Fellow Speed & Crown Graphic users, what do you carry?

[Shootar401]

Just curious to know what the Speed Graphic users out there carry with them. Here is my list.

Camera: Speed Graphic 4x5
Lens 1: Graflex Optar 135mm
Lens 2: Eastman Aero-Ektar (again, only when I know I will want to use it)
Lens 3: None, yet
Flash: Heiland 3 cell with Press 25 bulbs or Bantam 8's
Film: 2x Grafmatics with HP5 or Foma 400, & 3 standard holders with either Ektar 100 or Portra 400
Tripod: None usually, but a Manfrotto with a 410 geared head when I need it.
Accessories: Series VI adapter with a yellow, green, red, sky 1A, 85B, 80C filters and a Tiffen hood.

In the future: I'd like to add a 101mm and a longer 210mm-ish lens, and maybe swap out the 135mm for a 127mm. Still looking for a Series VI IR filter, no luck so far.

[Larry H-L]

Crown kit: 90mm Optar, 127 Ysarex, 135 Xenar, 152 Ektar, 203 Optar.

Holders - 6 or 8, meter, orange and green filters, Gitzo, cable release.

[Peter_Jones]

Just a basic kit of Crown (top rangefinder) , 135 Optar, some darkslides, 6x7 back, series 6 filter holder/hood (I can use 39mm filters in this), Manfrotto 055, cable release, loupe and a light meter. I use my jacket as a focus hood if needed.

(Phew!)

[Otto Seaman]

The least amount possible... film holders, a loupe, meter or digital camera, tripod in the car or over shoulder... and that's all. I keep a short cable release and lenshade on the folded up lens.

[Vick Ko]

'Graflex Crown Graphic, 135mm f/4.7 Optar, Polaroid back and light meter. Shooting with the rangefinder for now, and it is a blast.

[John Kasaian]

Besides the 5x7 Speeder: a thick black t-shirt(doubles as both a dark cloth and a lens cleaning cloth,) Agfa 9x loupe and vintage Tilt all tripod---"just in case", 203 Ektar, cable release, Kodak series filter adapted and some Wrattans, a light meter, a small note book & a half dozen film holders, and an old Jansport Equinox I bought at the sports shop in Yosemite Village. The speeder is mainly hand held---if I need a tripod & movements, I'll use the 8x10 'dorff.

[IanG]

Crown kit (or Super Graphic):

90mm f6.8 Angulon
135mm f5.6 Caltar S-II (symmar) or 150mm f4.5 CZJ Tessar T(coated).
6 or 8 DDS (film holders)

used hand-held HP5+
or with small Slik tripod Delta 100/Fomapan 100 or 200

Ian

[Otto Seaman]

Visuals

[dsphotog]

I use a Crown or a Super, depending on the situation.
135 Optar, Xenar, Symmar, or f3.5 CZ Jenna, to suit the subject.
90mm 6.8 Angulon or f8 Nikkor.
150 and/or 210 Fujinon.
65 Super Angulon.
Any but the 90 Nikkor fit with the camera closed.
The 135 Xenar, 90 Angulon, and 150 Fuji use the same tiny 40.5 mm filters, so they are first pick when traveling light.
All fits in a shoulder bag
A few Grafmatics.
Bogen tripod.

[gleaf]

Crown with standard 135mm Ektar
Focusing Loupe
Zoom Spot meter
Surveyors tripod adapted for a Reis 2 axis top
Sandwich cooler with holders
Focus dark cloth.
Notebook