James, Try West Coast Imaging at www.westcoastimaging.com They are in the Central Valley Just outside of Yosemite (sorry I forget which town). They have done an excellent job printing my images. Granted they are digitized 6x6 images but their work is very good. Patrick St.Cin STC Enterprises, Inc. www.imagesbypatrick.com Tel (505)239-3026 Fax (505)771-8388 ----- Original Message ---- From: JAMES WILLIAMS <jmswllms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: hasselblad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, May 6, 2008 12:21:40 AM Subject: [HUG ] The falling dollar/ photos vs digipics I might as well put my two cents on the table. The topic of the sagging dollar causing Hasselblad to go out of business. I would be more focused on people thinking that digitals are real photographs. The photo shops around Visalia do not sell film cameras, they don't have 220 or 120 that is not expired. The photos in Fresno are only digital printed, I'm trying to find a lab that does optical printing, not have much luck, Shooting with film is being nudged over and people do not even get it, I was in a gallery along the coast. The gallery was photographs taken with with a medium format camera and there was a man looking at photographs, he was amazed at the colors and detail. But he was shocked when they told him that the photographer did not use photoshop, it was shoot with film. He did not know people still did that. The sagging of the US dollar is more political than economical, the US government likes our dollar worth less because then other countries will buy our goods. They are more concerned with making companies more money( you know the trickle down effect, lol). Hope I did not push anyones buttons, but sometime the truth hurts lol. But the real question is what is the truth? lol