Single Lens Photographers?

[Marco]

We (I photograph with my wife Cristina) shoot 8x10" and we use only one lens, a 300mm.

Ciao!!


Marco

[Drew Wiley]

For about ten years I only used a 210 Symmar on a 4x5 Sinar. I think it was the
happiest time ever for me in photography. So simple, and I got a lot of great shots.
Just left the lens on the camera. Then did essentially the same thing for awhile with
a 240 Fujinon. That was about twenty years ago. Nowadays I typically use a trio of
lenses, mostly with 8X10, but sometimes with 4X5, and sometimes take a fourth lens.

[Bill_1856]

Roman Loranc, for quite some time,on his 4x5 he used only a Nikon 210,
seems to have worked well for him.

Boy,, does it ever!

[Armin Seeholzer]

My first 3-4 years I only worked with a 135 mm Rodenstock N and I was many times to long so I got a 2. after 4 years!
And now I have all lenses I ever dreamed of!
Cheers Armin

[Leonard Metcalf]

I had 150 mm Nikkor W on a Linhof Technica III which I used as my bushwalking 4x5 for many years. Now I regret selling it as it was such a joy to use. And looking back I still love the images I took with it. Latter I was using a 135mm Caltar N on a Fotman 45PS. I personally found this combination a bit to wide for my personal tastes. In my humble opinion it is not the subjects but the taste and style of the photographer that really counts the most when choosing a lens. I think there is a lot to be said for the 'One camera- one lens - one film..." combination.

Enjoy Len

[Andrew Tymon]

British Photographer John Blakemore has only ever used a 180 Symmar-S on his Mpp. He used it for both his landscape and still life work. In the early 90's he was still using an old weston light meter too!

[Jim Galli]

I've been a single lens user for most of my life. While I have literally hundreds of LF lenses, I'm legally blind in my left eye. My lens is my right eye. The glass I cobble on the front is to make the picture look like what my lens saw.

[robert fallis]

I have a russian Industra lens 300 mm f4.5-f64. no shutter,(expose with lens cap, ) which I use with a half plate monorail that I built for it, mainly for close up, But it's glued on a graphix lens board, so I can use it on my 4x5 as well

bob

[Jan Nieuwenhuysen]

Interesting question.
I use one 4x5 monorail with a 150 mm lens for all of my work. Early this year I bought a 4x5 Pacemaker Speed Graphic with a 135 mm lens which I use as my sketch book since.
I used to work on Scala, I now use Acros which I reverse myself.
Although the slide is final, it does not necessarily constitute a finished work per se.
I also translate in ink on paper.

[jimi-the-jive]

crown graphic with a 90mm raptar, i have a nikkor 180mm 5.6 but i never use it, i mainly shoot Architecture