That 28-105 was one of my favourite lens, until I dropped it in China!

John in Brisbane



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From: PDML <pdml-boun...@pdml.net> On Behalf Of Stan Halpin
Sent: Thursday, 28 May 2020 10:11 AM
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Subject: Re: A River Runs Through 

And BTW, does anybody need a freshly washed FA PZ 28-105? Maybe a few M series 
Leica lenses?

Sent from my iPad

> On May 27, 2020, at 8:08 PM, Stan Halpin <s...@stans-photography.info> wrote:
> 
> Thanks all got your supportive And helpful comments. 
> A bit of the back story and a brief update.
>    We live on a river, the Chippewa about .5 miles downriver from the 
> confluence with the Pine River, about two miles upriver from the confluence 
> with the Tittibawasee which then joins the Saginaw river and flows into 
> Saginaw Bay which is an appendage of Lake Huron. Between them, the Pine, 
> Chippewa, and Tittibawasee drain a very large watershed. Basically flat 
> country, meandering rivers. We look south over a large bend in the Chippewa, 
> and about a mile to our north the Tittibawasee roughly parallels the Chippewa 
> the two getting closer and eventually merging at downtown Midland.    
>    10-12 days ago ( I am loosing track!) a low pressure system parked over 
> the region and dumped many inches of rain. The hydro section of our National 
> Weather Service predicted a rise of the Tittibawasee up to X feet at their 
> river gauge. From past experience I knew that X height would mean 
> approximately 26-28 inches of water in our garage, but said garage is 30” 
> below the level of our single level home, so no big deal. We moved the car 
> etc from the garage to higher levels according to a long developed and tested 
> plan.
>    Then Tuesday a week ago came the big oopsie. The Tittibawasee has several 
> small dams not too far upriver from town. They hold back enough water to 
> create recreational lakes but also allow the owner to generate/sell hydro 
> power. One failed, (predictably given the owners record), the next one 
> downstream was failing, the predicted crest was now about five feet higher. 
> Of the roughly 40,000 persons in our town, 10,000 (including us) were issued 
> immediate evacuation notices. We grabbed a few things and headed for higher 
> ground 20 miles west. Not too long after that the East-west road behind us 
> closer to town was closed due to water over the road. Two days later we came 
> back to our home. The good news was that the second dam partially held, 
> enough to slow the flow somewhat, and the eventual crest was only a bit over 
> the historic high, which for us meant only 27 3/8 inches of water in the 
> house. “ONLY” that much as worst case would have been another 2 feet higher, 
> or more.
> 
> Enough for today, I’ll continue with update tomorrow... Slowly recovering, it 
> will be weeks or months.
> 
> Stan
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
>> On May 27, 2020, at 10:49 AM, Paul Sorenson <pentax1...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 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
>>> 
>>> Sent from my
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> -- 
>> Paul Sorenson
>> Studio1941
>> 
>> Sooner or later "different" scares people.
>> 
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