This image of Megan Summerville appears alongside an article about her  in the November 2009 issue of Rare Magazine.

Here’s my Minolta XG 7.  These cameras were produced in 1977.  When I was a kid, I worked all summer in order to buy my first SLR and it was one of these.  It is an aperture-priority camera with unmetered manual override, which is kind of strange.  The lens is my fastest at f/1.4.  Best of all, it uses film.  I took my first photo of Dedra (in high-school) with this camera.  I took my first front page newspaper photo with this camera, during a hurricane.

Julia: Because, man, digital sucks balls and a half. On a serious note though, digital just doesn’t capture the same curves. It doesn’t use natural light in the same way. Sure, digital is great, but I honestly think it’s great for making things look fake.

– Julia Galdo in an interview with Feaverish Photography Blog