Photographer gets $9K worth of stolen camera gear back with GadgetTrak

John Heller, a working photographer, was on assignment for Getty Images when his Nikon D3 camera and lenses were stolen from him at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood. He’d all but written off…

via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2011/08/24/photographer-gets-9k-worth-of-stolen-camera-gear-back-with-gadgettrak.html

He’d all but written off the $9,000 in ripped-off-gear, when he searched for his camera using a serial number search tool offered by theft recovery service GadgetTrak. According to the company, “He found an exact match with several images that were recently posted to Flickr.”