We currently live in the era of convenience. As an artist, it is objectively easier to practice your discipline with the advent of low cost (or even free) digital tools that you can operate using the device in your pocket. No matter what type of artistic discipline you practice, there is a way to digitally recreate it on your phone. Despite this ease of access and near limitless possibilities present on modern hardware, more and more artists are hunting down the equipment used by their peers from a previous time to find that secret sauce, to figure out how exactly that “magic” was captured.

But why go through all the effort to acquire and maintain decades-old equipment with, let’s be frank, an expiration date well past due? Is it all just rose-tinted glasses and intoxicating nostalgia? Or

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