Camera bag with €25,000 worth of gear lost, then recovered
Wednesday 21 August 2024, 15:30 by Elja Trum | 2,946 views | 2 commentsThis article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.
Photographer Benj Haisch accidentally left a bag of photography equipment in his cargo bike during his holiday. Not long afterwards, the bag, containing around €25,000 worth of equipment, had disappeared. Thankfully, an Apple AirTag helped him get his equipment back.
Fortunately for us, Benj filmed his encounter with the thief on his Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses. In the video below, he tells the story of this adventure.
In his bag were a Sony a9 mark III, a Hasselblad 907X and several lenses.
What we can certainly take from this is that you should attach an Apple AirTag, or Google's equivalent, to your camera bag too. It could save you a lot of trouble.
I am definitely going to do this myself too. I still have an unused tag at home. Silly, really, that I had not thought of this myself before.
Benj had actually hidden an AirTag in a tripod plate on his Sony a9. That is certainly a handy option too if you often have a tripod plate like that on your camera.
About the author
Elja Trum is the founder of Photofacts and online photography course website Photofacts Academy. He has been writing about photography since 2006. Elja is also the author of (Dutch) books on composition, black-and-white photography, flash photography and portrait photography.
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2 comments
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peterheins
wrote on Friday 23 August 2024 at 20:12
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Jeez, that guy sure can ramble. He thinks he's pretty important. But he doesn't show that the homeless guy takes the camera out of his backpack and that he has everything back again. Just show the video continuously. With this kind of bullshit I quickly lose interest and fast-forward through it.
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Chiel van Langevelde wrote on Tuesday 27 August 2024 at 10:39 | replyYep, this is a story you can easily tell in 3 minutes. A long-winded story where the essence ultimately gets lost by repeating everything 7 times.
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