Secure storage of your equipment.

[Lachlan 717]

I'm interested in the means that people go to in order to make sure their equipment (and images) are stored safely.

For instance, I have just purchased a 6'x2'x2' aluminium tool box to put my gear in. This is locked via 2 large, hardened steel padlocks.

Inside, I have added to the security by storing my 48kg of scuba diving lead weights. Nice and heavy! Not going to be easy to scamper away to the local pub/bar with to sell at a silly price.

In addition, I also purchased a large, fire rated safe to store my images on. This includes scanned images on CD/DVD. This is also locked in the aluminium box.

Anyone else go to these lengths?

Lachlan.

[Nick_3536]

I often lock the front door.

[Turner Reich]

Pretty much the same but I have an alarm on the box too boot.

[Vaughn]

I have a twenty+ year old RAAF airman's metal foot locker, but I can't get my wife to let me use it (she stores some extra linens in it.)

Vaughn

[Lachlan 717]

I have a twenty+ year old RAAF airman's metal foot locker, but I can't get my wife to let me use it (she stores some extra linens in it.)

Vaughn

In other words, she has the twenty+ year old RAAF locker!!

[Eric Woodbury]

Be careful about fire safes. A document safe will pressure cook your negs. You need a "media safe" for negatives or CDs. They have thicker walls, lower humidty, and a longer burn time, usually 4 hours. If you live where there are wild fires, then just kiss it off. Here in the US, if your house is on fire in a wild fire, the fire department will not waste their time on it and the hot ashes will cook anything and everything. I'm considering an underground media vault.

[Leonard Metcalf]

False floor in the truck, tinted windows, and an alarm. And after loosing them once, I rarely ever leave them in the vehicle.

Len

[Brian Ellis]

I'd be flattered if anyone liked my photographs well enough to steal 'em.

[Frank Petronio]

.22 downstairs, 12 gauge upstairs, 18" Maglite and steel tire thupper in the car....

Oh and a mean angry Golden Retriever, lol.

[Ron Marshall]

I never leave anything in a parked vehicle, even for a short time.