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Ever lost a camera or other photo gear? Looking for ideas for how to find lost camera (digital)? This is the fourth in a series where Harley shows ideas that can help a lost camera find its way back home. These travel tips and hacks can help someone who has found a lost camera return it to you.Buy online (Affiliate links):
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Transcript
Ever lost camera gear before?Looking for ideas for how to recover camera gear if it's been lost?
Today at the House of Hacks, I'm going to show you a strategy to help your lost camera gear find its way home.
I belong to a local photography Facebook group where sometimes somebody will find photography gear that was accidentally left at popular shooting locations.
Generally, a post goes out to alert people that gear has been found and who to contact to retrieve it.
Many times the gear can be reunited with its owner.
Inspired by these posts, this is the fourth in a series of ideas to help your gear find its way home if it gets lost.
The other videos in the series can be found in this playlist.
The previous ideas help if your gear is found by a random stranger.
Today's idea helps your gear stand out from the rest, that may be very similar, when you're in a group.
Hi! If we're just meeting, welcome!
I'm Harley and this is the House of Hacks where we do things related to the workshop like metal, wood and electronics projects and other things of that nature.
Today we're talking about photography gear.
When you're with a group of photographers, many times people have either the same or very similar gear and if things get jumbled up, sometimes it's hard to figure out who's is who's.
To help in this situation, select a three or four color combination and get paint or tape in these colors.
Multi-packs of electrical tape and model paint kits are great sources to get multiple colors of each.
Electrical tape can be found at home improvement stores and model paint kits can be found at craft stores.
Or, they're both available on Amazon. I'll leave affiliate links to searches for multiple products of each down below.
Using tape or paint, depending on the equipment and your preference, put your color code on all your equipment.
This makes it easy to identify your equipment when it's combined with the same equipment from other photographers.
If you have friends that do the same thing, be sure to coordinate with them so you don't use the same or similar color combinations.
I'd love to hear in the comments below if you have any strategies for identifying your equipment.
And remember, it's a good idea to have a multi-pronged approach and identify your equipment in multiple ways.
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Perfection's not required.
Fun is!
