Re: Many good points - however
i.e. 4 x 5" negative
When I was living in Switzerland the lab of the company I was working for had all manner of whizzzo cameras. So in order to look like Edward Wymper I took a Linhof Technika ice climbing. Not as difficult as you might think, but the negatives it created were off the scale. Grey scales even with intense lighting changes, sharpness that you could not break, even projecting on the walls of the canteen.
Majorly impressive. But as one film sheet at a time you needed something running at glacial speed if you wanted to do more than one shot
If you are photog - you need to use one just once to enjoy the myriad of adjustments and the contact sheets.