Photographer Ben Horne has shared a video on his YouTube channel imploring the photography community to help him find the owner of a Fujifilm point-and-shoot camera that a friend of his found while on a hike in Zion National Park in Southwest Utah.
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As explained in the three minute video, Horne's friend Luke Riding was hiking along the base of Angels Landing — a tall rock formation with a narrow trail at the top where hikers are free to walk along — when he came across a Fujifilm camera that had clearly taken a tumble down the side of the 1,500-foot rock formation.
The camera itself is clearly battered from its treacherous journey down the side of Angels Landing, but the SD card inside remained intact, complete with a collection of date-stamped images captured before the Fujifilm's free-fall. The images Horne has shared include a number of portraits with two younger females posing in various areas of Zion National Park in September 2015, according to the metadata.
Horne has asked to help spread the word in an effort to return the camera and images back to their rightful owner(s). If you happen to know the individuals in the photos or know of anyone who happened to lose their Fujifilm camera while at the top of Angels Landing, you can contact Horne by email (listed in the YouTube video description) or via Instagram.
Maybe there will be a movie one day. A photographer finds camera with pictures of unknown girls, with help of others he manages to find them, but did he really find them or... the story unfolds as our hero finds out more of this terrifying story :) My God! it's Ring all over again! :)
Great news that the owner has been identified....what is even more impressive is the camera's ruggedness to still protect the sdcard from being ruined from such a fall. Cudo's to Fujifilm's Engineers to design a rugged little camera and it's manufacturing excellence.
I have an great update for this story! We found the owner of the camera only 12 hours after the video went live. The owner is very excited to be reunited with their photos and their camera, and they now have a heck of a story to tell. Thanks so much to the staff of DPReview, and those who helped spread the word!
What if the camera thrown off the cliff for some reason not by accident? Not by the two women in the photos? September 2015 as the date on the photos. How come the camera found now? Very remote walkway? The camera should be more smashed? Who took the photos? Only photos in Zion park? Any entrance gate with security camera? Hopefully they are OK.
ALEX JONES famous photographer? Case solved: Camera owner found...."with a great story to tell"? But no details or explanation given for some reason. So maybe the two young women in question in aerial contest to throw their cameras over the cliff to see which one captured the moment in free-flight? The photos from the first camera in mid-flight show passing eagle swooping down to catch it? Another conspiracy theory for ALEX JONES?
My OMD EM5 took a 200m bounce down a mountain scree slope in a Pelican care. I put it down to change footing and while I was looking the other way down it went. I was bouncing a meter in the air as it went down much to my horror.
I made the long climb down to recover the SD card, but surprisingly when I finally got to it neither of the closures had popped. When I opened it up I found the camera intact and after testing everything except the clip on flash was working. I ripped the flash apart later and the flash had a unfortunate design issue in the switch.
I still use that camera .... it suffered no ill effect I can detect.
This is perhaps on of the advantages of m4/3 ..... all my lenses and the camera fits into it..... and I can take it up a mountain to something stupid like dropping it down.
I've straight up crashed on my bike, both road and mountain, with Olympus E-M5 around my neck.. road crash was the worst, the camera bounced off the pavement (just like me..) and skittered along the ground til we both stopped.
Both camera and rider finished the ride that day too.
"Portraits with two younger females..." I assume those females are Homo Sapiens? We usually refer to females of that species as "women". But the article is an interesting diversion. Good work DPR. I hope the owner hears about this. I wonder if the loss of the camera over a cliff is related to how close the two subjects were to the edge?
Isn't it typically American to say female instead of woman ? I can often see this in American writings... Do American people also say "Portraits with two younger males" instead of "Portraits with two younger men" ? Why "younger", by the way ? Compared to who ?
I would even say that they were two younger female primates of a very popular species. And whoever took these photos was so relentless to dispose of his camera waste in the great outdoors.
Typical sad response that we see all to often in DP review forums. Only seeing the value in the material camera and not what really counts. The photos! The owner may have understood the camera was lost, but maybe would like to have the memories that the camera was actually designed to keep.
Memories last forever. It's the images on the card that are of importance, not the tool used to make them. And for mailman88:
empathy — noun em·pa·thy | \ ˈem-pə-thē \ Definition of empathy 1: the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner also : the capacity for this
You guys are getting your underwear in a bind. The camera was destroyed and no other information available except for the card...good intentions, going no where fast.
I love stories like this! Years ago I found a Kodak Brownie filled with film. And with the help of a local Swedish newspaper, printing the photos I was able to finde the owner giving the photos to him! If you like, read the Google translated story:
Well Dufflebag, in the true spirit of pedantry, santamonica's comment IS a question, in that it asks if you agree, (albeit rather rhetorically) whereas your comment is more an expression of self-doubt. Oh, and instead of 'punctuated' it would be more accurate to say 'appended'. There - I feel better now.
@RickPanoply; and I've finally realised what MS Word's Grammar function means when it says "Fragment (consider revising)". I always assumed it meant fragment as in the verb, to fragment, as if suggesting I needed to break the sentence down further... It's only been a couple of decades since I left school and I've forgotten it all!
Does the camera has GPS? I would look for some older pics that look like taken at home.
Plus, camera should be handed to the police. Maybe it was a crime scene. In which case the finder of the camera may face charges for not handing it to police right away.
lol, are you really that naive thinking others (as gouverments, too) don't use that technology? it was implemented in picassa years ago, if i'm not mistaken.
I wonder if the serial number of the camera can narrow down where in the the world or country the camera was sold . If so maybe a local news channel could help with the story. Never know.
