What would Weston have done?

For fans of sport it is a frequent topic of speculation to wonder what great teams or players of the past might have achieved in the modern era. More personal, I sometimes wonder what my playwright grandfather would have made of the internet age. The magazine he founded, Amateur Stage, covering amateur theatre in the UK, now has an online existence and even a Facebook page. And so in photography, what would some of the greats of the past have made of the the possibilities afforded by current photographic technology. Would they persist with the old, or immerse themselves in the possibilities of the new? Edward Weston's famous peppers were taken with a 10 x 8 film camera, and contact printed (therefore the same size as the negative) in black and white. But he was restricted by the technology of the day to black and white and only a handful of images a day. What would he have made of today's cameras? I took forty images of my pepper in the time it took the grill to heat up to cook it. And all in colour. Or black and white, if I wanted to change it in post production. Or cross-processed, or any of the myriad of other techniques that are available to the modern photographer. And yet people say that post-processing isn't 'real'. But black and white is?