It turns out that my insurance coverage (still haven't found the
actual policy - just coverage limits) is replacement value. With a
good addendum.
Once my equipment's replacement costs are estimated by an independent
company (I hope) I will be paid that amount without question for my
loss ($500 deductible). As I replace the pieces that I can from the
used market if I can find them, anything that costs me more that the
estimate will be paid for based on the receipts I tender. If it is no
longer manufactured or reasonably unobtainable, I can replace the old
equipment with new items that equal to or come close to the lost items
in specification, and I will then be paid the difference.
So I'm asking for recommendations from the crew. Keeping in mind that
I have a K100, a K10, a K20, a PZ-1P, three LX bodies and ALL the
accessories every made for it, about 25 K-mount full frame lenses
left, a 67 135mm Macro left, a Pentax cassette loader for the 250
frame back for the LX, and a very small freezer full of bricks and
boxes and 100 ft rolls of 35mm and 120 film, and sheet film in 3
sizes. And don't forget, I'm 66 yrs. old, and statistics say will live
only another ten years at best unless I lose 80 pounds and start a
program of vigorous daily exercise, in which case I'll most likely
live an additional one or two!
What would a PDML'r do?
Replace my rarely used 67 gear? Y N
Replace my great 35mm lenses? Y N
Buy new DA* optics for Digital Y N
and sell my LXs and PZ-1p?
Sell all the gear I now own and Y N
get a Canon body + 2 lenses?
Sell everything and invest it all in Y N
the stock market?
Sell everything, and spend it all Y N
on hookers?
Take up drink as a final solution? Y N
Joseph McAllister
Pentaxian
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