This is my Nikon D200 that was in my room when the house burned. Room was a total loss. I think the camera stood up pretty well to the extreme heat and was directly exposed to fire. The lens was fused to the body and the lens cap was fused to the lens.
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I am sorry to hear about that. I am also an artist and the hardest part of the fire was losing my portfolio and art supplies.
Luckily I’m all digital and everything is backed up in multiple places.
I am a graphic design student and was able to recover some files that I had on-line, but not the raw files. How do you back up your files? I am looking into different options now because I realize that things like zip drives, CD’s and hard drives can be destroyed. I feel like its harder when you have files that are Illustrator, PhotoShop, etc. Jpegs are a lot easier to back up because you can just throw them on Flickr or a digital dropbox. I am wondering how many people nowadays use FTP sites.
I had it on a back up drive (destroyed) and I had online storage from when I ran my website though godaddy. I got tired of it and just made a blog at wordpress to post photos but I kept the website along with the storage because I had everything there.
That’s the problem with back-up drives. They are not good when natural disasters happen. Posting your work on wordpress and having a place to put all your work is a good idea. Next year I am taking a class on building an on-line portfolio and should hopefully learn a few tricks along the way. I am not sure what platform I will be using, but it should be interesting.