Although seemingly a repeat of a similar March 2023 thread, the rerun of this topic is somewhat timely. Of people sharing images onto UHH, I probably shoot as much film as any of the UHH community. Just this morning I finally put together a post of selected images from last summer's Race to Mac, all shot on film: https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-774761-1.html

For cost, I shoot almost exclusively expired film. The post linked above is all color film, all expired / discontinued stocks with dates from 2001-2004. I'm not interested in self-processing, so these rolls are professionally processed and scanned to relatively high resolution (17MP) JPEGs, then processed in Adobe Lightroom.

Personally, I sold off all my manual focus film bodies almost a decade ago. The cost of film is too high for out of focus results, especially when I can share my EF lenses onto an EOS body. Scanning is time consuming, so I pay to have it done along with processing.

To the OP's question of "why", it's really just to do something different, creating something that looks different too. In the case of the Race to Mac above, that was 6-rolls, one an entire waste where some ISO-3200 B&W film just didn't come out with acceptable results. So there's a disappointment, both for the wasted time and money, and the lost documentation of a section of the event.

For those interested in film, getting (re)started or discussing techniques / film stocks, we have a Film Photography section. Add to your subscription list.

We have a B&W Photography section too, where this is the images, both digital and film. Again, consider visiting and adding the section to your subscription list.