Website makes it difficult to steal cameras.
This website has made it very tricky(almost impossible) to steal Cameras!
This is very cool!
When you take a pic, the camera keeps data about the settings (lens, focal length etc). I knew that much, but it also keeps the serial number/make model of the camera(which I didn’t realise). All this info is called the EXIF data. When you upload the pic to the Internet it uploads the info as well. www.stolencamerafinder.com. surfs the internet and uses that info to track down stolen cameras.
So you can actually steal a camera, and use it, you just can’t upload the pics.
So this site actually makes it almost impossible to steal a good camera and use it again! Cool article on how a guy used it to get his camera back after 4 years. http://www.smh.com.au/ digital-life/cameras/ snapped-camera-thieves-meet -their-match-20111229-1pdk w.html
You can save the pics into different file types, and muck about to loose the Exif data, but it takes a bit of mucking around, and if you are going to do that everytime you take a pic its not really worth stealing the camera!
Doesn’t work on Sony cameras…not that I would care less about that.
