{"id":14801,"date":"2011-12-30T04:00:02","date_gmt":"2011-12-30T11:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=14801"},"modified":"2011-12-29T22:09:12","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T05:09:12","slug":"cameratrace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2011\/12\/30\/cameratrace\/","title":{"rendered":"CameraTrace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Catch that thief.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>This is clever.  Given that most cameras record their serial number in the photo file&#8217;s metadata, this app allows you to track pictures published on sites like Flickr using that serial number, searching for it on the web:<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=http:\/\/www.cameratrace.com\/ target=_blank><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/CameraTrace.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"444\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Click the picture for the maker&#8217;s site.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Now my Panny G3 is not exactly something I would really miss were it stolen.  It&#8217;s not &#8216;throw-away cheap&#8217; but it&#8217;s close and, if stolen, likely does not warrant the expenditure of time and effort to recover it, though I suppose the psychic satisfaction of catching a thief might be worthwhile.  But if I owned something silly-priced like a Leica M9 or S2, or a digital Hasselblad, then this app would get my attention.  As for the iPhone, whose content has value far above the cost of the hardware, &#8216;Find My iPhone&#8217; does the trick at no extra cost and stories abound of the flat footed set apprehending thieves.<\/p>\n<p>For UK residents, there&#8217;s a like app named <a href=http:\/\/www.stolencamerafinder.com\/ target=_blank>StolenCameraFinder<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Something to bookmark should that awful day ever come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catch that thief. This is clever. Given that most cameras record their serial number in the photo file&#8217;s metadata, this app allows you to track pictures published on sites like Flickr using that serial number, searching for it on the web: Click the picture for the maker&#8217;s site. Now my Panny G3 is not exactly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2011\/12\/30\/cameratrace\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CameraTrace<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sofware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14801"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14803,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14801\/revisions\/14803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}