Digital camera captioning

[Wintermute]

Does anyone know of a digital camera that allows captioning from the camera?

Here is what I am trying to do. I recently started a new company that purchases fairly new homes 5+ years old, and then rents them to families with low to moderate incomes. These are much nicer homes then what they would typically get for the same money. When I take my trips I will normally visit 20+ homes in a day, and they all start to blur into 1 big jumble of houses. I want to be able to take my digital camera, and to take photos with captions. That way when I get back to the hotel I can download them to my PC, and have a list of all the homes I looked at. I have seen the feature in the past, but am having a hard time finding it now.

[Troberg]

I don't know about that, but there are digital cameras with GPS, which tags the pictures with their coordinates.

You can also do it with a separate GPS logger (I use this: http://www.amazon.com/Sony-GPS-CS1-C.../dp/B000HDIYEO , which despite the title, works nice with any camera). Chuck the supplied software, though, it's crap. There are many better, I use DigiKam.

Sure, you don't get coordinates when indoors, but it will use the closest coordinate (which will either be when entering or leaving the building).

You can click a picture and get a position on a map. Works nicely for me.

[CSGirl]

Hm. I think on my camera you can change the prefix to the picture names, which would probably work too. I can't remember if it's my current camera (Nikon Coolpix) or my old one (Casio Exilim). That may be easier to find though.

[Rixel]

Originally Posted by Wintermute

Does anyone know of a digital camera that allows captioning from the camera?

Here is what I am trying to do. I recently started a new company that purchases fairly new homes 5+ years old, and then rents them to families with low to moderate incomes. These are much nicer homes then what they would typically get for the same money. When I take my trips I will normally visit 20+ homes in a day, and they all start to blur into 1 big jumble of houses. I want to be able to take my digital camera, and to take photos with captions. That way when I get back to the hotel I can download them to my PC, and have a list of all the homes I looked at. I have seen the feature in the past, but am having a hard time finding it now.

A couple cameras in the panasonic lineup (ZS1 and ZS3 for example) do have the ability to add any text to the surface of an image. It's hidden deep within the "Playback" settings when you're looking at an image and it's a bit of an annoyance because you'll have to type it out using the Directional Pad on the camera but otherwise it sounds like what you're looking for.

[jimmy101_again]

I think you best bet is the old school way. The way photog's have been keeping track of photos for a hundred years or so.

Carry a small noteboook and write a note for each photo. This method actually works better with a digital camera than it does a film camera since the digital camera typically numbers the photos sequentialy. With film it's easy to lose track of the frame numbers once the film is developed and cut into more manageable strips.

A notebook will also probably be 10x faster than trying to enter a text memo using the keys available on the camera.

One other possiblity would be ... does the camera have the ability to do voice recording? Perhaps even voice annotations? If you can add to the same recording then that would keep the voice notes in the proper order.

Or, take a still then switch to a low res video mode and film the home as you describe the address etc. (Many digital cameras have a video mode.)