So many times people ask how I learned photography, and I also tell them the same thing....
I learned how to shoot on a film camera.
In the digital age we live in, everything is so instant that we lose the magic of mystery. My favorite class in high school and college was the basics of film photography. Not only were you required to learn how to properly expose the film, but how to develop the film in the dark room. I spent hours and hours in the red light with the terrible smell of fixer, but to watch the image just appear on the paper is such an amazing feeling. And not to mention, just really cool to see something appear on a blank sheet of paper. I was able to physically have a print and display the photo of what I had created for people to see.
It's said best in the Kodachrome movie,
"People are taking more pictures now than ever before, billions of them, but there are no slides, no prints. Just data. Electronic dust. Years from now when they dig us up there won't be any pictures to find, no record of who we were or how we lived."