A Pictorial Guide to avoiding Camera Loss

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.

β€˜How can I prevent Camera Loss?’ I hear you ask, wishing I’d get to the point. Well, you can’t 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.

Hello

You-Must-Have-Found-My-Came

thankyou

Unless

But-I'll-Assume

I-Probably

Like-on-a-Train

Or-At-The-Post-Office

Or-In-My-Dog

Well-Probably

I-don't-even

Nothing

Anyway,-Thanks

We-Have-Such

One-Time

Bath

Sorry

Anyways-Can-you-email

I-Will-Be-Relived

And-Will-Probably-Hug

Unless-You-Have-Personal

Or-You-Are-Remembering

In-Which-Case

OK-Go-Email-Me

And-I-Will-Go-Wait

247 thoughts on “A Pictorial Guide to avoiding Camera Loss”

  1. Silly. Inane. Egotistical.
    Typical of today’s “young people.”

    Why not just take a photo of your business card that has all the contact points?

    Oh, I forgot. Today’s young people have no business cards, no business sense, no business.

  2. Morgan R / Seattle, WA

    Very well done!

    A sense of humor goes a long way. Most people will return a found object if they have a way to do so. This is a really cute way to make that possible. And because it is so funny, folks will probably go the extra mile (even some who otherwise might not have).

    For all those who commented and worried that a thief would learn to much about you … you worry too much, get a life πŸ˜‰ The message is aimed at someone who finds the camera, not at a thief.

    When you presume that most people are basically well intentioned, you’ll find out that your trust is usually rewarded. Thanks for providing a funny way to encourage this approach to life!

  3. @kickstand:
    “Don’t the images get erased every time you format the CF card?”

    Why are you formatting your CF card “every time”? You only ever need to do that once, then you never do it again. I think you’re doing it wrong.

  4. hahah, Andrew thanks for the laughs, I enjoyed it, my wife enjoyed it, even my dogs enjoyed it….now please send me $250 via PayPal and you’ll get your phone back.
    Sincerely,
    ROCCO

  5. Good plan, endearing yourself to the finder of your camera by telling a story. Those are some social smarts!

  6. Hey ‘Versace’,
    You really are quite a twisted fellow. πŸ™‚
    I am going to try out the business card idea…At the next Small Business “Event”…Hopefully someone will have an allergy and really remember me!
    Andrea

  7. You are hilarious. Can we meet in a future life? Or this one? Merry Christmas my friend πŸ™‚

  8. This is such a great resource that you are providing and you give it away for free. I love seeing websites that understand the value of providing a quality resource for free. It?s the old what goes around comes around routine. Did you acquired lots of links and I see lots of trackbacks??

  9. Actually we have 2 cameras.Before 2 years in My Home Some THiefs are stolen. we can taken some Photos with that camera..how can i recover the 2 cameras Now.. Plz Tell me the Solution….

  10. When my girlfriend at the time was studying at the dance academy, they shared changing room with those there for weekend courses. And someone stole her dancing shoes!

    I suggested she put up a sign “You that by mistake got my shoes with you, please put them back, I would appreciate it”. Next weekend, no. But the one after that, they were back πŸ˜‰

    So this “might” work sometimes, if the one stealing them actually have a conscience πŸ™‚

  11. I hope you lose that camera and I find it- I’d be down with getting a free hug from a hot funny stranger.

  12. this absolutely made my bad day not so bad a day. =D
    …I’m scarred for life because of the bath photo, but other than that…

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  14. I wish I had your camera after this pictorial so that I could give it back. Hope you find/get it back! Great work!

    To clarify, if I had your camera it’d be because I found it, not stole it. πŸ˜‰

  15. I loved it. I am always losing my camera as well and it does have photos of me and what I have been doing. But It think the best is to put your name, telephone number and reward if it found. It works.

  16. Wow. I’d not only return your camera, I’d buy a plane ticket and return it in person over cocktails and a candlelit dinner at a chic restaurant where despite the haute cuisine the waiters pretend not to notice our cheap shoes and cater to our every whim. I don’t know that you’d put out, but perhaps you’d pick up the tab?

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