Originally Posted by
arthurking83
I don't have the D5600, but do have the D5500.
Remember only the D5300(model previous to the D5500) has the built in GPS.
Nikons GP-1 model GPS devices can be used on the 5500 and 5600, but are the most useless accessory available.
Will kill your battery in less than 100 shots. Avoid this GPS at all costs.
Any wired GPS actually, they all drain battery very quickly.
I'll poke around and see what half decent bluetooth GPS accessories are available for 'ya too. Many products once available have dropped off the earth now.
Anyhow, once you have the camera, the D5600 has the ability to read the GPS data from your smartphone(if your smartphone has GPS)
So you connect the camera via wifi to the smartphone, have the smartphone's GPS enabled, and the camera will set GPS data into the images from the smartphone ... no need for any other GPS devices.
That's the theory! .. the reality may be far from it tho. I've tried to use wifo connected to smartphone on the D5500, and was nothing but a hair loss exercise. After 10 mins of not connecting, I gave up!
I'm generally patient, and like the challenge of working out why stuff that should work, doesn't! .. But this one from Nikon was beyond painfully stupid.
I heard that they updated the wifi app for the smartphone, so maybe things have changed. if it works, there'ya'go .. easy GPS data in your images.
I think it works better on Android than iOS(from what I've read).
Note too, I hate Nikon's latest software, but they do have some useful features.
You don't even need a GPS to add GPS data to your images.
ViewNX-i(which I hate passionately!!!) has this feature, where you can estimate your GPS data from a map in the program, and then send that estimated location data to the images.
Works good.
ViewNX2 originally did this, but VNX2 no longer supported .. won't work with the D5600 camera, so VNX-i is one way to get location data into your images.
And the maps no longer work in VNX2. So only reason I have VNX-i is for those times when I want to edit gps data in images via maps.
eg. say you were at Uluru, and you had photos of it, and you knew approx where you were for a shot.
In ViewNX-i, you use the Map menu, and in there you find the place you were at on the map, and you can then pin the image to that location. This method doesn't output direction or elevation data if this is important. Only Lat/Lon.
Sometimes that's good enough, sometimes elevation can also be handy tho.
The other thing you can do with an external GPS is to tracklog one. That is, leave the GPS on all the time, and it makes a tracklog. ViewNX-i has the ability to then geo reference your collection of images if you upload this tracklog into VNX-i, then do some stuff and it pins them to the tracklog(or something). Never used it myself .. may try one day.
As for video quality .. actual quality is fine. More of the quality of a video is dependent on the operator(not the device).
Where Nikon really falls down is in many of the spec in the device capturing the video(AF, mics, levels, ie. tweaking settings to get better video)
But with a stabilised lens, the look of the video will be fine.
OH! and don't use AF with video on a Nikon using any lens not marked AF-P. Sound is horrendous. AF-P lenses do a good job of keeping quiet during AF.