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My Canon 5D cost a good chunk of cash. I wish there was a lock feature that could be activated to render the camera useless until a PIN was entered. It wouldn’t necessarily prevent theft, but if adopted industry wide would make a thief think twice.
Come to think of it, it would be nice to be able to
store the owner information internally. If it was “lost” it could be traced.
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Just threaten to smash your camera up with a hammer should any muggers attempt to wrestle it from you. That'll learn 'em. |
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"If I had a hammer", better to use it on the mugger.. |
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thought it might be a suit of sharp pins that converted
the camera into a hedgehog like ball when activated - but
it's a good idea + |
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Cameras that get sad when stolen? |
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[Absinthe]Bugger sad. Get Even! |
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Cameras that put rude messages on the pictures when they're stolen... If you haven't validated its PIN number for a while the messages get bigger and more fruity |
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I was doing my best to review this idea
as is. |
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<pedant alert>It's not a PIN Number!
PIN I'll accept, even at a push PI
Number, but never PIN number. |
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Ooo, and [Dub]? The plural of camera is
cameras, not camera's.</pedant alert> |
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+ though [grieger]. As an owner of a
350D, I'm jealous of your 5D, but I'd
still welcome some way of protecting
my investment. Possibly biometric
technology is the way forward as found
on iPaqs. |
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[jontg]ta, mate. It was early in the PM for me... and my apostrophe finger's a bit keen.
I usually like to think of (potential) improvements / alternatives whenever I read any post... Is that a bad thing? It's nice when there's a fully formed idea, but it's very rare. I find it nice to discuss some further elegance or twist. |
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"Oh my God! It's Elvis! And Lord Lucan!
And Shergar! All coming out of an alien
spaceship!!! - ...bugger, I can't
remember the PIN!" |
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I think everyone knows that digital cameras wouldn't work if spaceships were around anyway. Probably best to carry an old film one around with you - just incase. |
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An all mechanical one at that. Getting hard to find but Nikon still builds one in the FM2 (or have they stopped building that, too? Maybe all that's left is the impossible-to-get FM3A) |
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(Of course there are the Contax S2, Leica R6 and some expensive Olympus mechanicals floating around). |
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//<pedant alert>It's not a PIN Number! PIN I'll accept, even at a push PI Number, but never PIN number.</pedant alert>// Unfortunately "PIN number", "ATM machine" and other acronym abominations are in common use in (spoken) English. |
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Shove a good chunk of face-recognition software into it, and have it replace every person's head with that of Bill or Hillary Clinton. Unless they put in the PIN. |
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Finger print detector on the shutter release button? |
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[+] .. the password would probably have to be hardcoded in a hardware chip. Software/firmware solutions are too simple to hack |
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// Unfortunately "PIN number", "ATM machine" and other acronym abominations are in common use in (spoken) English. // |
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True of course, but like stray apostrophes, their common usage doesn't make it right. They should be eliminated whereever possible [Drefty], we mustn't be complacent ... |
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[grieger] has edited his posting now. Splendid news. |
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//whereever [sic] possible [Drefty], we mustn't be complacent // No, we musn't. |
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<aside> can I say tosh to a moderator? |
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language is an ever evolving, er um, thingy. |
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why have you no spaces in between jon the geologist? |
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//No, we musn't.// Indeed. |
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Hah! I shall now have to resign from Pedants Anonymous. |
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[po] should I be hypenated? I dunno. |
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Possibly [jon], but then, so should "ever-evolving". Hyphenated, that is. |
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then when Bigfoot shambles across the road in front of you, you will be typing in your PIN. |
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The PIN is only required when you activate the lock.
Bigfoot captured on CF. |
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Under what circumstances do you imagine yourself locking it? |
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It seems to me that the times I'm most likely to lose the camera correspond closely with the times I'm most likely to use the camera. |
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This gets my vote, however, I am sure that someone somewhere could find a way to hack the pin or just reset the camera to the default settings. |
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I met a person recently that, when he finds an unattended camera, photographs his ass. Now that I've been made aware of such a person, I believe this sort of thing is a necessity! |
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I photographed my armpit on my mates unattended phone-camera... He didn't have a clue what it was. |
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Funny-That's just what he said! |
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It would be a detterent, but dont count on it if someone ever does put this into effect. I had a PSP get stolen during my gym class (which is why I dont bring anything to gym class anymore) I had a lock code set on it, but whoever stole it must have figured out how to get around it, because I never saw it again. :(either that or he smashed it when he found out it was locked:) |
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maybe it could display a "Return to (insert adress) (for $$ if offered) when someone tried to turn it on after it hadn't been used for a set-by-user amount of time, or when the batteries were removed, and the camera wont work without entering the pin number. Even if someone got it before it locked itself, he/she would eventually be locked out of it when the batteries ran out. and no, they couldn't go into the menu and un-do it BEFORE it locked, cause you need the code in order to disable the timer |
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The first picture on my camera, that is never erased, is of a piece of paper with the words "The owner of this device can be contacted on..." and then my cellphone number. It's also saved as a file on all my memory sticks, etc. |
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Naive optimism, maybe, but it makes me feel slightly more secure. |
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