I like the Olympus camera that I purchased 40+ years ago.

[sir pball]

8. It's nowhere near as dire as the naysayers make it out to be.

I've gotten back into shooting my old Nikkormat and while it's definitely a smaller ecosystem, it's not going anywhere soon. The film market has actually been growing the last few years, driven both by hipsters wanting to be ironically retro with the Holgas, and their 90s-era point-and-shoots, and enthusiastic amateurs wanting to learn about or get back to the nuts and bolts behind the digital trickery, or do things you simply can't do with Photoshop.

Fuji still makes the single greatest film of all time, Velvia, along with a decent line of slide and negative films. Kodak is merrily churning out Portra, by far my favorite negative film, and has even revived Ektachrome in light of the growing demand. Sadly no Kodachrome...yet - nobody's made a digital filter that can get that look...

The B&W landscape has been stable for a couple of decades; Ilford still makes the Delta line and Kodak still makes T-Max and Tri-X. Of course, home development is the way to go, and all that hardware and chemistry is still readily available. If you want to make actual silver halide prints, your options are more limited (and expensive), but given that there's still nothing digital that comes close to a medium-format B&W film printed on fiber-base paper, I don't think that niche is going to entirely disappear anytime soon.

Happy shooting!