Speed graphic is OLD school. My Dad used one of those as an Army photographer in Korea.
I shot with film for several years before switching to digital.
The Speed Graphic was for rough and tumble. For most other things, it was Crown Graphics with Ultrablitz Matadors. I can’t believe I remember all this stuff.
I had a friend who retired from the Air Force as a photographer. He told me he once was sitting in a chair at the open door of ... I don’t know, a C-130? ... with a large camera in his lap. As he leaned out to take an aerial shot of an airbase, the camera got caught in the slip stream.
As the slip stream pulled the camera out of the plane with him holding it, he looked down and saw a red cross on top of one of the buildings, and thought to himself, well, at least I’ll land in a hospital.
About that time, someone grabbed him and pulled him back into the plane.