Lost Camera, Found Camera!
Posted by gottabkd on Friday, March 7, 2008
Ever gone travelling and lost a jump drive, camera card or the camera itself?
Ever been walking down the beach and found a camera and did not know what to do with it?
Are you one of those people who develops the film in hopes of finding clues to the who the owners may be?
Last summer my friend found three cameras in a park near his home. Each time he called me and we discussed at length how to return the unmarked cameras to their rightful owners. After much discussion, a visit to the local police department, we knew that was going to be pretty hard, if not impossible, without ID. All the cameras had no film and thus no pictures to process. When he tried to return them to the police, they “indicated” that they get sooo much found stuff that you may as well just keep ‘em…. Whaat????
Wasn’t some touristy type person looking for them right now??? If only we would have come up with this idea ourselves……
Matt Preprost, a 20-year-old student from Winnipeg, Manitoba, wondered the very same thing and decided to create a website devoted to those very issues.
He created http://www.ifoundyourcamera.blogspot.com/ in hopes of helping people get reunited with their pictures, cameras and jump drives.
In an interview done by Digital Journal, it appears that Matt got the idea from another site that posts the secrets of people. After seeing a picture on that site, indicating that the owner had found the camera and would love to return it to the rightful owner (etc)….. an idea was born….
The site gets loads of lost picture posts and comments from people who actually get their stuff back….. Very cool!
Check it the site and know that there are photos, cameras and jump drives waiting to find their owners. Who knows, you may be in use of the site one day 
What is it with young boys name Matt????
Till Next Time ….. Tags: camera, pictures, jump drives, lost, found, returned, Canadian
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paul said
i lost a cannon camera with 256 mb card (blue) and i gb card black in black padded camers case on kos island in greece i was on borad easy cruise maybe you picked it up – reward you can keep camera i just want my holiday snaps
gottabkd said
Hi Paul….
So sorry you lost your camera in Greece…
You need to go to the website and see if they can help you there
They often have “found” cameras from all over the world.
Good Luck with that
Judith Nino said
Lost a Canon PowerShot SD450 DIGITAL ELPH at the warf in Santa Cruz, CA. We were there about 6 weeks ago. This is September 2008. It was probably left in a candy shop or on a bench where we were packing up our grandchildren. The lense and the viewer were scrached, but it had grandkid pictures and I sure miss them.
gottabkd said
So sorry to hear that Judith,
You should go to the site and see if any of your pictures are there, or if your camera has been found…. you never know till you check it out right?
Good luck
Danu said
I also just lost a camera, Pentax optio 555 on my trip to Bali, in Garuda Wishnu Kencana. I’ll check the blog, hopefully someone found it kind enough to return the content of the SD card
gottabkd said
Hey Danu,
I hope you are successfull with that.
Good luck! Come back and let us know the outcome
linda wallace said
me daughter lost her silver nicon near or in Eldorado Ks. It is in a black case. This was in 08
gottabkd said
Hi Linda,
Make sure you check the website to see if anyone has found it and sent it there.
Good luck
Shefi said
I also lost a camera, Olympus FE280 at Universal City walk,Hollywood CA on 18th jan 2009. hopefully someone finds it and is kind enough to return it
gottabkd said
Hi Shefi… yes please do check their site… you never know till you try!