>>3312082I think it's mostly because it's an easy entry to art per say, If you start to draw, it looks like shit and you know it. If you start taking photos, your shit photos can look cool.
When I starting to look at it (and ignorant of the technical effort) I wanted to do something more instinctual and less analytical but I ended up just turning into an autist doing algebra to calculate exposure from lux.
Plus it gets you the fuck outside. If you read math textbooks, for example, for a lengthy amount of time, even if you like it, you'll fucking lose your mind sometimes.
>trivial and left as an exercise for the readerPurer things like theoretical physics and math are extremely competitive with little return on investment unless you have an applied minor or internships to back it up.
For the engineers it may be just disposable income and admiration of the machinery in cameras, old mechanical film bodies or modern digital.
