dunno, it's just interesting and cheap. Mostly interesting, if you still pay to develop the films anyway. All the funny angle, shapes, shadows, accidental exposures and so on.

My digital is, so far, good enough for what my skills are! lol

But yeah, i got an analog camera. The Canon EOS 300... pretty good, cheap (2nd hand) and although i have to clean it and the lenses are the simplest possible, it still does a good job. But i bought it thinking of taking the course, which means that so far it's being used as a lightmeter for the pinhole exposures! lol