cool coincidence ...my dad too.. was a professional.
the collection of cameras nest to his darkroom was a wonder to behold.
there are still a lot of people who use the large format film cameras even given the price of silver...there days.
I laid off making photographs for well over thirty years before diving back into it about a dozen years ago.
I was cleaning out my Mom’s basement last year and i came across my old enlarger. It was a Vivitar and weighed a ton. I could still smell the developer in the room. You never forget that smell!
Isn’t FR WONDERFUL? :-)