ransacked

got a call from my sister yesterday. as i never get calls from her it probably was important. the brooklyn place was broken into and ransacked. she knows a necklace and watch were missing.

at first i thought it was lucky that i took a camera bag out to drop of to nippon to be repaired -- the 645e metering coupler locks before hitting f/22. then i went though with the inventory of what i had there. camera accessories, 2 lenses, a cell phone. all the standard fun stuff like tvs, laptops, dvd players.

then i thought of the worst. my negatives. i have been reorganizing my binders of negatives for the past few months and have been stowing them there. there are about 6 cases of negatives. each case holds about ten one inch binders. the biggest problem in working longterm with film is that it isn't redundant -- no way to back it up. sure i scan in my prints but that is no replacement.

a coworker was broken into a few months ago. all her favorite negatives were in a fire safe, to protect from flood and fire. they stole that, i was heart broken for her. i couldn't imagine losing the cream of a life of work.

so i went over last night. negatives were fine, the cases are pretty clear so they hadn't even been opened. i was surprised that the big camera case was still there. i opened that up and was even more surprised to find all my accessories still there. 100 rolls of film in the fridge still there. even the holga. in fact, none of my photo stuff was missing.

i guess film is dead.