Kids and keeping gear secure

[x-ray]

I keep all of my cameras and lenses in 2 large gun safes. You don't need to go to that extreme but an inexpensive gun cabinet anchored into the floor will not only give security for you cameras but it's a good place to store other valuables and important papers like insurance and car titles. They're relatively inexpensive too.

My home has low humidity so I don't have any fungus problems but most gun cabinets have a hole in the back to install a low wattage heater to drive out moisture. These are very low power and quite inexpensive.

Check your sporting goods store that sells hunting equipment. Even our farm store, tractor supply, sells cabinets.

Edit

Cabellas sells a rifle cabinet for $118. Think of it as a cheap security system. A heat stick will run about $20.

 

[coogee]

Just put your camera equipment up high, kids are short.
By the time they're able to climb or build, they'll have had said camera equipment pointed at them ten thousand times and be very familiar with it as something important (to you.)

Anything below 1m in your house will be fair game in 18 months, but by then you won't care so much is my guess.

As for locked cabinets, it's not my MO personally. You don't need to hide things from them once they get to kindergarten age, just let them know and understand what is out of bounds and they'll get it. Otherwise you're headed into 'Cameron' territory (Ferris reference there if that's too obtuse.)

Congratulations, enjoy the ride, take many pictures.

 

[Steve M.]

The really good photographers I know keep their kids safely locked up somewheres, and the camera gear out in the open for display.

Next question?

 

[David Hughes]

but don't lock the cat away with the kids as cats get hungry sometimes and don't really care about us...

Regards, David

 

[papaki]

Fortunately my kid is not a menace. He likes looking at my stuff and sometimes when I develop a roll I get a frame or two with his face out of focus. I am not saying anything though. I'd love if he would get into the world of film photography just like me.

 

[michaelwj]

Out of reach, just like other sharp/heavy/dangerous stuff kids might want to play with. It's not rocket science.

 

[David Hughes]

Just a thought...

Just a thought...

Hmmm, no one has wondered out loud how anyone can afford a hobby like photography and kids.

Regards, David

 

[ptpdprinter]

Hmmm, no one has wondered out loud how anyone can afford a hobby like photography and kids.

Photography doesn't have to be expensive. The real issue is time.

 

[BillBingham2]

I switched camera to Bessas and put my Leicas up high in the closet.

Kids wanted to take pictures with them from time to time and along as used the neck strap I was fine.

B2 (;->

 

[David Hughes]

Photography doesn't have to be expensive. The real issue is time.

You can have young kids and free time?


Regards, David

 

[ruby.monkey]

Sell the kids, buy more cameras. Problem solved.

 

[ptpdprinter]

You can have young kids and free time?

Yeah, disappearing into the darkroom for four or five hours on a Saturday afternoon when you have a couple of young children is a real stretch.

 

[noisycheese]

Pelican cases with dessicant gel packs inside, perhaps. They can be locked if necessary.

That's how I store my cameras; it works very well.

Sell the kids, buy more cameras. Problem solved.

LOL!! I'll second that! 😀

 

[Ronald M]

Just put your camera equipment up high, kids are short.
By the time they're able to climb or build, they'll have had said camera equipment pointed at them ten thousand times and be very familiar with it as something important (to you.)

Anything below 1m in your house will be fair game in 18 months, but by then you won't care so much is my guess.

As for locked cabinets, it's not my MO personally. You don't need to hide things from them once they get to kindergarten age, just let them know and understand what is out of bounds and they'll get it. Otherwise you're headed into 'Cameron' territory (Ferris reference there if that's too obtuse.)

Congratulations, enjoy the ride, take many pictures.

One meter not good enuf. My daughter moved a kitchen chair to countertop, counter top to top of refrigerator where spouse found her. You know, go looking when things are quiet.

She is probably near genius IQ. But all kids are smarter than we give credit for.

 

[JoeLopez]

One meter not good enuf. My daughter moved a kitchen chair to countertop, counter top to top of refrigerator where spouse found her. You know, go looking when things are quiet.

She is probably near genius IQ. But all kids are smarter than we give credit for.

Not to mention flying toys in the house from time to time 🙂

 

[Out to Lunch]

I kept a couple of sacrificial cameras for my kids to play with

At the time, I did the same thing. Worked out fine.

 

[Big Ursus]

When my kids were little, I kept my gear in my dark room, in closed camera bags, on the dry side.

" Yeah, disappearing into the darkroom for four or five hours on a Saturday afternoon when you have a couple of young children is a real stretch."

I invited them in when I was enlarging. I remember enjoying my four-year old daughter's company in there, but it was my son who became a photo-journalist. Maybe because he had a picture he took published when he was about six.