How many LF lenses do you own?

[Willie Jan]

i only have two....

150 apo sironar-n F5.6
300 apo ronar F9

I would like a 90 or 75mm lens, but do not know yet which one....

 

[jeanba3000]

(set of drilled pinholes with 10 different diameters for different focal lengths, bought in 1999)

90 Super Angulon mono-coated, Synchro Compur 00, for my 4x5", summer 2006
150 Sironar N MC, Copal 0, for my 4x5", 2000
150 Fujinon W mono-coated, Seiko 0, for my 4x5", summer 2006
210 Industar M51, barrel, for my 4x5", june 2007
240 Fujinon A, Copal 0, for my 4x5" & 8x10", july 2007
300 Fujinon C, copal 1, for my 4x5" & 8x10", 2006
480 Apo Ronar, barrel, july 2007, for my 8x10"
600 Apo Ronar, Compound, for my 8x10", august 1st 2007

(eBay is the most of my hunting ground for bargains...)

Dreaming of a Super Angulon 65 or 75 mm for 4x5" and one day a Super Angulon 165 mm my 8x10"... (must win the national lottery)

 

[Dave_B]

how many lenses?

66 with two more on order for three formats (2x3, 4x5 and 8x10). I have a serious problem....
Cheers,
Dave B.





Schn-SAXL 47 5.6 0 166 67

Nikon-SW 65 4 0 170 67

Schn-SAXL 72 5.6 0 226 95

Nikon-SW 75 4.5 0 200 67

Roden-GN 90 6.8 0 221 67

Nikon-SW 90 8 0 235 67

Nikon-SW 90 4.5 0 235 82

Schneider-SA 90 8 0 216 67

Schneider A 90 6.8 0 160 40.5

Schn-SAXL 90 5.6 0 259 95

Nikkor-W 100 5.6 0 153 40

Graflex-Triop 103 4.5 0 29

Nikon-W 105 5.6 0 155 52

Nikon-M 105 3.5 0 110 40

Ica-Litonar 120 6.8 0 134 28

Nikon-SW 120 8 0 312 77

Nikon-AM 120 5.6 0 250 52

Schneider-AS 120 5.6 0 179 49

Schneider-SA 121 8 0 288 77

Kodak Ektar 127 4.7 0 160 36

Nikon-W 135 5.6 0 200 52

Schneider-S 150/265 5.6 0 210 49

Schneider-AS 150 5.6 0 220 58

Nikon-W 150 5.6 0 210 52

Nikon-SW 150 8.0 1 400 95

Fuji-W 150 5.6 0 224 52

Schn G-Clar 150 9 1 189 35.5

Schneider-X 150 4.5 1 180 40.5

Roden-GN 155 6.8 1 382 105

Schneider-A 165 6.8 B 300 58

Roden-SN 180 5.6 1 252 58

Nikon-W 180 5.6 1 253 67

Kodak-Ektar 190 4.5 Ilex-4 194 55

Nikon-M 200 8 1 210 52

Schneider-SS 210 5.6 1 294 77

Schn ApoS 210 5.6 1 305 77

Nikon-W (2) 210 5.6 1 295 67

Schn G-Clar 210 9 B 260 49

Roden-S 210 5.6 1 266 58

Nikkor–AM 210 5.6 1 400 67

Fuji-W 210 5.6 1 352 58

Nikon-W 240 5.6 3 336 82

Calumet-SII 240 5.6 3 337 86

Schn G-Clar 240 9 1 298 52

Schn G-Clar 240 9 B 319 46

Schneider-TA 270 5.5 1 178 58

Nikon-Tele 270 6.3 1 160 67

Schn G-Clar 270 9 1 335 58

Nikon-M 300 9 1 325 52

Nikon-W 300 5.6 3 420 95

Schn G-Clar 305 9 B 381 67

Schn G-Clar 355 9 3 444 77

Nikon-W 360 6.5 3 494 95

Nikon-T ED 360 8 1 210 67

Schneider-TX 360 5.5 1 230 67

Nikon-M 450 9 3 440 67

Goerz RDA 450 11 B 450 62

Nikon-T ED 500 11 1 210 67

Nikon-TED(2) 600 9 3 310 95

Nikon-T ED 720 16 1 210 67

Nikkor Apo 760 11 B 590 95

Nikon-TED(2) 800 12 3 310 95

Nikon-T ED 1200 18 3 310 95

 

