RonBoyd
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I am seriously bummed because I lost our nice little sony camera when we were in Door County Wisconsin. I am mostly bummed because it had a big storage card and it probably had 200 pictures on it that I had not yet downloaded.
Ah, the Internet is a wonderful thing sometimes. There are a number of sites that attempt to reunite cameras with their owners. This is one of them:
Found Cameras and Orphan Pictures
I am sure a google search on (say) lost +camera will find others.
Good luck. (As an amatuer photographer who takes thousands of pictures a year I really feel your pain.)