Camera serves, lens, combo serves your image goals. Ponder and ask yourself what your image goals are then what lens focal length and rendering will meet these image goals. There is no single lens that can meet all image goals and image making needs.
Keep in mind any view camera is nothing more than a light tight box that is flexi in the center.
Landscape image making can involve any lens focal length from ultra wide to telephoto depending your what you're trying to achieve as the done image. As for camera movements, that also depends on image goals. Typically landscape images usually need modest camera movements compared to images like studio table top which can be extremely demanding on lens, camera, lighting and more.
It would be wise to sort out image goals, lenses needed to achieve this with the camera choice being last on this list as discovering the camera of choice has great difficult accommodating the lens(es) needed to achieve the image goals.
Know 8x10 view camera alone is not an image making panacea, it has a long list of difficulties and challenges unlike other film cameras and image making methods-process.
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