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Subject: Re: Camera theft prevention Posted on: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 17:06:28 +0000 (UTC)

On Apr 17, 5:36 am, 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.
I guess I'd have the camera somewhere at the bottom of the pack.
Also, some packs have inside pockets, can be locked and so on.

> 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
there are iPod sized devices that can store your pictures like
Nikon Coolwalker or some device from digimagic. I'm sure there are
others.

Lots of Greetings!
Volker