Buy a digital camera, plus the 2 final options, and shoot some amusing photos for your descendants to sell on eBay.
Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Joseph McAllister > Sent: 06 October 2008 21:55 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Insurance Good News > > It turns out that my insurance coverage (still haven't found the > actual policy - just coverage limits) is replacement value. With a > good addendum. > > Once my equipment's replacement costs are estimated by an > independent > company (I hope) I will be paid that amount without question for my > loss ($500 deductible). As I replace the pieces that I can from the > used market if I can find them, anything that costs me more that the > estimate will be paid for based on the receipts I tender. If > it is no > longer manufactured or reasonably unobtainable, I can replace > the old > equipment with new items that equal to or come close to the > lost items > in specification, and I will then be paid the difference. > > So I'm asking for recommendations from the crew. Keeping in > mind that > I have a K100, a K10, a K20, a PZ-1P, three LX bodies and ALL the > accessories every made for it, about 25 K-mount full frame lenses > left, a 67 135mm Macro left, a Pentax cassette loader for the 250 > frame back for the LX, and a very small freezer full of bricks and > boxes and 100 ft rolls of 35mm and 120 film, and sheet film in 3 > sizes. And don't forget, I'm 66 yrs. old, and statistics say > will live > only another ten years at best unless I lose 80 pounds and start a > program of vigorous daily exercise, in which case I'll most likely > live an additional one or two! > > What would a PDML'r do? > > Replace my rarely used 67 gear? Y N > > Replace my great 35mm lenses? Y N > > Buy new DA* optics for Digital Y N > and sell my LXs and PZ-1p? > > Sell all the gear I now own and Y N > get a Canon body + 2 lenses? > > Sell everything and invest it all in Y N > the stock market? > > Sell everything, and spend it all Y N > on hookers? > > Take up drink as a final solution? Y N > > > Joseph McAllister > Pentaxian > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly > above and follow the directions. > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
