Your "go-to" lens for a 5x7?

[evan clarke]

I keep my 110 XL mounted on my 5x7.

[Greg Y]

8 1/4" goldrim Dagor.....if there were only one lens this would be it.
We'll see if the newly mounted Galli (thanks Jim) 240 Heliar does at elbowing in...

[John Bowen]

210 Symmar cuz it seems to match how I see

[Bernice Loui]

Depending on what is required, usually:


#1, 8-1/2" Kodak Commercial Ektar in barrel. This one stays on the Sinar with the Sinar shutter..

*12" Commercial Ektar in barrel.

*110mm Symmar XL in Copal shutter.

*19" Red Dot Artar in barrel.

This is what lives in the camera case, if there is something specific I'm looking for there is a pile of others lenses to choose from.


Bernice

So as a theoretical or perhaps practical exercise, what lens (focal length wise) is your #1 go-to lens for your 5x7?

As a brief follow-up, you might say why that lens/focal length is your go-to choice.

Thanks in advance!

(the thought occurred that if I could parse all 5x7 images posted to the forum and somehow extract what lens they were shot with, I would have my answer, but that would take some advanced data mining...)

[gregmo]

Looking back at my 5x7 shots, 150mm has been my most used focal length with 300mm second & 600mm third.

[BradS]

about 90% of my 5x7 LF photos were made with the the 210mm Sironar-N. At the time, I would also use the 150mm Fujinon-W

[John Kasaian]

On the Speed Graphic movement isn't an issue, so the 203 Ektr gets the nod. On the Agfa, a 159mm WA yellow dot Wollensack or 14" Apo Artar see the most use.

[DannL]

At the present there are two Bausch & Lomb Rapid Rectilinear elements screwed into the shutter. I believe they have a focal length near or about 177mm when used together, and 290mm when used separately, which also covers 8x10 nicely. Every time I "go to" open the camera, there they are.

[Daniel Stone]

In order of most used to least used:
240A Fuji, 450C Fuji, 180A Fuji, 300A Fuji, 90mm Nikkor

The 450C is only 3 shots "behind" the 240A though, so I'd call them an "even" tie because I sometimes forget to record exposures

A 125SW Fuji should be landing anytime now, for some reason that's been a missed FL in the kit(that I'd be reaching for almost first, all the time). But somehow I end up finding something else to frame up instead

[C. D. Keth]

When I had a 5x7, it was an 8-1/2 inch commercial ektar.