So sorry to hear this, Stan. Hopefully your insurance will come through
and soon life can return to some normalcy.
With regard to your photos/images in whatever form you can recover them
- over the years I've lost possession of a multitude of images. The
flowers, landscapes, etc all invoke memories of good times but they are
all pretty esoteric and can be replaced with other pretty pictures.
Those I regret losing the most, and would be the first to be saved
during a culling, are the people pictures - the ones that would show
future generations who we were and how we lived.
-p
On 5/26/2020 9:33 PM, Stan Halpin wrote:
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
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