Lost Camera (Y Garn, Snowdonia)

Richard Phillips said:

Hello all,

Not expecting to see it again, but I left my camera near the summit
of Y Garn yesterday, if anyone finds it... it's a Sony P-93 or
something, will probably be in a tough grey case with Pixmania on it.

Cheers,
Richard.

It's found!!

R.

Richard Phillips said:

Richard Phillips said:

Hello all,

Not expecting to see it again, but I left my camera near the summit
of Y Garn yesterday, if anyone finds it... it's a Sony P-93 or
something, will probably be in a tough grey case with Pixmania on it.

Cheers,
Richard.

It's found!!

Lucky you! Was it found through here or other means. Just curious.
--
Phil Cook, last hill: Angletarn Pikes via Beda Fell.
http://www.p-t-cook.freeserve.co.uk/May07/martin9.htm

Phil Cook said:

Richard Phillips said:

Richard Phillips said:

Hello all,

Not expecting to see it again, but I left my camera near the summit
of Y Garn yesterday, if anyone finds it... it's a Sony P-93 or
something, will probably be in a tough grey case with Pixmania on
it.

Cheers,
Richard.

It's found!!

Lucky you! Was it found through here or other means. Just curious.

Someone handed it in to Merseyside police! I'll make sure I send them a
thankyou somehow... The police traced us because a few of the photos I'd
taken in the campsite had my girlfriend's car in the shot next to our tent,
so they just looked up the reg and saw that she'd reported a missing
camera...

R.

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from "Richard Phillips" <[email hidden]> contains these words:

Quoted message said:

Someone handed it in to Merseyside police! I'll make sure I send them a
thankyou somehow... The police traced us because a few of the photos I'd
taken in the campsite had my girlfriend's car in the shot next to our tent,
so they just looked up the reg and saw that she'd reported a missing
camera...

Last year I found a 35mm film (not the camera) on Bidean nam Bian, and
had it processed for just that purpose, but, alas, no number plates
visible, just people and mountains. Obviously tourists from afar, I
suppose, because postings on the MCofS bulletin board, and this forum
had no takers.

Moral, I suppose, is always start with the car!

Richard

Richard Phillips said:

Someone handed it in to Merseyside police! I'll make sure I send
them a thankyou somehow... The police traced us because a few of the
photos I'd taken in the campsite had my girlfriend's car in the shot
next to our tent, so they just looked up the reg and saw that she'd
reported a missing camera...

Good idea! I sometimes take a shot or two at the start of a walk, and
sometimes I include the car. Maybe I'll make a point of doing that from now
on. At least I may get the flash card back! ;-)

Paul

Paul Saunders said:

Good idea! I sometimes take a shot or two at the start of a walk, and
sometimes I include the car. Maybe I'll make a point of doing that from now
on. At least I may get the flash card back! ;-)

You could always put your name and address on the camera... ;-)

Pete.
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Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital
Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK
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Peter Clinch said:

Quoted message said:

Good idea! I sometimes take a shot or two at the start of a walk, and
sometimes I include the car. Maybe I'll make a point of doing that
from now on. At least I may get the flash card back! ;-)

You could always put your name and address on the camera... ;-)

My name is in there, it's recorded with every photograph.

Paul

Paul Saunders said:

My name is in there, it's recorded with every photograph.

somewhat more esoteric than a label on the back that anyone can read
without turning it on and faffing with it, and a contact telephone
number to call though. Why make it hard for people?

Pete.
--
Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer
Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital
Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK
net [email hidden] http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/

Peter Clinch said:

Quoted message said:

My name is in there, it's recorded with every photograph.

somewhat more esoteric than a label on the back that anyone can read
without turning it on and faffing with it, and a contact telephone
number to call though. Why make it hard for people?

Never really thought about sticking a label on it. The name is there for
copyright purposes and it's embedded into the RAW file, which can't be
edited (well you can edit it after you've converted it to a normal picture,
but you can't re-save the RAW file).

Paul

Paul Saunders said:

Peter Clinch said:

Quoted message said:

My name is in there, it's recorded with every photograph.

somewhat more esoteric than a label on the back that anyone can read
without turning it on and faffing with it, and a contact telephone
number to call though. Why make it hard for people?

Never really thought about sticking a label on it. The name is there for
copyright purposes and it's embedded into the RAW file.

