Earlier this year, photographer Arthur Galvao was reunited with a camera lens that he had lost. That probably happens all the time, but get this: the lens was lost in a desert and traveled around the world before finding its way back to Galvao two years later.
The GoPro Karma camera drone is flying back onto store shelves today, three months after being recalled due to some of them losing power and falling out of the sky. GoPro believes it figured out the problem and fixed it.
Earlier this month, we reported that a North Carolina-based photographer Faith Massey had gotten her camera bag stolen from her car. Inside was a memory card that contained irreplaceable photos of the last moments of a baby's life, which Massey captured through the charity organization Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep.
There's a happy update to the story: the memory card has been returned, and all the precious lost photos have been recovered.
Update on 12/16/21: This video has been removed by its creator.
Note to any camera thief who attempts to get rid of the camera at a pawn shop: it might be beneficial to at least know how to turn the thing on. Not only that, but when questioned about where you “found” the camera and when asked to file a missing item report, don’t run off -- I’ve heard it doesn’t help with the whole suspicion factor.
How long can photos stay alive inside a Canon Rebel DSLR sitting at the bottom of a muddy creek? A crazy new lost-and-found story suggests that the answer is at least 3 years.
The story, first reported by John Alexander over at PostStar, is fit for a Sherlock Holmes short story.
Wildlife photographer Markus Thompson was scuba diving in Deep Bay outside Vancouver recently …