Here’s a quick tip tonight.
With services like “Find my iPhone” on the iOS platform and similar services available on Windows Phone and some Android phones it’s interesting to see this proliferate to other “non-cellular” devices such as the humble digital camera. These days, more cameras are now building in GPS functionality such as the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FT3 that I am mucking around with at the moment. Recording GPS coordinates is nice but useless if you have lost your camera and you don’t know which photos have been captured by it and uploaded to the web.
Enter stolencamerafinder.
All you need to do visit this website and either enter in the serial number of your camera or, more conveniently, drag and drop an unedited photo taken by the camera (which only works in Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox) then do a search. The site will then check the serial number against its database of images it has indexed to match the serial number. If there’s a hit you’ll get a result but if not then you might need to wait a while and try again.
This service was used to reunite an owner with his expensive Canon EOS 5D Mark II which had been lost for three years – quite amazing. That said, you shouldn’t rely on this service to help track down your missing camera though, your mileage may vary from anywhere between finding your camera and not finding it at all.
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