It's not news...but it's still an interesting story. And if they can help in having the SD card with photos intact returned to the owner, then why not??
I don't find it interesting. This happens often, And there is nothing special about this story (like famous camera, famous owner, famous Sd card or whatever. It's not even old or Brand new.).
I find it sad that some people think that something is newsworthy or not depending on if it's related to someone famous or not. Such a decline in the quality of journalism for sure.
You guys don't understand anything... Ever heard of the "news values"?
Instead, you're mostly criticizing without arguments... From my point of view, there is nothing special about this story, thus nothing that is newsworthy.
In your point of view there is nothing special about this story, correct. However, your point of view is not what dictates how interesting a story is - or isn't, as much as you may think of yourself.
It's news worthy because it could help somebody find their memories. If you don't like the news, move on. There are plenty of news stories that I don't find in the slightest bit interesting and when that happens, I move on. Helping someone is far more important than just reporting something negative.
@Loro Husk...Please indulge us with your superior knowledge of how often this happens. And please tell us when you lost your common sense and had your scrotum transplanted into your empty head, since your scrotum hair seems to be tickling your brain stem....and Yeah..I tell it the way it is..
If you don't find this article of any interest . Thats your thing. For me and as I see many others we found the article worth reading. And please stop telling us we don't understand anything. Perhaps it is a projective statement.
I just tried to defend the standards of quality journalism, instead, you insist in telling me my point of view would be of no interest. It is as is yours, dear Sun readers and Trump voters.
@Loro Husk. It's called human interest stories. And why not try to help someone that, due to an accident lost their precious memories?? And Orange Julius should have no place in this discussion...NONE...If you have nothing nice to say then move on...
In many recent film cameras, when you load a roll the camera used to wind all the film to the other side. As you shoot each frame, the exposed film winds back into the cartridge.
If the door was opened accidentally at any point, the unexposed film is out in the open but the exposed frames are safe inside the cartridge.
Satyaa, I stopped film photography before that. Interesting though ... but that also means your frames are numbered backwards, if the numbers line up at all.
Bobthearch, I was in search and rescue as a teenager and we once did an evidence search at a plane crash site in the Cascades near Seattle. The plane had gone down over 20 years previously. A camera was found and the negatives developed. Most were fine.
It was brought up by a friend when I shared this.. has he tried to send in the serial number to Fuji, in case the owners sent in the registration card when they bought the camera?
You’d never know that by reading DPR and all the wailing about single card slot cameras. You’d think SD cards were more fragile than the glass of lenses.
XXTwnz it isn't just about the card but the reliability of the card slot. I've seen multiple people with data corruption due to the slot itself failing on their camera.. It is rare but it happens.
@evogt500: that is the kind of grumpy comments she is talking about. Why make such a disparaging remark? By the way I have NO forum activity! "Dusty old man, full of green dust"
@dr8: Perhaps so. However, when one comments about other members opinions (whether they are right or wrong), that person should be prepared to receive comments from other members. I also find it amusing that the person who only add comments in DPR articles, complains about other comments, without adding anything useful to the website.
DPReview attracts a particularly toxic (usually tech and spec sheet focused male) crowd who think they know everything and anything they don’t have or don’t know is to be attacked
Can you prove that the photos were taken by them? In any case then, since the guy found the camera and the SD card, who is the rightful owner of the photos? finders keepers or is it a case for the supreme court? What is the statute of limitation for this? Any lawyers here?
OK, OK... just kidding, too much time on hand, back to work now.
Does this camera tag its serial number in the exif? If so, there are online tools such as Stolen Camera Finder that will find matching photos posted online.
Last year I found a gopro washed up on the shores of Nicaragua. Camera was corroded but the microSD card was still salvageable with the final video taken while the owner was learning to surf 1.5 yrs before I found the camera. I retrieved the images and was able to see an address of a hostel in Dallas where the owner had stayed. A quick google search and a few emails with the hostel and we were able to track down the Australian owner. She was delighted to retrieve her images thought to be lost at sea for eternity. As a traveler and photographer, those images are priceless!!
Hmm Haven't you thought that these two ladies may want their relationship concealed and you just outed them? It is strange that most smart devices out there have some form of security built in with the exception of digital cameras.
Haven't you thought that these two ladies may simply be non-romantic friends and there is nothing in secret? It is strange that some people out there automatically assume something sexual in the nature of two same-sex people out together.
That is a very interesting and valid point. There would definitely be value to encrypting photos in the camera (optional of course). It should not be that difficult (the UI is probably more work than off-the-shelf encryption). I guess it's another example of how camera software is so primitive and far behind phones, pads and so on (even refrigerators! <g>).
Whomever they are or their relationship, this is personal and private photos. Except if a Judge have statued that they might be publicly presented (and spread), nobody's have any right to do so.
@DPReview and @Gannon burgett, please put them down or at least crop/blur them!
Obviously they are in a relationship and wish to keep it secret. It's easy to tell that from the photos. Some MAGA tourist was probably angered by what they saw and tossed the camera down into the canyon to be spiteful.
While I commend the effort, I don't think it's right to post images of people on social media without their consent.
In fact, he could have cropped out one of the people, or put bars over their eyes.
On the planet I'm sure there are not a lot of people who have lost this particular kind of camera at this place. And I'm guessing a person who lost a camera there would mention it to their friends, too.
If it were me I would just send the camera to the manufacturer to see if they can track it by serial number. But then, I'm not chasing"likes" on YouTube ....
You mean that you do not post images of people who are in the background of your selfies? Remember, when in a public place (i.e. National Park) there is no expectation of privacy. Just go look at street photography or National Geographic for that matter.
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