Is a 300mm lense a use focal length for 4x5???

[sethlatimer]

I love my 300 f9 lens for landscape. I like the angle of view so much that I am thinking about getting another 300 that is faster for portraits and still life.

[Mark Sampson]

stradibarrius, the Nikkor-M lenses are indeed designed to the Tessar formula.

[Tobias Key]

The 300mm is a dangerous lens. If you buy one you'll start thinking about shooting 8x10... so it could end up costing you a lot of money

[E. von Hoegh]

The 300mm is a dangerous lens. If you buy one you'll start thinking about shooting 8x10... so it could end up costing you a lot of money

A 12" Goerz Red Dot Artar doesn't cover 8x10, so it's safe.
There was a really nice 30cm C.P. Goerz Berlin Dagor, in a Compound, on feepay recently...

[Mark Stahlke]

The 300mm is a dangerous lens. If you buy one you'll start thinking about shooting 8x10... so it could end up costing you a lot of money

That's what happened to me. I realized I had lenses that would cover 8x10 but no 8x10 camera to mount them on. Of course I had to rectify that situation.

[Vaughn]

Has anyone actually bought a Fuji W 300/5.6 for a 4x5?

I use a Gowland 4x5 Pocket View -- weighs about 2 pounds. Not only is the front standard too small to take a Copal 3 mounted lens, the lens would out-weigh the camera!LOL!

I do love it on my 8x10, though!

[stradibarrius]

I am suprised that so many people have responded! It is almost unanimous that the 300, 350 even 450 are very useful lenses. This afternoon I bought a Nikon 300m f/6 form someone on this forum. I felt that it would be really useful.

[AJ Edmondson]

I still have one but use it infrequently... during the years when I was in Arizona, Texas and California I used it much more frequently but here in the southeast I seem to be more concerned with opening up the space than compressing the distance. Again it is one of those things where you have to decide for yourself - based on your own photographic vision - if it works for you.
Joel

[munz6869]

Yes - on my 5x4" Wista the bellows are out as far as it's possible to get them, and I wouldn't want to focus on anything too close... but I have got some smashing shots with that focal length!

Marc!

[EdoNork]

I have been looking the Nikkor lenses catalog and there are two type of long lenses, Type T and Type W (this is a broad rage of lenses). They mark T as real telephoto lenses. What is the real difference between two types? They are fisically very differents, one short, others long, for similar focal lengths.