I may tackle developing a plug in to do this: position a camera (or preview, if possible) then select an object in the navigation tree and command it to move to the camera's location.  If this is already possible, let me know...

The method below will literally move the prop to the exact location of the camera (maybe not exactly what you wanted, but it will be easy to move "in front" of the camera once re-located).
  
1) Click the object you want to move (or select it in the Scene tab)
2) Click the icon shown in the menu bar ("Align to")
3) Click the Camera in the preview window or click on the Camera name in the Scene tab
4) The "Align to" dialog box will pop-up.  Click on X, Y, and Z, then OK.  Your object will now be co-located with your Camera.

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Strangely I don't think you can use the align tool to move a camera to an objects location.  It remains grayed out when the camera is selected.  If you do want to do the reverse you can link or attach the camera to an object and then select the sub menu (the "..." next to the link or attach button) and then select position under the align settings there.  Then just unlink or unattach.

Actually, Gordyd is right.  You *can* align to a camera, but you can't do it from a scene selection (as you can with other objects).

So you need to see your camera in your scene.  Select your object, choose align, and then select the camera in the scene you can see (IOW, not from the list of things but from the actual icon of the camera in the scene).  Then choose your align options.  No need for a script.

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But doesn't it seem like you would want to move the camera to the object in most cases?  I can see the utility of a tool that would calculate the size of the object and place the camera X distance from the front/back or sides of a selected object.   This way the camera isn't placed into the middle of the object.   I don't see this with my cursory look at the existing plugins.

I usually just throw a cube in the scene, then use the align tool (ctrl L) to move the object to the cube, then swtich to (ctrl+Q) mode to move the object around, but I can see how a general button to quickly move an object to generally be in front of the camera could be handy.

If I want to align a camera to an object that is a ways from it in a scene, I just select the camera i want to control in the dropdown on the main screen and then select the item or figure in the scenes tab then use a hotkey to show the front of the figure or face etc. and the camera is placed there since I'm controlling it via the viewport if that makes sense. From there you can follow the object etc. NEver really needed code to do it camera to object or object to camera. Can't say I ever did object to camera, always the other way around.  

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