water damage, hallelujah!

[Roberto V.]

Awwww man, I'm sorry to hear that. I love your pictures and I can imagine how it feels, I've lost some important pictures due to other people's fault too. When I first saw the thread title, I thought your gear had been damaged. I'm glad it wasn't!

 

[jarski]

sorry for your troubles. hope no big financial impact, besides those things that cannot be recovered, like your film 🙁

 

[menos]

Sorry to hear, happy, it has gotten only a few rolls.
The title sounded more devastating (archive, gear, favorite, homemade paper airplane models, 270 Rembrandt s, …)

 

[Haigh]

A pity Simon because you are a fine photographer so you might well have lost some good shots. My sympathies to you.

 

[Leica All Day]

It sucks to hear that Simon....that is one of my nightmares.....I have a very large swimming pool directly over my apartment here in Bangkok.....I try to make sure IF something ever were to go wrong, that my cameras and negatives are kept off of the ground......

cheers, michael

 

[Ezzie]

Sorry to hear it Simon. Strange the negatives reacted like that. Rewashing film shouldn´t be much of a problem.

P.S. This really makes me want to buy a fireproof safe for my negs and a big removable hard disk.

 

[btgc]

ask for your money back.

nope, that were lesson included: check anything you have been told. I'm pretty sure teacher knew what he's doing.

 

[paultreacy]

Terrific shot. Well seen.

 

[Renzsu]

nope, that were lesson included: check anything you have been told. I'm pretty sure teacher knew what he's doing.

Sorry, but what a dick... he could've stopped you guys before you destroyed your film.

Simon, sorry to hear that man.

 

[btgc]

Sorry, but what a dick... he could've stopped you guys before you destroyed your film.

People learn from action not from words. Everyone in group learned some actions can't be reversed. Not that there were once-in-a-lifetime shots, I assume.

Umm, this goes away from topic, sorry.

 

[robert blu]

Sorry to ear this Simon, I hope you can save so much as possible. This is a ki9nd of accident which could happen and I did never think about.
robert

 

[Red Robin]

Simon, Sorry about the your bad fortune. During the last flood in New Orleans, I lost all of my neg.s as well as some cameras-n-stuff . All one can do is save what you can and look at the bright side, NEW STUFF! and move on.

 

[SimonSawSunlight]

Simon, Sorry about the your bad fortune. During the last flood in New Orleans, I lost all of my neg.s as well as some cameras-n-stuff . All one can do is save what you can and look at the bright side, NEW STUFF! and move on.

my 'loss' is a joke compared to yours. glad to hear you made it out safe and well back then.

 

[xxloverxx]

Sorry to hear that. I too am surprised that the negatives were so delicate though — I would've expected them to survive…but then, bath water…probably too hot.

Makes me realise that if we ever had a flood in HK that made it all the way up to my flat, my negatives (in plastic sleeves, which are in paper envelopes) in my bookshelf probably wouldn't survive. But I don't want to put them in plastic bags because that'd trap moisture and all that…

 

[ElectroWNED]

You know what's going on up there.

martin

I thought that was going to be this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBC81WcWEhE&feature=related

 

[menos]

Sorry to hear that. I too am surprised that the negatives were so delicate though — I would've expected them to survive…but then, bath water…probably too hot.

Makes me realise that if we ever had a flood in HK that made it all the way up to my flat, my negatives (in plastic sleeves, which are in paper envelopes) in my bookshelf probably wouldn't survive. But I don't want to put them in plastic bags because that'd trap moisture and all that…

I am in Shanghai the whole year. My negs are in plastic sleeves (I hate the paper slip slees ;-) ).
The sleeves are in Kaiser plastic container binders, which have one small dry pack.
I have no issues with humidity, but a flood or bathwater is an entirely different hostility.

Now that I do more though with bigger stocks in paper, film, prints and archive, I have to rethink storage - thanks for that reminder.

 

[oftheherd]

Fire is worse. What the fire does not get, the firemen and hoses do.

Fires are no fun. What the flame and heat don't get, acid from what burns gets in the water the firemen use, and taints what it comes in contact with. Perhaps counter-intuitively, after a fire, everything that might be salvageable should be flushed with water. Not hot of course. Even negatives may be saved if gotten to right away. Negatives don't like long soaks in cool water, and no soaks in hot water. In Simon's case, I wonder what else was in the water? Soap or other chemicals?

In my case, I didn't know about such things at that time. Heat and subsequent wetness damaged or destroyed around 8,000 slides, and I don't know how many color and b/w negatives. More than the slides for sure.

I'm sorry for your loss Simon. I understand your frustration and sense of loss.