> On May 26, 2020, at 7:33 PM, Stan Halpin <s...@stans-photography.info> wrote: > > As some of you know, our home was flooded last week, high water at 27 3/8 > inches inside.
I’m so sorry to hear that. > 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.] That is why one of my sets of backups is 600 miles away from here. > > 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. Good luck. I really think that it ought to be easier/cheaper to get reasonable quality lossless digital files off of negatives. > > 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. Word. I’ve already had my fill of natural disasters for this year. I hope this settles as painlessly as possible for you. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
