How many lenses do you carry in the field?

[Jody_S]

I used to haul 5 or 6, I'm now quite happy with 2. Rarely 3.

[DrTang]

depends what I'm photographing... I rarely go out without an idea of what and where I'm going to shoot...so I pick a lens I think will work ..like a 12" (for 5x7) and then toss in a 210 and maybe a 360 just in case

with my 4x5..I might toss it into the car when out farting around so I will have a 90, 150, 210 with me


8x10 is almost always in a studio type shoot so..I'll bring them all - might as well

[C. D. Keth]

You probably should have done the poll with a bar for single, double, triple lenses as that is where the most people are.

Yeah, now I wish I had just made more specific answers rather than groups. I honestly thought more people here would be in the 7-9 category.

[vinny]

7 when I'm shooting 4x5, 5 (plus my 165 super angulon in the car) when shooting 8x10.

[David de Gruyl]

Crown Graphic: 1 (135)
4x5 (other): 3 (90/150/240)
8x10: 2 (240 and 12"/21"/28")

Three lenses seem to cover my range pretty well. The size of those lenses seems to vary based on which camera I am using, of course.

[Kodachrome25]

I own 6 for my 4x5, 65, 90, 135, 150, 180, 240 but will only carry 3-5 at one time. I don't like cropping in the darkroom so I make sure I have the composition I want in the camera. Subjects other than landscape I can do 1-3, landscape is more like 3-5 since I can often be perched on cliff bands and such.

[E. von Hoegh]

Three, 90mm, 6", 8 1/4" for 4x5; one or two (either a 30cm or a 240mm amd 360mm) with 8x10. They're all small and light.

[austin granger]

I've been shooting mostly 5x7 for awhile now. I have two lenses, a 180 and a 250. I use the 180 when I can't back up.

[alexn]

I take 75/4.5, 90/8 everywhere I go. I want to add a 210 to 360mm in the future...

[munz6869]

I take 3 - a 65mm, 135mm & 300mm. That said, the vast majority of pictures made on my 6-week travel epic in June were shot with one fixed lens (90mm) on a Fuji GW680III... thus confirming previous statements about one lens simplifying everything...

Marc!