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Cheers. Dunno about really skilled - I just shoot so much that I get lucky ;)
The RB67 is great and terrible. The quality is great, the camera handles well (in a lot of respects) and it's really simple. However, it is massive, heavy, a pain in the arse to fine focus (I need a split prism viewing screen), it is slow to focus and the shutter is occasionally unreliable. The shutter lag is also not great for a lot of stuff.
I had a look at my friend's ETRSi the other day and I was seriously jealous of how much smaller and lighter it is. I do love getting 6x7 negs though.
A lot of people comment on my stubbornness with carrying the RB67 around. It's not that bad once you get used to it and it's hard to leave behind when you think that 35mm won't cut it.
In short, it'd be nice to have something smaller and faster but for now, it definitely does the job.