6 Crazy Tricks for Digital Cameras and Photos

In this story, you'll learn how to make high-def, time-lapse video from your ordinary point-and-shoot digital camera, how to geotag your photos even if your camera can't do it, and how to draw messages with light on live photographs. (Why? Just because!)

For more, see the other stories in our "57 Amazing Things You Didn't Know Your Tech Could Do!" package, including our full list of tips and tricks.

Geotag Photos Even If Your Camera Can't

In years past you may have charted your travels using the old pins-on-a-map method. Now, in the digital age, you can mimic that approach by storing your photos by location. Many cell phones and a few specialty cameras already geotag your location, embedding the data in your pictures.

If you don't have a camera capable of geotagging, you can use a GPS digital imaging accessory to add location information after the fact. Sony's US$150 GPS-CS3KA, for instance, works with many cameras and camcorders, and keeps track of your location and the time. Just turn it on, and go shoot. Back at your PC, the gadget's software matches the time you took a picture, which is recorded on the camera, with the location data the GPS-CS3KA has recorded. That geotag data gets stored in the photo's EXIF (exchangeable image file format) profile.

If you don't have a GPS device, you can manually enter location details at your PC with the free program GeoSetter. After you do, the application can show your images as pins in a Google Maps pane built into the program. The process updates EXIF details so that the locations appear in other applications.

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