Do you mark your equipment

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Do you mark your equipment as yours. i dont mean cock yer leg up and pee on it ... :)

If your often in a situation where there are many other photogrpahers who could have simmilar kit as you... Do you ahve yours marked?

I am often in the exact situation at sporting events.. My case is marked with my web url.. as is my 300 lens.. My 135 has a red wristband around the end.. so its all easy identifiable in a crowd of other lenses say..

Wondered if anyone else did and if so how?
 
my sb-800 x 2 and sb-900 x 2 are marked with my initials - so un-saleable I suspect. I really want to mark everything . . .
 
I don't dump my things on the ground and leave them around, so no I don't. That would make it impossible to sell them if needed for whatever reason. You can take a list of serial numbers if that helps you.
 
daugirdas said:
I don't dump my things on the ground and leave them around, so no I don't. That would make it impossible to sell them if needed for whatever reason. You can take a list of serial numbers if that helps you.
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Serial numbers arent much help in the situation described :)
 
coloured electrical insulation tape? :)

it goes goey and nasty after a while though, so replace it every now and again :)
 
My work kit is all covered in scratches and tape which I know intimately...plus it's not 'mine' so I really don't care all that much.

Personal cameras are marked with security pens inside the battery compartments.
Lenses are scribed with my initials through to the metal under the rubber grips which are glued back in place.
 
Arkady said:
Personal cameras are marked with security pens inside the battery compartments.
Lenses are scribed with my initials through to the metal under the rubber grips which are glued back in place.
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again.. little use in the situation described in the OP :).. just the serials numbers would suffice instead of hidden marks surely?
 
where do you get these custom vinyls?
 
KIPAX said:
again.. little use in the situation described in the OP :).. just the serials numbers would suffice instead of hidden marks surely?
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Most photographers can recognise their own kit - the way you attach the strap, nicks on the lens hood, scratches on the body, etc etc. Put your two D3's down amongst five other D3's with otherwise identical lenses and you can tell yours apart from the others. Well, I can...

But not if it got nicked, since I'm useless about paperwork as someone on here just discovered...
I appear to have lost all my camera-equipment reciepts along with two SB800 flash units and a Minolta Flash-Meter IV in a Tamrac bag - it seems to have gone AWOL somewhere during my moving back and forth from Bergen-Hohne, Aldershot, my Dad's in Devon and back here to Germany...
and being away for the past six months means I cannot quite remember where I last had it all together...
Pretty sure it was with me in the Garrison Sgts mess in Aldershot - after that...*blank*
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Just remembered I do have a UV pen the local police gave to me. Got to get marking.
 
Sorry i dont see the point in UV pens or hidden marks when all you ahve to do is copy the serial numbers.. In fact all my serial numbers are on my insurance..

Just a thought..each to there own :)
 
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