Sorry to hear of your flooding Stan. A few years back, I went through approximately 20K slides dating back 40+ years of shooting and wound up with about a thousand I deemed worth keeping. Glad I did that.
-----Original Message----- >From: Stan Halpin <s...@stans-photography.info> >Sent: May 26, 2020 10:33 PM >Subject: A River Runs Through > >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 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.
