lost camera

Tamara · May 29, 2004

Mother-in-law left her one-use camera behind in the cabin. Can't believe this happened, as we were so careful about checking every drawer, etc. (apparently, not careful enough) Anyway, fired off an email to the HAL lost and found department, but no luck. Really a shame, because she got some good shots that I didn't get on my digital camera. I'm so afraid of heights that I couldn't get close to a railing or lean over a bridge to get the best shot, so my 70 year old MIL got those ones!

Which leaves us with the question, when someone finds a disposable camera in a drawer, why wouldn't they turn it in? Can't condone but could understand someone keeping an expensive 35mm camera. Surely, a person wouldn't keep a one-use camera and get the pictures developed? A bit risky, since you don't know what's on them. Oh, but wait, I've done that myself...(and no, I didn't steal a camera)..

Last year, when I was in Paris with my friend Jackie, we were at the Eiffel Tower. We found a used up roll of film on a park bench. Probably someone was sitting there and changing rolls, placed the used one next to them and then forgot it. We thought that would be so heartbreaking, so we sat on that bench for about an hour, taking in the passing sights and hoping that the film's owner would come back. They didn't, so we took the film. We could have left it there, I guess, but we really thought that there wasn't much hope of it being cared for. We thought, maybe there is something on there that could identify the owner and we could contact them somehow. Then Jackie thought, what if there is some really sinister stuff on there and when she goes to pick up the developed photos, the police are waiting for her? Anyway, curiousity won out and she had the film developed and there was absolutely nothing that could identify the photo takers and nothing remotely criminal about the photos. There were some great shots from the Seine boat cruise which we hadn't done, so we just integrated those photos into our own.

So, I'm thinking, maybe that lost film karma has come back to haunt me? Maybe I should have left that roll of film on the park bench in Paris.

TheSkipper · May 29, 2004

Hi Tamara,

Did you ask the folks at HAL to check with your cabin stewart/stewartess?? He may have set it aside to turn in, but has not yet got around to it. Over the years, I have found Cruise Staff very good about turning in lost items, no matter what they were.

hazelson · June 1, 2004

We found a ring in our cruise safe aboard the Glory. A very nice ring too - diamond wedding bad, very large man-sized. Probably taken off to go snorkling or some such sporty thing. ( Or maybe taken off for less "sporty" pursuits lol and if that's the case he deserves to loose it) We took it to the purser's desk but never did find out anything about it. It should have been simple for the staff to find out who occupied the room before us. I will never understand anyone keeping anything the doesn't belong to them. Especially photos - it's sad - so many memories packed into a little box. Hope your MIL gets lucky and gets it back - better yet gets the prints back lol. TTFN Jennifer

GottaCruz · June 3, 2004

Tamara, I hope you're one of the lucky ones and that camera gets back to your MIL. By the way, it sounds like you and your MIL have a wonderful relationship. It's so nice that you travel together.