Most proponents of film photography shout about the analogue nature of the images: the graininess, the way the shadows are more supposedly more gradual, the colour palette is unique to each type of film, etc.
Some of that may be true but I think modern editing software now allows you to edit your digital shots so they mimic closely film images.
To me the most useful aspect of film photography is it is not free. Every shot costs money. You have to buy film, you have to develop it either at a price charged by a photo lab or using your own chemicals which also cost money and time.
This makes you want to be judicious with your shutter button. You think twice, before pressing it once. You check your exposure settings and your composition before deciding it is worth the film.
This means you try your best to make each shot count and be more likely and not to be a keeper.
Sure, you can tell yourself to do that with your digital camera but in my experience, I became better at that after I got into film photography for some time.
This shot was taken in London on my Olympus OM-1 with Olympus Zuiko Auto-S 50mm F1.8 lens. The film used was Ilford HP5+ pushed to ISO3200.
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