Reply To: Beginner here. Please let me know what you think

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Want to get really good really fast? Shoot film. This teaches you to trust yourself. Digital is hurting so many people.

I disagree.  Anyone who wants to learn will learn faster with instant feedback.  Even if you develop your own film, you shoot the rest of the roll then spend an hour developing and printing.  Digital lets you see the image a second after you shoot it, and provides lots of additional information beyond just the image.  Digital also takes notes for you.  Months later you can go back and see what the shutter speed was, if you used flash, what metering mode you used.  You only get that information with film if you keep a notebook with meticulous notes.  If you use a lab and shoot prints, you have no idea what your photo looked like because the lab gave you prints manipulated the way they felt was best.  Finally, cost is a factor.  When you shoot digital, the incremental cost of a frame is almost non-existent.  When you shoot film the cost is somewhere between $0.50 and $2.00 (it may vary more with currency and market factors).  When shooting is almost free you tend to shoot more, and the more you shoot, the more you learn, if you are trying different things.