For me the sic was never massively linked to lba, just like Ismo said it was always a proving ground. It taught me how to shoot fish eye and uwa, it taught me how to control dof and distance perception and I still get them wrong. But the main thing it did was leave me with a profound understanding that the lenses I own are everything and all I need, some, like Sandy's 20-40 go beyond that, and my LBA has shifted to film gas. Lol.
As for film, I am about a year in. Yeah I shot film badly back in the day but never tried to understand it. As I got into photography I just knew I had to give it a go. I now have a mint Pentax MX, a pocket rangefinder .....stop waggling your eyebrows its a Ricoh 500rf. In medium format twin lens reflex I have an absolutely pristine yashica mat, one of the late ones (1972) with the f2.8 viewing lens, and a 1946 Zeiss Ikoflex ii/I that could have been a bit soft, post WWII Zeiss lenses sometimes were, but mine is so nice I have one comp entry (so far).
I will need to specify it is a film shot because some judges are idiots but it will predate all other cameras in our club competitions by at least 65 years, which is cool in itself. Like I said, I am a year in and I think film has had an impact on the care I take before hitting that shutter button.
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As for developing @MikeyFloyd yep, I home dev mono. That's a rabbit hole all by itself. I started out wanting to be Chem free (caffenol) but soon succumbed to ID-11, Rodinal and HC110. The latter is tremendous for expired film. I bought a bulk loader with some mystery film inside. It turned out to be 10m of ilford FP4 safety film that probably expired in the late 80s. FP4 is iso125 but the wisdom is remove one stop per decade so I shot the first at 64 and developed it in ID-11. It wasn't great, so the next film was shot at 64, developed at 250 in HC110, much better. Remember, this film is over 30years old and was probably stored in a cupboard!
If you fancy developing expired mono film, get some hc110, seriously, big difference!
As for doing a film sic, what a great plan. Having my loader, now full of Fomapan200 I can make a roll with 31 shots on it and literally take one per day. I could do it on the MX, the only issue would be posting. As it would be developed on day 32 should I go back in and add each shot on the correct day? Judge Ismo, we need a ruling (I say "we" because I am sure others will have a go? Mikey? Chris? Keith?