I originally picked my Burke & James 4x5 Press up with the intentions of using it as a body for pinhole photos, but its condition was too nice to only give it that function. Thus, it got me hooked on large format photography.
Here is a special bonus. I went and scanned the manual for the camera. Interesting book to flip through. Most noticably though because off the endorsments given in it from the famous Weegee
Article with a copy of the Burke & James 4x5 Press user manual available for download.