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>>184523 There is no such thing as digital grain. There's noise in digital files, but no grain, unless you've taken a photograph of some wheat or something.
The only reason you find film grain OK but digital noise not is because you're more used to one than the other. In other words, you're trying to impose the aesthetic of one format you're used to onto another you're not. (This applies even if you've never shot a film camera in your life; you've still probably seen more great photographs taken that are grainy than are noisy because A) digital noise is less obvious than film grain at the same ISO and B) film's been around longer and more great photographs have accumulated from it. If somehow digital came along before film and Cartier-Bresson used an M8 and someone developed film processes a few years ago, you'd be whinging about grain.)
And look, either way, like Salgado pointed out, they're "part of the medium." Photographs have grain or noise. Paintings have brushstrokes, prose has punctuation marks, poetry has those and line breaks, music has notes, sculpture has the texture of the stone or whatever material. They're an inherent physical part of the medium. Accept them or GTFO of the medium. Minimize them, accentuate them, whatever according to taste and suitability for the content. But they are as much a part of the medium as the dimples on your face are a part of your body.
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