What was your first lens?

[Sdrubansky]

Please share what your first LF glass was
and whether you still have it/use it.

Mine was a Schneider f5.6 135mm Componon-S in Copal #0
and it came with the 4x5 monorail camera I bought used.
Still very fond of it for close up work.

Mat

[Mark Sampson]

1946 Kodak 127/4.7 Ektar on a 3x4 Speed Graphic, later on a 4x5 Tachihara. It's long retired but I still have it.

[darr]

My first LF lens was a Schneider 210 that I bought new when I began my product photography studies at Portfolio Center in the '80s. I sold it along with my first rail camera, a Calumet a few years later. I found the 150-180 range fits my personal space better in the studio.

[William Whitaker]

210mm Nikkor-W purchased new from B&H in 1982 and sold in '95. I was in Boston in '82 and someone at Fast Phil Levine's had shown me a 210 Dagor. But I was skeptical of used lenses and didn't feel secure buying an old lens.

Boy, have times changed!!

[sanchi heuser]

My first lens was also a Schneider, bought used, an ex rent item, from Calumet Düsseldorf 2006:
Symmar-S 5.6/150 with Copal 0.
It has a "sinar" engraving on the barrel (not on the glass ),
maybe a selected lens or sold together with a Sinar camera?

However, it's a really good lens and
I still have it.

[vinny]

schneider 150mm symmar-s bought new just before the L series came out. It was sharp at f16 but not over that so I sold it for nearly what I paid, luckily. I have many other lenses (all used) that I'm very happy with. I'll never buy another new lens.

[drew.saunders]

120 APO-Symmar, bought with my Tachihara from Badger as part of their starter package (normally includes a 150, but they swapped for me). I still have it and still use it, but might replace it with a Fuji 125 for the greater coverage, as I sometimes exceed the APO-Symmar's coverage.

[Bill_1856]

1951. Postwar Steinheil Unifokal 150mm f:4.5 (coated) in a Press-Compur X-sync shutter. I have never seen another for sale anywhere.

[ashlee52]

Already mentioned once... and I'll bet a bunch of other people's first lens too... a 127mm Ektar 4.7 on a Speed Graphic, which I acquired in 1967 or so.

[Ole Tjugen]

A 210mm Schneider Xenar f:4.5, which came with my first camera - a 13x18cm Linhof Technika.

Then I bought a second 13x18 Technika since the first one only had a 4x5" back - and lots of dents - which came with a 150mm f:5.6 Symmar, a 360mm f:5.6 Tele-Xenar, and a 300mm f:4.5 Xenar. Oddly enough the two cameras came from the same place and except the 300mm Xenar, the lenses that came with the second camera would have been more useful with the first camera and the 4x5" back...