Everyone seriously interested in photography art, gradually and inevitably acquires a variety of cameras, lenses, tripods, flashes and lots of other very useful things, the names of which are simple and even fotochayniki did not hear. Ctoyat these toys a lot of money, so that their loss or theft becomes a big problem. Therefore, we want to introduce you to the service Lenstag, which will help return his equipment disappeared or to secure the purchase of stolen goods.
Lenstag is a global database where any photographer can make your camera and lenses. This procedure is performed using a special mobile apps (iOS, Android) and consists in the introduction of the serial numbers of your existing equipment. In this case you will have to provide evidence that these things really are in your hands. After the approval of the equipment service specialists assigned to you, and falls under the protection of Lenstag.
Service scans the network, extracts the EXIF-data of the found images and shows you those that were made with your camera. Thus, when you have lost the camera, every shot, laid out in a network with its new owner, will be immediately detected. Further identification of the personality of the owner is already a matter of technique. Anyway, Lenstag users have to its credit is no longer a story, when the lost equipment back back to their owners.
In addition to its direct purpose - detection of stolen equipment - Lenstag can be used to address two other important tasks. First, when buying expensive handheld camera or lens you can see if they were stolen. I agree that no one will want to unknowingly substituted by buying things from thieves. And secondly, the service can be used to detect stolen your images. Tracking appearing on the Web photos, Lenstag passing may suggest the addresses of sites that took them without your permission.
In Lenstag based operation is quite sensible and workable idea that photographers can save a lot of nerves and money. So try to find a few minutes to register in the database dear to you fotoinstrumenty. Because it is better, of course, do not lose anything, but if we lose, then quickly found.