Have you lost your camera recently? Mislaid it somewhere in a national park? Left it in a taxi? Dropped it in the gorilla pit? Anyone can be a victim of the thoughtlessness and/or sleepiness that can lead to Camera Loss.
How can I prevent Camera Loss? I hear you ask, wishing Id get to the point. Well, you cant prevent cameras from getting lost, but you can do something so your camera can be found very soon after it has vanished.

All you have to do is take some photos which you never delete from your camera so when someone finds your camera at the bottom of the gorilla pit they are able to locate you and return the lost property to its rightful owner.

To illustrate just how you can safeguard your camera from the crippling effects of Camera Loss, here are the pics that I always keep on my camera.

For better effect, click on the first pic then use the right arrow for slideshow effect.

-- Edited by Delta18 on Saturday 23rd of January 2010 10:22:25 PM

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Losing a camera is heart breaking, Left one on the bonnet of my disco at the Olgas in July 09, over a 1000 pics of my trip from Tassie to Perth, up to Wiluna, across the gunbarrel Highway to the Olgas. Camera and lense woth about $1500, pictures, priceless.I was travelling solo so there were numerous pics of my vehicle showing number plate, all I wanted back was the card with my pics. Reported to police, put message out on HF radio network and also uhf.
cheers
blaze

I have all my "toys", credit cards and vital documents registered with Secure Sentinel They provide stickers with a 1800 number to attach to your stuff.  They also provide a "one stop shop" to report any losses to.  I also have my drivers licence number (including state) engraved into the toys.  Still won't prevent theft, and finding something and not handing it in is legally considered theft,  but at least it gives an "honest" finder and/or the Police the means to return the goods to it's owner.

PS: I definitely would not put any personal details (other than a drivers licence that has to cross-referenced to be of any use to a thief) such as email, phone no, etc on the items.

-- Edited by jimricho on Sunday 24th of January 2010 08:04:40 AM

I lost mine up at Alice springs last year, left my car door unlocked and a dark laddy "found it" on the seat, unfortunately he figgered finders keepers and legged it, all up around the $3,000 mark of camera, double life side grip battery pack and lenses/filters and micro drives with roughly 600 photos on it, all around two months old (I'm a bit of a camera nut and had recently upgraded) my insurance paid out for all but around $500 worth, but it's not the camera it's the memory's, we had a big gathering at that stage at uluru, some of the folks on that micro drive have now passed, so the piccys that were on it are irreplaceable

I actually found a camera myself on the rockwall at the Streaky Bay boat ramp last November.

It was a 300? SLR (the one before the 350D)  in a large bag, spare lens, mini tripod etc but no owner details.

I rang the local police station and left my contact details with them.  Next day a very relieved gentleman and his wife called and collected it.  Two days later they dropped off a nice bottle of red for me. 

It is a good feeling to see a happy owner reunited with their treasured possessions.  It was a 60th birthday pressy to him from his kids.

Cheers Neil

if you are anywhere near the Alice and you see a lad with a 50d and all attachments and you manage to get the thing back with microdrive's intact, there will be more than a bottle of red in it for you!!!

I'll go looking, I need a little drive. lol

Cheers neil