Same as mine but my memory cards have labels on them with my name,
phone numbers and email adress on them, it helps that they are CF
cards to get all that on I suppose. I used to keep a jpeg with the
same information on the cards but I have got into the habit of using
<format> to delete the pictures once I have downloaded them.
--
Phil Cook, last hill: Angletarn Pikes via Beda Fell.
http://www.p-t-cook.freeserve.co.uk/May07/martin9.htm

Phil Cook said:

Same as mine but my memory cards have labels on them with my name,
phone numbers and email adress on them, it helps that they are CF
cards to get all that on I suppose.

Hey that's a good idea, I'll do that!

Paul

In message <[email hidden]>, Peter Clinch
<[email hidden]> writes

Quoted message said:

Paul Saunders said:

Good idea! I sometimes take a shot or two at the start of a walk, and
sometimes I include the car. Maybe I'll make a point of doing that from now
on. At least I may get the flash card back! ;-)

You could always put your name and address on the camera... ;-)

Pete.

In the days of film [ :-) ] I used to make the first frame , a Kodak
grey card shot with my name and address on it.

It would be easy to do something similar on a digital card.
--
Bill Grey

In message <[email hidden]>, Paul Saunders
<[email hidden]> writes

Quoted message said:

Peter Clinch said:

Quoted message said:

My name is in there, it's recorded with every photograph.

somewhat more esoteric than a label on the back that anyone can read
without turning it on and faffing with it, and a contact telephone
number to call though. Why make it hard for people?

Never really thought about sticking a label on it. The name is there for
copyright purposes and it's embedded into the RAW file, which can't be
edited (well you can edit it after you've converted it to a normal picture,
but you can't re-save the RAW file).

Paul

You'd need to be a camera geek to get the information though.
--
Bill Grey

On Sep 5, 11:58 am, "Richard Phillips" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Hello all,

Not expecting to see it again, but I left my camera near the summit of Y
Garn yesterday, if anyone finds it... it's a Sony P-93 or something, will
probably be in a tough grey case with Pixmania on it.

Cheers,
Richard.

I've never lost my camera before. But I make sure I take pics of the
camping
site, including our car. Its a good idea in case you do lose your
camera. I try to keep
it in my case attached to my belt when I'm not sleeping.

Cheers,
Robin

Bill Grey said:

Quoted message said:

You could always put your name and address on the camera... ;-)

Pete.

In the days of film [ :-) ] I used to make the first frame , a Kodak
grey card shot with my name and address on it.

It would be easy to do something similar on a digital card.

Grey cards!?! Those were the days...

Actually, I used to have a pair of Karrimor trousers that were just the
right shade of grey and I often used to take an exposure reading off those!

Paul

Bill Grey said:

In message <[email hidden]>, Paul Saunders
<[email hidden]> writes

Quoted message said:

Peter Clinch said:

> My name is in there, it's recorded with every photograph.

somewhat more esoteric than a label on the back that anyone can read
without turning it on and faffing with it, and a contact telephone
number to call though. Why make it hard for people?

Never really thought about sticking a label on it. The name is there
for copyright purposes and it's embedded into the RAW file, which
can't be edited (well you can edit it after you've converted it to a
normal picture, but you can't re-save the RAW file).

You'd need to be a camera geek to get the information though.

Yep!

Aren't the police supposed to be good at detective work?

Paul

Quoted message said:

I've never lost my camera before. But I make sure I take pics of the
camping
site, including our car. Its a good idea in case you do lose your
camera. I try to keep
it in my case attached to my belt when I'm not sleeping.

I rarely ever leave my camera gear in my car. I'd prefer my car to be
stolen!

In fact, my camera gear is worth far more than my car!

Paul

In message <[email hidden]>, Paul Saunders
<[email hidden]> writes

Quoted message said:

Bill Grey said:

In message <[email hidden]>, Paul Saunders
<[email hidden]> writes

Quoted message said:

Peter Clinch wrote:
>> My name is in there, it's recorded with every photograph.
>
> somewhat more esoteric than a label on the back that anyone can read
> without turning it on and faffing with it, and a contact telephone
> number to call though. Why make it hard for people?

Never really thought about sticking a label on it. The name is there
for copyright purposes and it's embedded into the RAW file, which
can't be edited (well you can edit it after you've converted it to a
normal picture, but you can't re-save the RAW file).

You'd need to be a camera geek to get the information though.

Yep!

Aren't the police supposed to be good at detective work?

Paul

Well, er, yes :-)
--
Bill Grey