I studied photography as part of the design courses I did when I was at college years ago (we are talking traditional wet film/darkroom stuff here, because it was a long time ago). I like it and maintain a vague interest in it since I'm involved in training people on Photoshop amongst other things these days, but to be honest, I don't really have that much time to indulge in it as a hobby, so I currently make do with a bit of a crappy Olympus digital camera, although both my wife and I keep threatening to buy a Nikon digital SLR (she's a designer).
Chock