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Photos Recovered from Camera That Spent Four Years in the Ocean

We’ve heard of digital photos being recovered after lost cameras drift for 1,000 miles (in underwater casing) or spend a year at the bottom of the ocean floor, but is there any hope for a camera that...

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Photos That Spent Four Years in the Ocean Reunited with Owner

The power of the Internet is amazing. Just yesterday we reported on how a man found a battered memory card that apparently spent four years in the ocean and recovered 104 photos from it. After the...

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Photographer Buys Back Own Work After Lost Archive Found at Flea Market

A photographer was recently reunited with his lost photographs after another photographer happened to stumble upon them at a flea market. Photographer-turned-filmmaker Alexi Tan lost his entire...

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DSLR Reunited with Owner After Year on Ocean Floor, Photos Intact

Wildlife photographer Markus Thompson was scuba diving in Deep Bay outside Vancouver recently when he stumbled upon a rusty Canon Rebel DSLR at the bottom of the ocean floor. After taking the SD card...

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How to Lose $2400 in Just 24 Seconds

Kurtis Hough of Portland, Oregon made this informative step-by-step video on how you can quickly lose $2,400 in just 24 seconds. It was shot using a Canon 5D Mark II.

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Tip: Put Your Contact Information on Your Camera’s Memory Card

If you were to lose your camera today, would anyone who found it be able to get in touch with you? If not, it might be a good idea to put a couple “digital dog tags” on your camera’s memory card....

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Internet Rallies to Find Owner of Camera Found in Amsterdam

The latest photo to go viral on the web is a photo about photos. Lost photos, that is. Earlier today a man named Roland van Gogh shared the above image on Facebook and on Reddit, stating, My father in...

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Man Leaves $13K Worth of Camera Gear in a NYC Taxi, Gets It Back

A photographer’s worst nightmare happened to YouTube filmmaker Casey Neistat recently. After taking a taxi after a long 18-hour work day and flight, Neistat accidentally forgot all of his luggage —...

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Portraits of Lost Olympic Tourists

The subjects in portrait projects are often selected for something they all have in common. The people seen in Brooklyn-based photographer Caroll Taveras‘ project You Are Here have this in common:...

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DSLR Lost for 3 Years in Creek Finds Way Back to Owner Thanks to Photos

How long can photos stay alive inside a Canon Rebel DSLR sitting at the bottom of a muddy creek? A crazy new lost-and-found story suggests that the answer is at least 3 years. The story, first...

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Photog Accuses Le Monde of Trashing 27 Years of Work Without Notice

Argentinian photographer Daniel Mordzinski, know for his work photographing literary giants, is accusing famous French newspaper Le Monde of trashing 27 years of his work without warning. Boxes worth...

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Camera Finds Way Back to Owner After Drifting 6,200 Miles from Hawaii to Taiwan

In 2007, Lindsay Scallan of Newnan, Georgia took her camera — complete with underwater housing — on a trip to Hawaii. It was on that trip, during a nighttime scuba dive in Kaanapali, that Scallan lost...

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GoPro Hero Lost at Sea, Found Two and a Half Months Later by a Spearfisherman

We won’t deny it: we love a good lost and found story. When a camera goes drifting out to sea or is lost in an earthquake, only to turn up months or even years later with the photos still intact, we...

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How The Internet Helped One Photog Find a Mystery Couple Using Only Old Slides

Harry and Edna Grossmann’s stories ended in 1986 and 1983, respectively. A long-time married couple, they never had kids, and instead chose a life of travel and photography. But none of this was known...

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The Hunt for a GoPro Containing Photos of a Widower’s Last Happy Memories

Sad news from the Whistler ski resort in Canada, where a weekend search for a missing GoPro camera with priceless images for a newly widowed skier turned up nothing. Australian couple Matt Lorraway...

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Nikon Camera Lost at Sea Found 1,100 Miles Away

On May 16, Coast Guard investigator Paul Shultz was walking along a Key West, Florida marina when he came across a red Nikon L18. Although the underwater housing surrounding the camera was battered...

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Dude Finds Roll of Film Lost During New York Blizzard

Categories: Finds NewsTags: discoveredfilmfoundlocatelostrolloffilmtoddbieberTodd Bieber was skiing in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park after the recent blizzards when he stumbled upon a white canister of film...

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Camera Flash Helps Save a Hiking Photographer’s Life

Categories: Culture NewsTags: cameraflashflashhikerlifelostNewsquickthinkingrescuedsavedlifestoryFebruary seems to be the month when lost photographers’ lives are saved thanks to their camera flashes....

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Three and a Half Rolls of Melted History

Categories: Educational FindsTags: capad-dayddaydeletedfilmhistoricalhistoryinterestinglearnlostmeltedomahabeachrobertcapathreeandahalfrollswarOn June 6, 1944 — also known as D-Day — war photographer...

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Stolen Camera Search Engine Crawls the Web for Serial Numbers

Categories: News WebsitesTags: chromepluginenginelostlostcameramattburnssearchsearchenginestolenstolencamerastolencamerafinderwebsiteWebsitesThe Stolen Camera Finder is a new search engine developed...

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