Your minimalist field photo kit?

[cosmicexplosion]

kodak 2d 360mm dagor

cloth meter 6 dark slides.

miller fluid head wooden tripod.

lupe.

enthusiasm.

[Bill_1856]

Bill, I hope you dont let that stop you from eating all your arteriosclerosis inducing favouites like burgers, pizza, cheese, fries, steak, sausages, chicken, pork, pies, milkshakes, milk, eggs, butter, ice cream or anything else made from animals. Just sit back and let your belt out another hole or two. Photo trips and breathing are over rated anyhow.

I always wondered what they put in a Haggis. Now i know.

[Scotty230358]

Walker Titan with 125 Fujinon and 180mm Symmar, plus 2 grafmatics. If I want even lighter weight I will substitute the Fujinon for a very small and light Berlin Series III Dagor.

[Diane Maher]

Minimalist kit:
Japanese whole plate, five holders, 270 mm Crown Anastigmat w/air bulb release, light meter, dark cloth, Toyo loupe, notebook, pen and bubble level. Gitzo 1348 tripod w/3047 head.

5x12 Canham, five holders, 450 mm Nikkor-M, light meter, dark cloth, Toyo loupe, notebook, pen and bubble level. Gitzo 1348 tripod w/3047 head.

Of course, I am not a backpacker, nor do I plan to be, but this is my best guess for a minimalist kit.

Diane

The scary thing is that over the years, this list has not changed much.

I'd add a Cooke PS945 for the whole plate kit. The 5x12 kit would have a 600 mm Fujinon-C, 240 mm Docter, a 150 mm Schneider SS-XL, and a 180 mm Dagor Series III added. I'd also have to add an 8x10 Canham, with Cooke XVa and a whole plate reducing back.

[Carsten Wolff]

For hiking I usu. take a light 5x7 w/a bellows Arca in an Omnitrekker pack and 2-3 lenses:
A two lens kit may consist of only the tiny 104mm and 159 WA Raptar, both with widened preview-apertures to f6.5.
Occasionally I take an uncoated convertible 10"f6.8 Conley (Alphax 3) or a (coated) 15" Wolly-Tele (Alphax 4; great for portraits and general photog. and perhaps my favourite lens, but not "minimalist"). It all fits (using Linhof boards)!
If I want colour/pano: I'd perhaps grab a 617 Canham back and substitute with 3 smallish modern lenses: 90mm f8 SW-Nikkor, 135mm Fuji-W, 210mm f6.3 Komura

[Raglansurf]

Hello folks, I've lurked on this site for quite a while now and never really felt knowledgable enough to get involved but I feel that might be about to change. Until recently I had a Toyo 45 monorail camera, I have tried very hard to like but just found it too cumbersome to use on a regular basis and lug out into the countryside so, I have just become the proud owner of a Nagaoka 4x5 field camera, bought from Ed Bray a fellow member on this site and on the TP forum where I spend most of my time and although I've only been out a couple of times I have limited myself to the camera, Fujinon 65mm f8 & Symmar - S 150mm f5.6 lenses, focussing cloth, a cf tripod, light-meter and 6 dark slides. I have to say so far I'm chuffed to bits with the quality of the kit and to be able to take a 4x5 camera with a choice of lenses out into the sticks without needing a porter is an absolute dream, I only hope my photos can do the camera and lenses justice.

[Scotty230358]

Walker Titan 45SF, 120mm Series III Berlin Dagor, 180mm Symmar, 300mm Apo Ronar 2 Grafmatics, Spot meter, Filters, lens hoods and a Feisol Tripod with Manfrotto Junior Geared Head. If shooting 6x9 then two Roll film backs, 75mm Fujinon, 150mm Symmar, 240mm Apo Ronar plus above mentioned sundries and tripod.