Blog Connects Lost Cameras And Owners?

Editor's Note: When I read this article I thought I had to share the interesting idea with our DPG readers. Imagine someone found your camera on the bottom of the ocean or at a resort and helped you reclaim it by sharing that once in a lifetime shot of a whaleshark surrounded by a school of Mantas? Ok, a little far fetched when it comes to non-personally identifiable photos, but still an interesting idea!

Imagine you lost the camera that had those one-of-kind vacation photos, or images of a keepsake moment. If a stranger found it, would you feel happy, or somehow that your privacy was invaded, if they tracked you down by viewing some of your images?

A new website, www.Ifoundyourcamera.net, aims to do exactly that: Using the power and reach of the Internet, it asks people who find cameras, memory sticks or photos to upload and send a few of the images, which are posted for all to see. The intent is for people who visit the site to scroll through the pictures for their lost memories or for faces they know.

In three months, the website has had more than 700,000 hits, according to Matt Preprost, the blog's 20-year-old co-founder and operator. Almost 60 people have sent images from cameras or memory sticks they found, and that's led to eight happy reunions between camera owners and their digital memories, he said..