On Apr 16, 8:36 pm, steve wrote:
> My wife and I just returned from a mostly enjoyable trip to Spain,
> Morocco and Portugal. Unfortunately, our camera along with all our
> pictures of Spain was stolen on our first day in Portugal. I was
> getting onto a crowded subway train and had the camera in my backpack.
> We had thought it was safer in the backpack than carrying it loose.
> Anyway there was lots of pushing to get into the subway which made it
> impossible to tell that someone had their hand in my backpack. After
> removing the camera I was shoved into the car. I just thought it was
> the usual crowd push.
>
> Does anyone have any thoughts on the safest way to carry a camera? I
> don't want to spend all my time being paranoid. I think of myself as
> reasonable careful but there will always be momentary lapses when you
> are distracted, perhaps intentionally.
Carry your backpack in front of you, not on your back, esp. in crowded
places.
Put valuables deep inside the pack.
>
> We have already decided to use smaller memory cars in the camera so
> that at most one week of pictures can be lost. It would be nice to
> have some way to simply move all the days pictures to a separate
> memory card or other safe place but I'm not going to carry a laptop or
> visit an internet caf=E9 every day
>
> Thanks
> Steve Gerdemann
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