Amazing story of a lost (and found) DSLR camera trap

Lars Holst Hansen · **Joined:** Sat May 04, 2013 12:09 pm **Posts:** 209

I just wanted to share this amazing story of the known Norwegian nature photographer Audun Rikardsen and how he lost (and found) a DSLR camera trap due to a polar bear in Svalbard.

I have had a camera trap destroyed by polar bears myself - without getting the nice images that Audun got!

https://www.nrk.no/natur/xl/isbjornself ... emH-cPzkVo

It is in norwegian but you may be able to google translate it!

-jeff · **Posted:** Sat Dec 01, 2018 1:19 pm

Amazing story!

Google translate works pretty well on this page but will still leave a little to your imagination.

buckhuntertrailcam · **Posted:** Sat Dec 01, 2018 7:44 pm

I would read it if l could if someone posts a link how to translate that will be great.....

-jeff · **Posted:** Sat Dec 01, 2018 7:54 pm

buckhuntertrailcam wrote:

I would read it if l could if someone posts a link how to translate that will be great.....

With the Chrome browser, you right click on an area with text and chose "translate to english" from the menu.

skyhorse · **Posted:** Sat Dec 01, 2018 8:36 pm

It is an Amazing story. Really enjoyed it, Thanks for posting.
Open a web browser and go to ( translate.google.com. ) You don’t need a Google account to access it, because it’s free to all.

In the text box on the left, type in the entire URL (including the http://) of the website you want to view. Or just copy and Paste

On the right, choose the language you want to see the website in.

Click Translate.
Or try this one. Copy and Paste https://translate.google.com/#view=home ... emH-cPzkVo

buckhuntertrailcam · **Posted:** Sun Dec 02, 2018 4:06 am

skyhorse wrote:

It is an Amazing story. Really enjoyed it, Thanks for posting.
Open a web browser and go to ( translate.google.com. ) You don’t need a Google account to access it, because it’s free to all.

In the text box on the left, type in the entire URL (including the http://) of the website you want to view. Or just copy and Paste

On the right, choose the language you want to see the website in.

Click Translate.
Or try this one. Copy and Paste https://translate.google.com/#view=home ... emH-cPzkVo

Thank you l watched via your clickable link. Yes amazing story!

ghosthunters · **Posted:** Sun Dec 02, 2018 6:22 pm

Awesome .. thanks skyhorse I used the link you provided to read it.

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greengrass · **Posted:** Mon Dec 03, 2018 8:15 pm

Wow awesome pictures, thanks for sharing!

Woody Meristem · **Posted:** Mon Dec 03, 2018 9:14 pm

Fascinating story -- and outstanding photos from the recovered memory card.

Reminds me of a friend's account of falling in a stream at minus 10 degrees, having to go back in to retrieve his SLR camera from the bottom and then having to walk several miles to shelter -- his clothes and the camera were frozen (not to mention himself) but the images on the film were fine.

RichardB · **Joined:** Thu Apr 14, 2016 10:45 am **Posts:** 45

I didn’t really need the words. The story is well told in the snippets of video and the three resulting photos from the dunked camera. The first of those was my favorite and well worth the loss of a body and the deployment of an ROV (handy to have access to one of those too).

And, great example of how robust SD cards really are.

Amazing story of a lost (and found) DSLR camera trap

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