Stolen Equipment

[Matt]

If your planning on buying any gear from ebay, be aware you may be purchasing stolen equipment.

In the last six Months I know of two individuals (from another forum I use) that have a lot of kit stolen.

Here are the details of the theft:

Just a quick note, I have just come back from India and had all my kit and 8000 images stolen as I returned on the train to Delhi. If anyone knows anyone in India could you please forward the list on. I am just trying to get it out into as many places as possible.
I really would like my film and 80GB flash Trax back (with 72GB of images!). I have offered a £1000 reward but I doubt anything will happen.

Thanks

Brian

Stolen Items, Document list.

SmartDisk FLASH TRAX 80-GB (see pic) in small grey bag

30 Rolls of Film (21 fujichrome provia and 7 fujichrome velvia) (see pic)

LowePro Photo trekker AW II bag (black) – Contained all the equipment

LowePro toploader bag (green) – Contained Canon 1D MKII with Canon 100-400 IS-L USM lens

Canon EOS-1D Mark II Digital Camera (Serial number: 228862)

Canon EOS-1D Mark II Digital Camera (Serial number: 231716)

Canon EOS 1V body with power drive booster pack (serial number: 233640)

Canon 500mm f/4 EF IS lens (USM) (serial number: 23796)

Canon 24-70mm f/2.8L EF (USM) lens (serial number: 21000229888) - in small grey bag.

EF300mm f/4.0L IS USM (serial Number:118427)

Canon 100-400 IS-L USM lens (serial number: 2467540

Canon 1.4X TC (serial number: 17634)

Canon 2X TC (serial Number: 26119)

3x SmartDisk battery for FLASH TRAX

Hakuba large super blower

2x CANON EC-D focusing screen matte/grid

2x CTA NP-E3 NIMH battery pack for CANON EOS 1D

6x Lexar Compact flash card 1GB type I 80X in GEPE cases (4 in each)

6x Lexar Compact flash card 2GB type I 80X cases (4 in each)

4x Gepe Card safe (Onyx)

Canon Speedlite 580EX

4x Canon NIMH batter pack for EOS 1D

B+W 77mm UVA Haze filter

Canon Extension tube EF 25

Canon EC-D focusing screen matte/grid

4x Canon NIMH battery pack NP-E2

Speedlite transmitter ST-E2 (Serial Number: 0R0409)

Hakuba lens cleaning pen

Hoya filter 77mm HMC 81B0755

3X Hoya filter 77mm super HMC Pro-1 UV 8176

Kirk FX-2 Flash Extender2

Canon EF 12m extension tube

550 EX flash gun

Off-shoe camera cord

Canon TC-80N3

2x Wimberley QRplates

Wimberley P30 QR plate

2x Sto-fen Omnibounce

Grippa Beanbag

Sigma 77mm EX polarizing filter

Creative-Labs Zen touch 40GB MP3 player

Shure E3C in-ear sound headphones


Brian W Matthews

Wildlife Photographer

BWMPHOTO.com

Cleveland

UK


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Please make sure you have a record of all of you kit with serial #'s.
And that you have it insured.

[Steve]

I would be devastated if any of my equipment was stolen and I have nowhere near the same value as the above list. As it has been stolen in India I doubt that much of it will be recovered but like you say it is worth getting the list and serial numbers out for the potential Ebay sales. I just hope he does get at least some of his equipment back and the thieving scumbag who took it gets caught.

[SDK^]

That is some equipment to lose, not to mention the photos :(

[Arkady]

I can't get my kit insured unless it gets nicked from the house.
In my line of work, you just have to be careful and suck it up when it goes pear-shaped.
Very few companies will insure for overseas, especially with 'pro' kit being the price it is...