Quick Tip: Use dog tags to mark your gear
Jun 29, 2016
Udi Tirosh
Udi Tirosh is an entrepreneur, photography inventor, journalist, educator, and writer based in Israel. With over 25 years of experience in the photo-video industry, Udi has built and sold several photography-related brands. Udi has a double degree in mass media communications and computer science.
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Here is a cool tagging idea we got from Roni Chastain. Roni uses dog tags for marking her gear. In an email to DIYP she explains:
… I have them [dog tag ] on my cameras, bags, tripod. I had my daughter put them on their sneakers, when they go out running…
… My thoughts have always been, if someone finds it and wants to return it, at least they know how to find me
I must say that this is quite a lovely idea. I mean, there are services like Lenstag out there that will store your serial numbers digitally for you, but they don’t look half as nice.
Yes, we know, this will not protect a camera from being stolen, but it will help it find its rightful owners should it get lost and found by an honest person.
Udi Tirosh
Udi Tirosh is an entrepreneur, photography inventor, journalist, educator, and writer based in Israel. With over 25 years of experience in the photo-video industry, Udi has built and sold several photography-related brands. Udi has a double degree in mass media communications and computer science.
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3 responses to “Quick Tip: Use dog tags to mark your gear”
Or use a $13 Dymo printer from Amazon and attach “If found, please return to: xxx xxx at phone number: xxx-xxxx for reward” stickers on the underside or backs of all your gear. Even cheaper is printing it on cheap self adhesive printing labels with a printer. :)
Anything with adhesive? No, pass. That’s a messy disaster after about 3 months.
I think the dangling tag would bother me, but the tags that I buy for my dogs’ collars (that lay flat on the collar) will work beautifully. Love this idea.