Analog film photography and cameras

@Ste_S hhhhmmm ... you do have access to colour channels with b&w scans. Why is this helpful?

For me reasons to shoot b&w (over colour) include the huge flexibility with exposure and easy home development to (attempt) making the best of the exposure.

Converting c41 can look good and is a different type of flexible altogether ... but you can forget about the benefits up there^

And then there’s XP2 which can gtfo >>>>>>>>>>

;-)

( i actually quite like xp2 )

Absolutely agree on the reasons to shoot B&W if you're home developing and/or printing in a darkroom. For people like myself who get a lab to dev and scan, shooting colour and converting to B&W in Lightroom makes more sense and gives more flexibility.... however I'm not advocating this.
I've done if a few times, and converting something like Portra or Ektar can look close to T-Grain films like TMax or Delta. However it feels wrong for some reason - I might as well use a digital camera if I'm going down that path.
Plus you're going to have difficulty replicating trad films like Tri-X or HP5