What's in your 4x5 Lens kit?

[dave_whatever]

65mm
90mm
150mm
These do me for 4x5", 2x5" and 6x7. So I think of them as 9 lenses.

[Armin Seeholzer]

47mm
75mm
90mm
120mm
135mm
155mm
210mm
240mm
300mm,360mm,480mm, 600mm

[Bruce A Cahn]

55, 75, 90, 135, 150, 180, 210, 240, 300, but I could live without the 135, 180 and 300.

[stealthman_1]

47, 75, 90, 150, 210, 300, 400.
I use the 90, 150, 300 the most. I'd like to be able to shoot 600, but that would mean an Ebony and I can crop 8x10 a lot cheaper than buying another Ebony...

[Darko]

I shot landscapes and abstratcs:

Lenses are:

65 Schneider Kreuznach Super Angulon
120 Schneider Kreuznach Angulon
165 Rodenstock Eurynar
180 Schneider Kreuznach Symmar
180 Voigtlander Heliar
210 Emil Busch Nicola Perscheid
250 Emil Busch Rapid Aplanat

Darko

[Anton Lukoszevieze]

9x12cm Edelweiss folder (1928), 135 mm Zeiss Tessar f4.5 (1929), 105 mm Voigtlander Heliar f3.5 (1927), 168 mm Goerz Dagor Anastigmat f6.8 (1922), Orange filter, lens hood, Efke & Adox 25, Lunasix 3 Meter, all in small, black Billingham shoulder bag.

[Matus Kalisky]

All used with Tachi 4x5 mostly for landscapes and cityscapes:

- 75/4.5 Grandagon-N (in a recessed board still a bit tight on the Tachi, but usable - rise/fall are limited by the bellows)
- 125/5.6 Fujinon CM-W (my favorite lens - I like the focal length and it is very sharp from wide open. The deeper recessed front element makes it harder to touch it with a finger although it requires larger filter - 67mm)
- 240/9 Fujinon A (last in the collection - small, sharp)
- 400/8 Osaka Tele - works fine. While not the sharpest lens it is still plenty good for 16x20" prints. The front standard of the Tachi gets a bit shaky when this lens is used closer than infinity (min is about 5m at full extension), but can be done with care. One needs to be careful - the coverage is about 200mm and with lens this long it is easy to cut a corner.

If I could I would swap the 400/8 for Fujinon C 450/12.5 but I would have to change the camera first. And the Tachi just does what I need. But it is not easy to find a field camera that handles on a flat board lenses from 75 - 450 and is still light and stable.

[David K.]

Master Technika with the following lenses:

80mm 4.5 Super Symmar XL

120 5.6 Super Symmar HM

210 5.6 Apo Sironar-S

300 9.0 Apo Ronar

[Thom Bennett]

All Fuji's (thanks Kerry Thalmann!) on Deardorff Special (4x5, 5x7, 6x7, 6x9, 6x12 formats) & 8x10 Deardorff.

75mm SWD
90mm SW
135mm NWS
180mm CMW
300mm CMW (use on 8x10 as well)

250mm f6.7 (strictly 8x10)

Plan on getting the 450mm for use on 4x5 to 11x14.

My approach to these lengths was that each was ~50% longer than the one previous to it, i.e. 90 x .50 = 45; 90 + 45 = 135. Also, only two filter sizes needed: 52mm & 67mm.

[redrockcoulee]

In my bag with the Shen Hao is my first lens a 150 Symmar (actually my second copy of that lens as sold the first with an earlier camera) and is my most used lens, a 210 Symmar S single coated and a 90 6.8 Caltar that is replacing a 90 6.8 Angulon, and two pinhole lenses. I do have a 120 Angulon that was for our 5X7 that I can just fit into the bag but that is the limit as the camera bag is then full which is not a bad thing to be (no additional weight or costs one hopes).

If started over I would consider a 180 instead of the 150 and 210.