Landscape Lens

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Poll on which Lens you use for landscape on a 5x4

1) Wider than 90
2) Longer than 90 and up to 135
3) Longer than 135 and up to 180
4) Longer than 180 and up to 300
5) Longer than 300

[Arne Croell]

All of the above...

[Brian Ellis]

1 through 4 (would be all of the above except that I've never owned own a lens longer than 300mm for 4x5).

[Walter Calahan]

All the above and MORE.

58, 65, 75, 90, 125, 150, 210, 300 and 500 mm, as well as a 120 mm micro.

[Preston]

I'd really like a 450 or a 500T when I can afford to buy a camera that has enough bellows extension to use one.
-Preston

[Eric Woodbury]

For 4x5, 58mm and up to 300mm. One more if I had the bellows. 5 total.

Walter, you must have a strong back.

[Ralph Barker]

Like many others, I use all of the above, depending on the objective for the individual image.

A more telling question would be which focal lengths are used most often.

For me, that would be 110mm (~40%) and 240mm (~30%) on 4x5.

[Ole Tjugen]

47mm to 550mm here...

[Vick Vickery]

While I would normally use my 160mm Turner-Reich triple convertible at 160mm, I occasionally could be seen with lenses anywhere from 65mm to 375mm on the front of the Cambo for different shots.

[seawolf66]

As far as this newbie is concerned, I agree with Ralph Barker which lens to use:

[drew.saunders]

Like many, I picked 1 through 4 because I don't have anything longer than a 300...yet.

Most used lens: 200 Nikkor M.

[Brian Vuillemenot]

Yet another "all of the above", currently 58-450, and I really want a Fuji 600 telephoto- I love long lenses to extract images from the landscape. Anyone have a Fuji 600 T they want to sell?

[Aender Brepsom]

I mostly use a 90mm and a 150mm lens on 4x5 for landscapes. Sometimes a 65mm, but that one is for 6x9 more often.
(And that is all the lenses I have got.)

[Bruce Watson]

None of the options fit me. I use 80-360mm lenses for my landscape work in 5x4.

[Clive Gray]

Mostly 90mm followed by 65mm then occasionally 210mm and a 420mm Apo ronar a few times and just for kicks I did have a play with a Docter APO-Germinar 750.

[Mark Sawyer]

I'm not sure about 4x5, but on 8x10 I think I'd take along:

12" single-coated tessar
12" Caltar II-N
12" IWSWG
12" Imagon
11.5" Verito
12.5" Cooke

[Kirk Fry]

75 mm to 14 inches. K

[Alan Davenport]

Interestingly, there isn't an option that includes 90mm....

[David Karp]

2 through 5.

Most used are 125mm and 210mm.

I use a 450mm far more than I ever thought I would.

[David Karp]

. . . Anyone have a Fuji 600 T they want to sell?

I have often wondered about this lens. It is very intriguing to me for use someday as my long lens on a Whole Plate camera.

Two problems: First, I can't afford one. Second, I don't think my arms are long enough to allow me to use it! Do users tilt/swing/raise/lower the front standard, then return to the ground glass to see the impact, and then run back and forth to get it right? I guess focusing the thing would not be a problem so long as the camera has back focus, but a real problem without it!

[David Karp]

I'm not sure about 4x5, but on 8x10 I think I'd take along:

12" single-coated tessar
12" Caltar II-N
12" IWSWG
12" Imagon
11.5" Verito
12.5" Cooke

Mark, that's just not normal. :D