I use two on my 4x5 (out of choice), and I don't really ever feel the need for any others. I have had others in the past but ended up selling them after they just sat around without being used. I don't think that I could limit myself to just one lens, but the two that I have currently serve meet all of my needs very well (and no, neither is a convertible lens)
- Randy
Weegee endorsed a few different cameras in the course of his career, but I think he always used the stock lens.
Tough question... but I'm finding myself gravitating toward one of my LF lenses more and more these days: a 5.5 inch Kodak Anastigmat in dial Compur shutter on an Anniversary Graphic. Typical subject matter is environmental portraiture.
Sometimes I wonder why I spent so much money on lenses over the years when this old cheap-y works just as well for most of my photographic interests.
Well, I'm a former single lens photographer with about 3 years with a 14" Commercial Ektar on the 8x10 'dorff before sliding off down this terrible slope of glassaholism. But I'm back on the wagon--I haven't bought a new camera lens in over a year! I still get the shakes when I surf ebay though.
"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority"---EB White
My 8x10 Century was re-built around a 210 lens, which I use exclusively.
I guess that it's obviously pretty rare (if it exists at all).
Wilhelm (Sarasota)
all my lenses for personal work are 210s.
Majority of my work on 4x5 is done with 240. However, I don't shoot architecture.
Only one lens, a 65mm for 6x9 and have been shooting this for 4 years.
Sometimes I feel I would like a longer lens but haven't bothered buying one yet. I probably end up cropping a little more than others might though. A portrait lens would be very handy.
Roman Loranc, for quite some time,on his 4x5 he used only a Nikon 210,
seems to have worked well for him.
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