> On Mar 26, 2016, at 7:09 PM, Mark C <[email protected]> wrote: > > I worked in a large library before the days of PC's and developed a great > fondness for card catalogs. Kept the scrolls and clay tablets nicely > organized :-) >
I used to volunteer at a library and did a lot of filing of new cards into the card catalogs. The good old days! > But - I've always heard that lenses should be stored vertically because that > keeps the grease from settling on one side of the aperture, zoom and/or focus > mechanisms. I may be wrong on that but you might want to check it out. > Interesting. I did some googling, and found advice for storing them every which way — front up, front down, on the side… Looking at pictures of camera dry cabinets, I see them storing lenses both horizontally and vertically. Hopefully, the way I have them is ok… > Mark > > On 3/26/2016 8:02 PM, Nicole Jacque wrote: >> A while back, I was trying to find a better way to store my lenses and other >> gear at home, and I am pretty pleased to find I was able to use something I >> already owned. An old card catalog works quite nicely! >> >> https://flic.kr/s/aHskwr4FcA >> >> (Note: Most of those are Pentax, but there are a few Nikon in the left-most >> drawer. Quite a few of the lenses shown here belong to Larry, but I have >> started to accumulate my own at an alarming rate.) > > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
