Your minimalist field photo kit?

[John Kasaian]

5x7
Speed Graphic with 203 Ektar in situ, a black tee shirt & five holders in a Jansport Equinox daypack with a Tiltall strapped on board(if I want the luxury of a tripod) and some Wratten series something or other filters.
8x10
Gowland aerial focused for infinity with a 300 M Nikkor and one (1) film holder riding inside and a lightmeter 'round my neck (with only two shots I want to be certain of the exposure) a Tiltall Junior and seperate cable release (if I need a tripod) A few filters borrowed from my Nikon SLR. If I need more than one filmholder I can fit five or maybe six in the Jansport Equinox
12x20
You're joking, right?
8x10 Deardorff
Camera, with 240 G Claron reversed and folded inside carried in one hand, Ries tripod in the other. Light meter & loupe around the neck, extra film holders, filters & dark cloth in a Jansport Equinox(unless I either need a lot of them or maybe one free hand for support, then the 'dorff and film holders ride in GI surplus 5 gallon water cooler with a shoulder strap, but man that gets heavy!)

[Brian C. Miller]

Com'on every backpacker knows a tab of blotter is far lighter than any other intoxicant.

Yeah you probably don't need a camera. Or anything else, not even clothes. Man.

Boy I sure was a wise-ass back in 2008.

You've changed??

Ilford Titan pinhole camera.
One holder, either Grafmatic or normal.
Benbo Trekker tripod.
Birkenstocks.

"And they call him the streak ... fastest thing on two feet ... And he ain't wearin' no clothes!"

[E. von Hoegh]

Gee, maybe there should be an "extreme" "reality" TV show about LF photography. They could hire some bozo like Peter Lik.

[Eric Rose]

My mini kit is a Tech IV, Kodak Ektar 120 (the lens), small Manfrotto tripod, Grafmatic and a cable release.

[Doremus Scudder]

Peter Lik has a show already...

[Brian Ellis]

My minimal back when this thread started was a Tachihara camera, G Claron 150mm lens or Schneider APO Symmar 210mm lens, Peak loupe, and two film holders carried in a little shoulder bag designed for a 35mm camera. Pentax digital spot Meter on belt, Gitzo 1325 tripod over shoulder.

[E. von Hoegh]

My minimal back when this thread started was a Tachihara camera, G Claron 150mm lens or Schneider APO Symmar 210mm lens, Peak loupe, and two film holders carried in a little shoulder bag designed for a 35mm camera. Pentax digital spot Meter on belt, Gitzo 1325 tripod over shoulder.

I took a 4x5 on my last rip to Germany. Nagaoka,6" Dagor, two filmholders; lightweight wood tripod, meter and so on which I was bringing anyway for my Nikon F.

[Bill Burk]

Gee, maybe there should be an "extreme" "reality" TV show about LF photography. They could hire some bozo like Peter Lik.

I'll do it. But it has to be filmed in IMAX.

[jp498]

Any reality show worth it's salt, especially if it's got to get young people into photography, has to have overtired drunken brawls (or catfights) Plenty of divisive issues to spill bad beer over; cindy sherman, pyro developer choices, bokeh, kodak versus ilford, perhaps some matlab calculus to show why wooden tripod are better than aluminum/carbon, etc...

[jeroldharter]

Wehman 8x10
G-Claron 240
Fujinon C 450
Feisol tripod with Gitzo head
Gossen Digisix meter