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Okay well I'm not gonna lie, I didn't read this whole thread but I'm going to give you my opinion anyways.
If you really want to learn to do photography get a film camera (used is good, even old film cameras work great) and take a class somewhere. I find that if you are just starting out you will learn more working with film than you will with digital. This is because if you start with digital you will learn to rely on the technology rather than your knowledge and that is very hard to undo. Film cameras will only give you higher quality if you shoot medium or large format, 35mm is like...10 megapixels? (not sure if I'm right at all, just a guess). I personally love film and I shoot mostly in film for this reason. I have access to a darkroom though so it's a little different. Though if you take a class at a community college or something (very common for hobbyists) you will probably be able to learn to work in a darkroom and you may find you like it.
If you work with film but you don't develop and print it yourself you are seriously damaging what could be done with it. Mainly if you take it to Walmart or even if you send it out to Kodak, I would not reccomend that. If you really don't want to develop film yourself but you want to work with film there are specialty shops where they will develop the film by hand for you and the end result is much better than one of the one hour photo places.
Digital has it's merits and I'm not trying to bash it but you will learn more from starting out with film and it will benefit you in the future.
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