Information for finder of memory cards I have a PDF file…
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Information for finder of memory cards
I have a PDF file on every one of my memory cards containing the following text:
Hello,
You have found my memory card.
I would be very grateful if you could contact me.
I am happy to pay a reward of CHF xxx to the honest finder.
My contact details ...
Kind regards
After every shoot, I format the memory cards used in my camera bodies and then restore my saved camera settings to the cards. As part of the same workflow, I also copy two PDF files onto each card, one in English and one in German (I live in the German-speaking part of Switzerland), and place them in the root directory.
I’ve never actually lost or forgotten a memory card, but I once found one on a park bench in a city. There was nobody around who might have been the owner, so I took it home and inserted it into a card reader. After the obligatory virus scan (better safe than sorry), I went through the roughly 500 photos looking for clues about the owner.
About 200 of the images appeared to have been taken during a cruise. I contacted the cruise line and provided the name of the ship, date, the ports visited, and my best guesses about the two people appearing in the photos. Their team was extremely helpful: they contacted the three most likely customer couples, and one of them turned out to be the owner. They had accidentally left the card on the park bench while swapping it for another memory card.
That experience is what inspired me to start placing those PDF files on all of my memory cards. Hopefully I’ll never need them, but if I ever do lose a card, there’s at least a chance that an honest finder will be able to contact me and return it.
#hobby
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I have a PDF file on every one of my memory cards containing the following text:
Hello,
You have found my memory card.
I would be very grateful if you could contact me.
I am happy to pay a reward of CHF xxx to the honest finder.
My contact details ...
Kind regards
After every shoot, I format the memory cards used in my camera bodies and then restore my saved camera settings to the cards. As part of the same workflow, I also copy two PDF files onto each card, one in English and one in German (I live in the German-speaking part of Switzerland), and place them in the root directory.
I’ve never actually lost or forgotten a memory card, but I once found one on a park bench in a city. There was nobody around who might have been the owner, so I took it home and inserted it into a card reader. After the obligatory virus scan (better safe than sorry), I went through the roughly 500 photos looking for clues about the owner.
About 200 of the images appeared to have been taken during a cruise. I contacted the cruise line and provided the name of the ship, date, the ports visited, and my best guesses about the two people appearing in the photos. Their team was extremely helpful: they contacted the three most likely customer couples, and one of them turned out to be the owner. They had accidentally left the card on the park bench while swapping it for another memory card.
That experience is what inspired me to start placing those PDF files on all of my memory cards. Hopefully I’ll never need them, but if I ever do lose a card, there’s at least a chance that an honest finder will be able to contact me and return it.
#hobby
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