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stolencamerafinder.com helps find your stolen camera - pinkoos - 01-30-2014
http://www.stolencamerafinder.com/
Apparently your camera's serial number is embedded in the metadata of each picture taken.
So, you upload a known picture taken from your stolen camera and the site scrubs the web to find any pictures online that have the same serial number embedded.
Re: stolencamerafinder.com helps find your stolen camera - OWC Jamie - 01-30-2014
fail
The 'Canon Canon PowerShot G3' does not write serial information in the exif. See the supported cameras page for a list of models that do.
my luck
Re: stolencamerafinder.com helps find your stolen camera - mikebw - 01-30-2014
Sony Alpha DSLRs do not either, except for the a100 apparently.
Re: stolencamerafinder.com helps find your stolen camera - pinkoos - 01-30-2014
Oh well. I guess it's not so useful after all (unless your camera is on their list).
Re: stolencamerafinder.com helps find your stolen camera - hal - 01-30-2014
even if it worked... are you gonna grab every pic on the internet to see if it was taken by your stolen camera?
I guess this could be extremely useful if you had an idea of who the thief was... and where they post their pictures.
Re: stolencamerafinder.com helps find your stolen camera - mikebw - 01-30-2014
hal wrote:
even if it worked... are you gonna grab every pic on the internet to see if it was taken by your stolen camera?
I guess this could be extremely useful if you had an idea of who the thief was... and where they post their pictures.
...and if they haven't been intrepid enough to strip off said serial number from the metadata already!
Re: stolencamerafinder.com helps find your stolen camera - OWC Jamie - 01-30-2014
the camera I searched for would be 11 years old
it is likely in a landfill ( or recycled into any dozen of made in china and india unnecessary plastic items )
would have been fun to find a history of sorts where it has been since it was taken from the front seat of my truck
despite still having the battery charger I really don't want the camera back, although the powershot g3 was a wonderful camera in its day
Re: stolencamerafinder.com helps find your stolen camera - pinkoos - 01-30-2014
I've sold multiple point and shoot cameras on CL over the years. I still have photos taken with those cameras. It would be fun to upload one of the pics to their database, have them figure out the serial number and see what turns up online!
Re: stolencamerafinder.com helps find your stolen camera - mrbigstuff - 01-30-2014
I swear that I read this as "stolencamelfinder.com"
now, that would be a more appropriate thread.
Re: stolencamerafinder.com helps find your stolen camera - freeradical - 01-30-2014
billb wrote:
the camera I searched for would be 11 years old
it is likely in a landfill ( or recycled into any dozen of made in china and india unnecessary plastic items )
would have been fun to find a history of sorts where it has been since it was taken from the front seat of my truck
despite still having the battery charger I really don't want the camera back, although the powershot g3 was a wonderful camera in its day
Hey look, the G2 for $799...::o
http://www.amazon.com/Canon-PowerShot-Digital-Camera-Optical/dp/B00005Q5U5/ref=pd_sim_sbs_p_2