Cache Camera Etiquette?

[+Delta-S]

Found our first disposable camera in a cache yesterday. As luck would have it, we took a photo and then realized it was the last on the roll.

What is the appropriate thing to do with spent cameras? We didn't know, so left it there and emailing the cache owner.

 

The Bigg Family "Delta-S"

[+Stunod]

You did the right thing. Now the owner can come back and get his camera.

 

"Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand."

[LisaAS36]

That would be my guess as to what to do with it.

 

I had a friend that went on vacation in Belize and when they got back someone had taken some pictures of their male private parts. She figures someone on the hotel staff came in and used her camera while she left it in the room. When she took the film to get developed they had her film on hold and the manager questioned her and gave her the "this is illegal" type speech. She still didin't have a clue until he showed her the pictures and she explained what must have happened.

 

Point of story - You never know what you'll be developing when you leave your camera in the hands of others.

 

Lisa

[+RichardMoore]

You did exactly the right thing. You could also have put on your log, but I think e-mailing the owner is better. Now the owner will go to the cache to pick up and/or replace the camera and get the pictures developed.

If you were wondering if you should get the pictures developed, you shouldn't.

 

RichardMoore

 

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[+RichardMoore]

There I go, typing too slowly again. There were no other responses when I started.

 

RichardMoore

 

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[+Renegade Knight]

If you are also really really nice you could leave a new one and take the old one and send it to them (undevleoped)

 

I've done that with logs after reading a few prior logs that said the log book was full.

 

As in all things "it depends"

 

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[+mph6563]

I agree with others about just notifying the owner (or Renegade Knight's really really nice suggestion).

 

I've heard of people taking the camera and developing it themselves, with the intent of returning the photos to the cache owner. While well-intentioned, that might annoy me... for example, I plan to have the lab provide digital images as well, so if someone just sent me prints, I'd have to scan them myself. (And then I'm stuck with flatbed scans of prints rather than film scans of the negative.)