This opens up a huge range of creative opportunities that are unavailable to most users of 35mm and medium format gear. For example, if you want to take a photo of a building with a Nikon, you have to point the camera up towards the sky. You will then be projecting the vertical exterior of the building onto the angled film surface. The lines of the building will converge towards the top of the frame. I prefer metal cameras such as Calumet, Cambo, Linhof, and Sinar.
All view cameras work the same way.
What you pay for in a more expensive camera is the assurance that when the controls are zeroed, everything is in fact parallel and you'll get a sharp picture. In theory this should yield high-quality images. In practice, it does not. We had old cheap metal view cameras, loaded Tri-X, and developed the film and prints ourselves. Note this model is discontinued over licensing issues so buy quickly.