Favorite Lens

[HughC]

If you had to pick just one lens for your landscape photography, what would it be.
Or what is your favorite and most used lens for landscape and why.

[Greg]

Which format?

[HughC]

Sorry, 4x5

[rfesk]

You mean 4x5 I assume.

Rodenstock Sironar -N 135/5.6. I have two - one is folded up in my Busch Pressman and another on a Graflex lensboard
for use with other 4x5's.

It's a versatile focal length - approximately the same horizontal coverage as a 40mm lens on a 35mm camera.
I use it for landscapes, for architecture and small groups of people.

[Renato Tonelli]

You mean 4x5 I assume.

Rodenstock Sironar -N 135/5.6. I have two - one is folded up in my Busch Pressman and another on a Graflex lensboard
for use with other 4x5's.

It's a versatile focal length - approximately the same horizontal coverage as a 40mm lens on a 35mm camera.
I use it for landscapes, for architecture and small groups of people.

Same here (and same lens) and for the same reasons. It stays on the the folded Linhof Tech. camera, ready to go.
For when I need a longer focal lenght, I carry a Schneider G-Claron 240mm lens.

[Peter De Smidt]

110 Super Symmar XL.

[Tin Can]

Love the one you're with

[Havoc]

I think I use the CM-W 125/5.6 most for "landscape". Most versatile for me. I'd love to go wider, but we don't have landscapes that are so open you can use wider without having crap in the frame somewhere. In cities I have to go wider because everything is so cramped.

[Roberto Nania]

I like the 150mm for landscape and for portrait work; I like its neutral prospective. If I have to go for one lens only, I'd go for it without doubt.
I use a Symmar-S and a recently purchased Sironar-N.
On small format, my go-to lens is instead the 35mm.

[John Layton]

My single "go to" for 4x5 has been a 135 (Sironar-N) for years and years...but I think it just might be supplanted by the 150 - of which I currently own two: a G-Claron and an Apo-Symmar-L. But I still cannot deny the sheer versatility of the 135 for the 4x5 format.