Too Many Lenses - What Would You Keep?

[sepiareverb]

2, 7, 8.

Your milage may vary.

[onnect17]

Keep 1, 2, and 7. Buy a 150mm apo symmar.

[Leszek Vogt]

Sell everything and get 3 XL's. Seriously tho, why not wide, medium (portrait) and bit of a tele....that's what I'd do. You still may need a macro (?).

Les

[Bill_1856]

You can't be too rich or too thin, or have too many lenses.
The only downside is in keeping all those shutters working.

[BradS]

you don't have too many lenses...I'd say you have too few cameras!

[Sekundogenitur]

The best photographers always confined their equipment to the absolutely necessary.
Since I guess you belong to them I suggest to keep

1. Rodenstock Grandagon N 90mm
4. Rodenstock Sinaron S 135mm
7. Schneider APO Symmar S 210mm

Cheers, Mat

[Steven Tribe]

The best photographers always confined their equipment to the absolutely necessary. ....

Cheers, Mat

I cannot agree with this statement. It may be true that confining yourself to a single lens is a good idea for one session or project is likely to produce a good result.

Personally, I would describe you present range of lenses as very limited - they are modern lenses with similar characteristics. I realize that if you are using the graflex with cams, then there isn't much incentive to use "odd" focal lengths. I would keep a couple of these lenses and try out some older types that would give more variation in your "weaponry".

[Sekundogenitur]

I cannot agree with this statement. It may be true that confining yourself to a single lens is a good idea for one session or project is likely to produce a good result.

Please let me explain. Experienced people know what they will do and they know how. Often this will lead to a strict confimement in the equipment.
But there may be others who also know what to do and they know that they need a wider range of lenses. A large equipment is nor necessarily a beginners problem :-)
I only use two lenses (90 and 135) and do not have the impression to miss anything. In fact, 135 mm will cover 80 % of the photos taken.

Mat

[Professional]

So for 2XYmm FL, which one is mostly used say for portraits and some close-ups on 4x5?