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I keep a protected photo of my phone number and an "if found..." message on my card. Won't help if it's stolen, but might if it's lost.
yes my 5d3 has this. i shoot S3 on the sd card for backup and raw on the cf card.Originally Posted by DannyM
served me well
i know this isn't a memory card but in my old flat, the flat above burnt down and my house was water damaged and ruined. Some junkies looted the place and stole loads of stuff, one of them being my tape camcorder. On the tape was a home movie my girl at the time made only a few weeks before. Was more gutted about loosing the tape than the camcorder
My backpack was stolen from work last week. It had ALL my camera gear except my tripod and Sigma 50-500mm. It also had my laptop, and some other electronics in it. Total value was around £3,500. The laptop had all my photos from the last three months on it, none of which were backed up.
The irony is that after getting burgled at home in March and having my laptop stolen, I was taking my backpack to work to avoid it being taken. Turns out some people have the audacity to walk into an office and go rummaging through cupboards while no one is looking.
ouch, I'm sorry for your loss.
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Omg that's terrible
Gutting
I know it's of no use now, but for your next laptop : http://preyproject.com/
peterb (22-10-2012)
You know, now I remember it, as it was some 6 years ago, a college had something of theirs stolen, they knew roughly that it happened between friday/monday. They got the intern (bad I know!) to watch all the security tapes. Helped the police with their enquirers immensely I gather.
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Something I've noticed coming to New Zealand is that I've been indoctrinated to expect cameras watching everything I do. Dad had a quarrel in a car park with someone's bad parking and my first thought was to ask about security cameras... there weren't any.
We're a small business so there aren't many staff. We were all in the factory and the office was empty most of the day. The strange thing is my bag was in a cupboard under my desk and I sit with my back against a wall. To get the bag the thief would have had to go right into the office and looked behind the desk, which is why I'm in disbelief that it's been stolen. But it's nowhere in the office, factory, car, or home and I definitely had it in the morning.
I've bought myself a new laptop but I'll have to wait on a new camera. The insurance is probably going to pay something silly like £1,000 and I have other things to focus my money on. I haven't used the camera much recently so I might downgrade, but I did like the 50D and the 24-105mm L was a nice lens. I was probably going to sell the 50mm 1.8 anyway. I could manage without a flash. The filters were sometimes useful but I could hold off on those.
Never underestimate the sheer chutzpah of the criminal mind.
At uni, two blokes walked into the student lounge wearing "Granada" (a TV rental company, back in pre-history) t-shirts, and unplugged the TV, taking it for "repair". They did it on cup final day, with about 300 students watching it.
They were shouted and sworn at for doing it then, but people were so outraged at the timing that nobody thought to question if they were legit.
Needless to say, the TV was never seen again. Well, not by the rightful owners, anyway.
Well good news people!
It turned out that it had slipped off my desk, behind the radiator and filling cabinet, what luck I decided to steam the carpets. I guess if I did this regularly, not only would my flat be neater, but I'd have found it sooner.
Right now this little card is copied to my desktop is replicating to my NAS box, which is crypting the data (takes about 1 day for 16gb on that puny atom thanks to my secret sauce of rf2898/SHA2) before upping it to the S3 cloud.
I've also bought some more WiFi auto uploading SD cards, which I'll let you know how I get on with.
But the story has a happy ending!
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nice one
Capitalization is the difference between helping your Uncle Jack
off a horse and helping your uncle jack off a horse.
Great ending.
I note that the "once bitten, twice back it up" message hit home, too.
Your experience nicely mirrors (to continue the backup theme) mine too .... THINKING you'd lost it permanently is enough of a jolt, and then getting it back doesn't undermine that. I.e. you get the motivation without the actual loss ... or a need for a kindly dog-walker.
The one situation where 'It's OK, I've got a backup' is of no help whatsoever...
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