As some of you know, our home was flooded last week, high water at 27 3/8 inches inside. So we have been hauling stuff out, a lot to the curb for trash pickup, much still to be sorted, decisions about what to try to preserve/restore... [Side note. Most of my camera gear was high and dry, my computer also, my five backup external drive all had water inside which I poured out. We’ll find their fate sometime but not now.]
So, sitting tonight going over tomorrow’s schedule and priorities. I mention that I want to tackle the 15-20 binders that hold my sleeved negatives and contact prints and selected proof prints. Meg says: “why? Why keep those? Will you ever use them?” Hmm, well Meg, you have been after me to print a few flower macros and most of my favorites were with the 645. I suppose I could go back to using a 645Z and go off looking for flowers. Meg says: “That would make more sense than trying to recover those thousands of negatives just to find and produce 5 prints.” I think she has a point. Particularly if it turns out that my digital archives are also toast. Starting next Monday a professional cleaning crew of 5-6 persons will spend 3-4 days mitigating the flood damage, sanitizing, and cleaning. Another 2 weeks after that of high powered fans for drying. Meanwhile we’ll be looking for new stove, refrigerator, furnace/boiler, hot water heaters, washer and dryer, bedroom furniture, living room furniture... Assuming that our insurance coverage comes through, by July this will mostly be behind us and I can revisit that thought about a 645Z... Thought for the day: avoid floods. Stan Sent from my -- 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.
