[HUG ] Re: 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

You might ask the images makers themselves (photographers) as you stand in
front of their prints complaining about which process they use WHY the use
the processes they use to make their prints which are selling for thousands
on reputable gallery walls.
And bring your prints.

Mark William Rabiner
markrabiner.com

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