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Searching for the love of grain in a digital world.

My Canon 7 rangefinder, manufactured in the 1960s it is a fully mechanical 35mm film camera with a 1950s designed Canon Serenar 50mm f1.8 lens. Photo by Mark Spowart.

I think Beck, the avant garde artist who rose to fame in the 1990s, said it best when he said “in the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.” In keeping with that sentiment, after more than 20 years of shooting digital photography, I’m switching to film.

Now, to be clear, I’m not abandoning the digital process. Simply put, shooting digital is an extremely…