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Use these four gadgets to protect your camera gear from theft

May 26, 2023 by Dunja Djudjic Add Comment
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Our precious camera gear is expensive, so it’s often a target of theft. Thankfully, there are ways to protect it and ensure that your gear finds its way back to you even if someone steals it. In this video, Armando Ferreira shows you four gadgets that will make it easy to track your gear and retrieve it in case you get robbed.

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I was almost robbed in my own home – beware the new scam targeting photographers

I was almost robbed in my own home - beware the new scam targeting photographers

Feb 24, 2023 by Richard 14 Comments
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There are a lot of scammers targetting photographers, it seems like. I’ve been lucky enough not to have been affected by these, until recently. There is a new scam aimed at photographers selling their used equipment, and I almost fell for it. I want to get the word out so that you know what to watch out for and don’t fall victim to these people.

I’ve been selling a bit of photography equipment on Facebook Marketplace, and so far, I’ve never had an issue. However, a fellow photographer friend of mine had a terrible experience where he had a camera stolen via a fairly sophisticated con. I didn’t believe he could have fallen for it, until it almost happened to me.

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Leica store in San Francisco robbed with $178,000 worth of gear stolen

Nov 28, 2022 by Dunja Djudjic 5 Comments
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An armed robbery recently occurred in San Francisco, the city that keeps earning a bad rep for camera thefts. Four masked thieves burst into a Leica store near Union Square. While holding the employees at gunpoint, they stole $178,000 worth of gear and fled the scene only a few minutes later.

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Midwest Photo robbed again as a truck crashes into the store

Aug 9, 2022 by Dunja Djudjic 3 Comments
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A few days ago, Columbus-based business Midwest Photo got robbed in a quite dramatic manner. A truck, which was reportedly stolen, crashed into the store smashing everything in its way. A man can be seen in the surveillance video rushing out of the truck with a large white bag. The store was robbed, and it sadly wasn’t the first time.

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Photographer used Photoshop skills to steal $16,000 from photography association

May 23, 2022 by Alex Baker Add Comment
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An Australian astrophotographer has pleaded guilty to several counts of fraud and theft after stealing over $16,000 from the Professional Photographers’ Association of Queensland (PPAQ) over a 3 year period.

Photographer Mark Culley allegedly used his Photoshop skills to forge bank statements and financial reports, and also to replicate the signature of the association’s accountant.

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Stolen Drone Info helps you track down your lost or stolen drone (or report one you’ve found)

Apr 20, 2022 by John Aldred Add Comment
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Drones disappear all the time. Sometimes it’s simply that they’ve crashed or software’s malfunctioned and it’s flown off to some unknown location. Other times, it might be a little more nefarious and it’s actually been stolen. Regardless of how you might have lost possession of your drone, it is at the very least a frustrating experience. Trying to find or recover it can be even more frustrating.

But a new service called Stolen Drone Info (SDI) by drone security company DroneSec is here to help. This is a website, which you can use for free, to report that your drone has gone missing or that you’ve randomly found a drone while out and about exploring. If you do choose to step up from the free to a paid account, it will even search online marketplaces, posted flight logs and other sources.

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When your gear gets stolen in San Francisco, this is where it ends up

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Apr 20, 2022 by Dunja Djudjic Add Comment
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Over the last few months, we’ve seen quite a lot of gear theft in San Francisco. Thanks to ABC 7 News, one of the locations where stolen gear ends up has been found and identified.

Reporter Dan Noyes spoke to a San Francisco man who revealed that many of the stolen goods are sold in the street, often hours after the theft. One of the locations for these transactions is an open-air market at Garfield Square in the Mission District, and it’s all happening in broad daylight!

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Follow these steps to prevent camera theft

Jun 7, 2021 by Jefferson Graham 10 Comments
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As you know, my gear was stolen in broad daylight as the camera was rolling two weeks ago in a public San Francisco park.

Another photographer got hit this week near San Francisco and way worse than I did. He was parked near Battery Spencer Park in Sausalito, in the Marin Headlands, which offers one of the best views of the Golden Gate Bridge, and thieves bashed in his SUV windows and fled with multiple cameras, computers, hard drives, and more.

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One man shot, other hurt when thieves tried to steal their photo gear

Feb 9, 2021 by Dunja Djudjic 2 Comments
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Only a day after two photographers got robbed while stuck in traffic, another incident happened in California. While two men were doing a photoshoot in a San Diego park, six people tried to steal their gear. When the duo fought back, the thieves shot one man and hurt the other.

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Video shows photographers robbed of $7,000 in smash & grab while stuck in traffic

Feb 8, 2021 by John Aldred 2 Comments
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Camera gear gets stolen fairly regularly. It’s something we’re all cautious of and try to minimise the risk of it happening. But there are some events that cause us to lose our gear which just so brazen that it’s difficult to account for them. Something that real estate photographers Ben and Masha of Home Shoots discovered while driving home after a photoshoot.

While sitting in traffic waiting to get onto the Interstate 80 onramp on Friday afternoon, a car pulled up beside them. Somebody got out of the car, smashed their rear window, grabbed a bag containing over $7,000 worth of camera equipment and hopped back into their vehicle before racing off. And it all happened in just a few seconds.

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Udi Tirosh: from diyphotography.netUdi 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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Dunja Djudjic: from diyphotography.netDunja Djudjic is a multi-talented artist based in Novi Sad, Serbia. With 15 years of experience as a photographer, she specializes in capturing the beauty of nature, travel, and fine art. In addition to her photography, Dunja also expresses her creativity through writing, embroidery, and jewelry making.

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