he still talks about it as if it were legendary.

I've known a number of people who have done that over the years - and I have to say, having one and working with it - I can understand why they feel that way - (and I have 4 other different types of medium format camera, as well, so it isn't just a case of first use 'ooh big negative pretty' - i already went through that a year ago :)

It really feels like/seems like swiss watch-making applied to cameras.