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[OM] Re: Personal Robbery Survey, was Re: Bags

Subject: [OM] Re: Personal Robbery Survey, was Re: Bags
From: Winsor Crosby <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 17:10:03 -0800
Just curious about the thief business. After shooting for some forty  
years the only camera equipment I have had stolen was "safely" stored  
in my home. And this goes along with the lens protecting filters.

I have never had an item stolen from my person when I was out or  
traveling. I think I was stalked once by an apparent tag team in NY  
City once, but we were alert enough notice, to change direction and  
leave the neighborhood.

Once during my lifetime I slipped on some ice and my Mamiya 7 went  
flying and the impact with a rock made a tiny crack in the top plate.  
Lens was fine. Filter did not help the top plate.  If I had had the  
strap around my neck I probably would have just been bruised and the  
camera fine. No other dropped cameras or lenses. A few scratches on  
an ever ready case once caused by being mashed between a rock wall  
and me on a narrow ledge.

Are we not obsessing about stuff that does not happen much with  
diaper bags or expensive camera bags that the owners seem to think do  
not look like expensive camera bags because they are made out of  
canvas? (Yeah, right!) Then again, maybe I am living in a fool's  
paradise in carrying a regular camera bag selected for its efficiency  
rather than its invisibility.

Informal survey: There is a huge assemblage of photographic man years  
here considering our recent age survey. How many people have had  
their camera bags stolen while out any time in their life?  Negative  
reports not needed because apparently your strategy worked.

Anyone? Anyone at all?



Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA



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