Poll: How many lenses in your 4x5 field kit?

[Ron Marshall]

How many lenses do you normally take when you shoot with your 4x5?

My kit is usually four: 90-135-200-300, sometimes 55-90-135-200.

[Ash]

One

I have a 150mm on the Razzle, a 180mm on the Korona, and a 10inch barrel on the stripped Speed-Graphic. I only ever really use the Razzle, but the other two are there if I want something different

[Walter Calahan]

Why do you need to know all this stuff?

My LF lens count is way to high, and if I tell you, my wife will kill me.

Just counting in my head the number of 4x5 lenses, it is over 15, which at any given time can go into the field, since I never shoot in a studio. Then there's the 8x10 kit. I've never actually taken all the lenses into the field at once, but I do have a 3-wheeled jogging stroller to push all this crap around, so I can if I go temporarily insane.

[darr]

I have Rodenstocks: 65, 90, 120 macro, 135, 180; Docter 240, & Cooke 229 (PS945).
I only seem to use the Docter, Cooke and macro -- I keep telling myself to let go of the excess, but I am too lazy to sell.

[Preston]

I carry four lenses for my 4x5...

135 and 180 Fujinon
90 and 300 Nikkor

I'd like to get 210 someday.

-PB

[Richard M. Coda]

Since I always carry the 4x5 Field (with additional long bellows) AND the 8x10 F Metric (Arcas both) I usually carry all my lenses, which are:

Nikon 120 Macro
Fuji 75, 150, 210, 300A, 450

I have a 105 that I only used once and is sitting in my darkroom somewhere.

[Ralph Barker]

Too many, or not enough - depending on how I feel that day.

[Glenn Thoreson]

You don't honestly expect me to count all those things, do you? Not enough fingers and toes. What purpose does this serve anyhoo?

[Ole Tjugen]

Last time I was out with a 4x5" camera it was the Speed Graphic. And since that was the camera I used, I had several pockets full of assorted lenses: A 3 1/4" WA rectilinear, a 12cm WW Aristostigmat, a 135mm Zeiss Tessar (coated, the only one), a 150mm Zeiss Doppel-Amatar, a 18cm Goertz Dagor, one casket set with three front and two rear cells for a total of 8 focal lengths, and a complete Vade Mecum set with 7 cells and WA spacers - 36length/coverage combinations of which not all can be used on a Speed Graphic. So that's either 7 or 49...

If I yse "the other camera", the one without a focal plane shutter, the pack is more modest: 65mm, 90mm, 120mm, 135mm, 150mm, 165mm, 210mm, 240mm, 355mm. And maybe a second 90mm, or a 240mm or maybe a 300mm, depending on space, weight, subject and distance from the car/home.

[Andrew O'Neill]

10 lenses...because I always shoot 4x5 and 8x10 when I go out. 8x10 camera with 4x5 reducer. I get my friend John to carry them for me.