Poll: How many lenses in your 4x5 field kit?

[mrladewig]

I carry only 2 or 3 lenses for 4X5 with me hiking/backpacking and indicated as such in the poll. I selected my camera based on weight and try to keep my entire kit as light as I can. I usually try to chose the lenses by estimating needs in a topo map program. I do landscape photography and very much try to pre-visualize the shots I'm going to try to get. But for general close to home stuff, I just choose three. I am taking a road trip (technically an off-road trip) in a couple of months and will likely take all 5 on that trip since I'll have the jeep.

My kit consists of
65/8 Super Angulon
75/8 Super Angulon
125/5.6 -NW Fuji
150/5.6 Symmar-S
210/5.6 -NW Fuji

Eventually I might add a 90, 180 and a compact 300mm like a Nikkor M or Fuji A.

[Brian K]

On my current trip:

65mm Grandagon
90mm Grandagon
120mm Sironar- N
150mm Sironar-S
200mm Nikkor M
270mm Nikkor T-ED
360mm Nikkor T-ED
500mm rear element for Nikkor T-ED

Pack weight? With a Linhof MT3000, 2 Sinar Zooms, Polaroid back, meters, filters, etc, about 45 pounds. The tripod adds another 8 and the vest, filled with more meters, swarovski laser monocular, linhof universal viewfinder, flash lights, loupes, more filters, etc weigh about 10 pounds. So I end up hiking with about 63 pounds of gear attached to me. This is why my hikes are getting shorter and my drives are getting longer.

[mrladewig]

In contrast I can haul my Tachihara, 3 lenses, Quickload holder, 20 sheets, GND filters and such. I use a digital slr as my meter and for snapshots on trail. It happens to be a Rebel XT, which is a light body coupled to either a 17-40 or even lighter 10-22. Its roughly 15 pounds all together including tripod.

With 2 liters of water, jacket, food etc, my day pack usually weighs 30 pounds. I'm hoping to keep my backpacking trips below 65 pounds this summer. My winter backpacking trip with the 4X5 tipped the scales at 65 pounds and I wasn't carrying the tent or stove.

[Darren Kruger]

90mm f8 Super Angulon
150mm Symmar
210mm Symmar
Chrome all the way.

I might be adding my 300mm APO-Germinar to the mix though.

-Darren

[ljb0904]

I'll either take a 3 lens kit (for the light days)
75-135-240
or I'll take a 5 lens kit (general days)
75-135-180-240-400

I think I'm gonna trade the 135 for a 120

[tgtaylor]

7: 75 Grandagon, 90 Grandagon, 120 Nikkor SW, 120 Nikkor Micro, 150 Rodenstock Apo Sirona S, 210 Schneider, and 300 Nikkor-M.

For multiple day backpacks, the 150mm Rodenstock which fits attached in a Toyo 45CF and the 300 Nikkor-M.

For day hikes I pack whatever lens combination I think I might possibly need but rarely, if ever, all seven.

A few years ago, when I was getting into LF, I was privately critical of Jack Dykinga - whose photograhy I greatly admired - when I read that he owned 6 LF lens. Three lens are all you need I had reasoned at the time: A wide, normal, and long lens. Now I find myself owning more than he did at the time!

But, like Jack, I use all of my lens and that's what counts.

Thomas

[Wilbur Wong]

All Nikkor, each 50% longer than the last generally. Starts at 65, 90, 135, 210, 300, 500 (tele).

Lightness, the 210 is a W 5.6, will eventually be replace with a M 200. The 90 is an 4.5SW, it may eventually be an 8.0.

I do carry them all (I'm a couple of years past 6th decade, I don't know how much longer that I will keep that up!)