Found Camera
 

We found a nice digital camera at the main overlook on Wolf Creek Pass on Sunday, Aug 27, 2006. Looks like the owners were going east, as there are Pagosa Springs pics at the end. If this is your camera, send us enough info to identify it and we will send it to you.

Wouldn't it be better to turn it into the local PD? I would think daisyd that the chances of this camera belong to a Fodorite is quite small.

Also, if it is a Fodorite's camera, how would they contact you? I don't think many people would want to post their home address information on a public forum.

Yes, just take the camera to the Police .. usually when people lose things, they check with the police.

Yes, calling the Police is probably the best idea... my husband uses this site often and wanted me to send the post on the off chance...

Wouldn't it be fun if it was a fodorite??

I wouldn't give the camera to the police, I would just give the PD the same info you've given us, along with your phone or email.

If someone calls, they'll refer them to you, and if not, you got a new camera with your conscience clear that you tried to return it.

You might also check if the local paper has free found ads. Many papers do.

I started doing this years ago when a friend who works in a hotel pointed out that the hotel employee who logs in a lost item gets it after a certain time period. I feel that the finder (not the receiving employee)should be rewarded for finding it (by getting to keep it) in the event no one calls to claim it.

Yes, I lost a nice digicam at Wolf Creak Pass last Sunday! You found it? A silver one with a little digital dispaly on back? That's wonderful! No, wait, I was heading west. Never mind.

wow, mrswunrfl, you haven't posted since 2004 ! It must have been a really loooong trip! :D

Please, give my love to mrwunrfl ((F))

Yes, I lost a nice digital camera at WCP last Sunday! Black, with a big display and no viewfinder? Wow! No, wait, I was heading south. Never mind.

I wish I found a camera. On Monday, after getting back from Hawaii, I couldn't find either of my cameras, the silver one or the black one. Hey, wait a minute, just one c.p. minute!

Hi Scarlett!
>:D<

Ohhh mrwunrfl---Maybe you forgot and visited Club Femme Nu after dinner on Saturday? Those girls have pretty fast hands!

I lost a camera in northern Michigan in June. Reported it to the police department and to the organizers of the event I attended.

Pretty lousy feeling. Not just the $900 camera, but the photos that were in it.

Keith

Uh oh, Lucy, I think you blew my cover. Gonna have some splainin to do.

Put the camera for sale on eBay and the rightful owner will most certainly find it.

Happy Ending! Thanks to all the people who gave us positive suggestions and feedback on this lost camera. There are no police around on either side for about 50+ miles, so my husband and I took a chance and looked through all of the pictures saved on the camera. We found pics of a group of people building a footbridge in a public park. We finally came across some signage - we had to get a magnifying glass to see it. We searched on the internet for tha name of the park in Colorado and amazingly, it's within two miles of our house. We called the parks and rec folks and asked about the bridge. They put us in touch with an Eagle Scout troop that had built the bridge in July and lo and behold... yes, we found the owners of the camera. It was just amazing that even though we found the camera about 250 miles away from here, the owners live in our home town. We feel like we earned a lot of karma brownie points and the owners gave us a beautiful floral arrangement and a card. It was a good ending.

OMG, what a great ending!

Wonderful story. I wish you had been the one who found my camera I foolishly left sitting on a seat in the amphitheatre at Ephesus never to be seen again. Worse than the loss of the camera was the loss of the week's worth of pictures inside it.

WOW, that's amazing. Thanks for coming back to tell us about it. Great job finding the owner!

How wonderful!

Good Karma to you!

I know how the owner must have felt after his camera was gone. We were on the last day of a two week vacation in Europe. On the final night before heading to the airport in Frankfurt our camcorder was stolen along with the tape with nearly two hours of video on it.

We immediately reported it to the police and they told us it was probably the work of local heroin addicts and we would never see the video camera again and the tape was probably on the bottom of the Rhine river(next to our hotel).

Never got it back. Lost lots of memories.

Lesson learned: remove tape cassets and data cards from your devices when you can not guard them.

Thanks for sharing the happy ending.

Keith

So great to hear such a cool happy ending! Good job Daisyd and family! :)

What a happy story daisyd! I had a camera fall overboard from my boat one time and besides loving the camera I lost all my pictures. And our camera was stolen while on our honeymoon so another sad loss. Thanks for sharing your great news!

Everyone should do exactly what you did because it's the right thing to do. Too bad people don't always do right.

How great!! Like every good Detective, you tracked them down :)
I love Happy Endings ((F))

:) Good work!

Daisy, thanks for making my day. It's nice to hear how much you cared about someone else's precious pictures. Excellent job!

What an amazing ending! Kudos to you for your efforts!

Not everybody would have gone to so much trouble to find the owner. You deserve to be congratulated on your kindness and honesty.

Good for you going to that trouble to locate the owners! And what a stroke of luck, too! Great story!

Long ago, when I was in college I had a 35 mm Canon that I had bought with all of my savings from a summer's work. I had taken dark room classes. I loved the camera.

I took it on my first trip abroad and made the mistake of leaving it in a restaurant in Florence IT. I realized this after a couple of hours and returned to the restaurant, hoping against hope that it would still be there. It was. The people in the restaurant had found it and put it in safe-keeping, hoping I would return. I will never forget how grateful I was. That event left a good taste in my mouth to this day.

Thanks for all your kind words everyone! Sad to hear others' stories that didn't turn out so well, but also happy that at least one other person had their camera returned. My husband is a spotter for CBS Sports so I know it was his good eyes that spotted it on the ground.
Our family has a nice digital camera and I am the picture freak - I take way too many and then review them every night and make deletions. I really LOVE our camera, and would be devastated to lose it, especially the pics inside. This helps us all to be mindful in the future and keep precious things close.
Since this is a travel site... our next trips are to New Mexico in Dec, to Hawaii in March 07, a Mediterranian Cruise in Oct 07, and to China for the Olympics in Aug of 08. I will take our camera and watch it like a hawk on every one of these trips! Hopefully we'll chat again on a different message. Thanks again everyone... light and blessings to you all.

daisyd: I think there's a movie in this! What a lovely story! Now, b/c you are such a great detective, can you help me w/ this one? About 5 years ago we rec'd a Christmas present in the mail that was intended for somebody else. It was a beautiful "Coffee Table" book on Yosemite. The original packaging had been torn away. No address on the Christmas wrapping. The postal workers simply stuck it inside another package that had our address on it! I still have the book but have no clue how to get it to its rightful owners. I did place an ad in the local paper but no one responded. Any ideas?

wow, After 5 years, I think the trail is cold. Is there a show like "America's Most Wanted" for lost or stolen items? Lol.

So far I haven't lost a camera, but I did lose 6 rolls of exposed film (back in the non digital days) that I put into a mailer and sent from the north shore of Kauai. It included photos of our hike of the NaPali coast and a backpack trip to the bottom of Haleakala crater to name a few. Anyway, they must have come out of the mailer and I never got them back. The lesson I learned was to put an address label on each film canester (sp?) in case someone like mr & mrs daisyd found them and wanted to return them. This won't help with digital, but it may with non digital video cameras.