If you use a film scanner it makes sense to take pictures with an analog camera. I started photography with the analog technique like many others. As I've got the chance to delevop black and white film at my own, this was the media of my choice. Soon after my first steps in photography the digital cameras came down into a market which I could pay and also the quality was usable. So I bougth my first digital one. But I did never stop taking pictures onto b/w-films from time to time. I would miss the feeling to do something with my hands. To develop the films and to enlarge the pictures onto photosensitive paper.
You don't need a big laboratory to develop your own films. Just some tools for developing, a completely dark room and some chemicals. The tools, films you'll find at e-Bay or ask you photo store of your choice, which also can sell you the chemicals. The dark room might be a cellar or you can use a dark bag which you even can carry with you. And for the camera take a look at your parents or grandparents attic or e-Bay.
Now you need a little patience to get used to the handling. Tutorials for developing films you'll get from the internet or a friend who also does analog photography. And even if you don't want to buy all that stuff and learn the handling, just send the films to a photo laboratory which develops b/w films.
In any case, it's worth to give it a try because taking pictures with analog technique differs from the digital one in a way which level up your photographic skills.
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