What's in your 4x5 Lens kit?

[Greg]

35mm f/4.5 FISH-EYE TAKUMAR. Finally adapted it to shoot with my 4x5.
https://www.largeformatphotography.i...highlight=fish

65mm f/4 Nikkor-SW. Right now I use step up rings to mount a 77mm FUJI CENTER FILTER GX617 90mm ND-2X on it. Works but I really need to get a correctly fitting central ND filter for this lens. Over the past few years I have been using this optic less and less so most probably will continue on using the FUJI filter with step up rings.

90mm f/5.6 Schneider Super-Angulon XL with IVa central ND. Yes this lens is huge but it offers me an extreme amount of rise for architectural photography. For landscape photography I use a wee bit smaller 90mm f/4.5 Nikkor-SW

180mm f/5.6 Fujinon W. Least used lens. It replaced a 210mm.

250mm f/6.7 Fujinon-W. Probably my most used lens. It replaced a 240mm Dagor with a very old, worn out and unreliable Compur shutter.

330mm f//6.8 IA Raptar. Smallish lens but a real performer. If I Leave home my 600mm Fujinon, this lens is convertible and becomes either a 508mm or 647mm lens.

600mm f/12 Fujinon T. Only carry this lens if I have plans to use it. Since it covers the whole plate format, it has plenty of movements.

I also have two lenses from 2 vintage folding cameras. They both project images to cover the 4x5 format, but sharpness falls off in the corners. When I have used these 2 optics, the negatives were used for Lith printing.

Present cameras are either a classic Sinar Norma or a Sinar 4x5 X depending on what I am shooting.

[Salmo22]

Nikkor SW 75/4.5
Nikkor SW 90/8
Nikkor SW 120/8
Fujinon A 180/9
Fujinon A 240/9
Nikkor M 300/9

Updated to reflect some minor change and addition.

Schneider SA 58/5.6 XL
Nikkor SW 75/4.5
Nikkor SW 90/8
Nikkor SW 120/8
Nikkor W 180/5.6
Fujinon A 240/9
Nikkor M 300/9

The 60mm focal length differences between the majority of these lenses fits my vision nicely. When photographing the "grand" Arizona landscapes, both the Nikkor SW 75/4.5 and Schneider SA 58/5.6 XL stay home. However, when photographing architecture, ruins, or more intimate landscape scenes, I'll include the Nikkor SW 75/4.5 and Schneider SA 58/5.6 XL to cover my bases.

[rfesk]

Nikon 90/8
Rodenstock Sironar-N 135/5.6
Fujinon 240/9

Just added: Rodenstock 75/4.5 (thanks Steve Goldstein!) that I will be carrying when the 90 won't do.

Have others from 65mm through 305mm but rarely use them for 4x5

To update from my previous post:
I normally carry only three lenses in my LF case but can add others if needed. I am using a Toyo Original Field with either a 4x5 back or a 5x7 back.

For 4x5: Nikon 90/8
Rodenstock Sironar-N 135/5.6
Kodak Ektar 203/7.7

For 5x7: Kodak Ektar Wide Field 135/6.3
Rodenstock Sironar-N 180/5.6
Rodenstock Apo-Ronar 300/9

[John Layton]

For 4x5 lightweight/compact (Gowland Pocket View camera) "grab and go" kit: just the camera with either a 135mm Sironar-N, or a 150mm Apo Symmar-L. Camera w/lens on Feisol CF tripod carried on shoulder, 7 film holders/spot-meter/filters/t-shirt dark cloth, 4x close up glasses, carried in small shoulder bag.

For more versatility...add to the above a separate (2nd) small shoulder bag with a 90mm f/6.8 Grandagon-N, and 210mm Sironar-N.

For a "full" 4x5 kit (Layton L-45A camera): 90 Grandagon or 110 XL, 135 Sironar-N or 150 Apo Symmar-L, 210mm Apo Sironar-S, 305 G-Claron. Carried in RTP P-3 backpack w/meter, filters, dark cloth, 12 film holders, close up glasses plus loupe, and Gitzo CF tripod.

Someday I would like to add: 58 or 65mm (Schneider), 450mm (Fuji-C or Nikkor-M). But no biggie if this never happens.

[maltfalc]

18" f/3.8(ish) general scientific corp.
305mm f/9 rodenstock apo-copygon
6" f/2.5 buhl optical
7" f/3.5 buhl optical
8" f/3.9 buhl optical
135mm f/4.7 graflex optar
150mm f/5.6 schneider-kreuznach componon
210mm f/5.6 schneider-kreuznach comparon
140mm(ish) rapid rectilinear bausch & lomb
300mm f/4.5 industar-37
75mm f/1.9 ilex oscillo-paragon

[darr]

Nikkor SW 90/4.5
Nikkor W 150/5.6
Nikkor M 300/9.0

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My Pano kit is a Cambo Wide 650 (Schneider SA 65/5.6)
One lens, 4x5 film (cropped to 6x12 in post), and a digital back for shooting color.
This is a heavier kit than my traditional 4x5, but I love it.

[Havoc]

I got around:
- Fujinon SWD 75
- Fujinon SWD 90
- Fujinon CM-W 125
- Fujinon CM-W 180
- Fujinon CM-W 250
- Fujinon T 300
- Schneider SA 90/8

All with a 67mm filter thread except the SWD 90. The one going out always is the 125mm. Depending on what I expect to find the 90mm or the 75mm. Of the long ones it is the 250mm that goes out most. The 180mm just isn't different enough from the 250mm or 125mm and the 300mm I just don't like much. Too dim and not enough different from the 250mm.

I do have a pinhole camera (0.3mm hole) that can also take a Fujinon NW 125mm as hyperfocal. One day I will get around to make a viewfinder for that camera and use it more than once a year.

[aphcl84]

Green ring Sinaron Digital 55mm f/4.5, AKA an Apo Grandagon in disguise
Nikkor-SW 75mm f/4.5
Grandagon-N 90mm f/4.5
Grandagon-N 115mm f/6.3
Topcor LF 150mm f/5.6
Symmar-S 210mm f/5.6
Apo-Ronar MC 300mm f/9
Apo-Ronar 420mm f9
Red Dot Artar 610mm f/11

Mostly used for landscapes.