I already understood this from photography, and other artistic/crafty activities. You don't really learn things, or get your exercises to stick, if you don't have fun doing it, and are fighting the process.
If you start out with photography, get a good camera, and good lenses! You can only then make the jump to lesser equipment, once you have a good understanding of how things work, and therefore can work around or even lean into detrimental constraints.
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