by my camera but have had no success. I had originally tried to use a regular text editor but
wasn't seeing anything intelligible. After speaking with someone who has more experience I was told that I should try a hex editor instead since the
image is all stored in hexadecimal format. Do any of you know of a good hexadecimal editor or reader for Mac OS X that would be able to read the hex
information contained in raw files and allow me access to it ? In case you know of other software outside of hex editors that will do the same I would
appreciate the suggestion.

I might have missed the obvious here, but Adobe Bridge lets your view a wide range of metadata parameters as part of several of the work spaces.

You can view the metadata in Irfanview. It's a free download at www.irfanview.com