[removed account4]

i also have a lens called laverne
and an ilex seminat

 

[Chris Breitenstein]

I have 1. A Gundlache triple convertible that never leaves 12.5 inches. I would really like to replace it with something that has more covering power, but I can't justify it at the moment.

Yours;

 

[MenacingTourist]

6 total.
1 that I use 95% of the time.

 

[Bandicoot]

Far more than I need... slightly fewer than I want!

At least I have the excuse of using several formats.

On Century Graphic Boards (Some of these also for use on my wooden 4x5 / 5x7 field camera when I finish restoring it):
65mm f8 Schneider Super-Angulon
90mm f6.8 Schneider Angulon
100mm f5.6 Schneider Symmar-S
150mm f5.6 Schneider Symmar-S
180mm f5.5 Schneider Tele-Xenar
240mm f5.5 Schneider Tele-Xenar

On Arca-Swiss Boards These get used variously on 6x9, 4x5, 5x7 (/13x18/half-plate) & 10x8 Arcas, and with 6x12 & 6x17 rollfilm backs:
38mm f4 Schneider Super-Angulon XL
47mm f5.6 Schneider Super-Angulon MC (I would love to replace this with an XL and then put this one into one of the Century boards - at the moment it gets switched back and forth)
65mm f5.6 Schneider Super-Angulon
65mm f8 Schneider Super-Angulon (another one, much smaller and lighter than the f5.6)
75mm f6.8 Rodenstock Grandagon
90mm f8 Schneider Super-Angulon
100mm f5.6 Rodenstock Sironar - N (for 6x9, but also covers 6x12)
120mm f6.8 Schneider Angulon
150mm f4.5 Schneider Xenar (came with a camera and is too nice not to keep)
150mm f5.6 Schneider Symmar-S (another one)
150mm f5.6 Schneider Symmar (converts to 265mm)
159mm f12.5 Wollensack Anastigmat W.A. (extreme WA for 10x8)
210mm f5.6 Schneider Symmar (converts to 370mm)
240mm f9 Schneider G-Claron
270mm f5.5 Schneider Tele-Xenar (a long lens to use on the 6x9 monorails, which don't have the bellows otherwise)
300mm f5.6 Schneider Symmar (converts to 500mm)
420mm f9 Schneider Repro Claron

On Arca Boards, used for studio still-life and for macro:
35mm f4 Rodenstock Eurygon
75mm f4.5 Tomioka Tominon - Reverse Tessar
127mm f4.7 Rodenstock Ysaron (I like this much under-valued lens very much)
135mm f4.5 Tomioka Tominon - Tessar
150mm f9 Rodenstock Apo Ronar (another favourite)
180mm f5.6 Tomioka Tominon - Tessar (I don't know much about this apparently somewhat unusual lens, but it is nice on 6x12)
240mm f9 Schneider G-Claron (the same one as above, used as a wide on the 10x8, and in the studio for still-life)
420mm f9 Schneider Repro Claron (the same one as above, used as a long on the 8x10 [and smaller] and in the studio for still-life)

On boards for my Polaroid MP-3 copy/macro camera:
17mm f4 Tomioka Tominon - Symmetrical - 10-20x mag. on 4x5
35mm f4 Rodenstock Eurygon (another one) - 2-10x mag. on 4x5
50mm f4.5 Tomioka Tominon - 6 Element Symmetrical Triplet - 2-5x mag. on 4x5
75mm f4.5 Tomioka Tominon - Reverse Tessar (another one) - up to 4x mag. on 4x5
105mm f4.5 Tomioka Tominon - Tessar - up to 1.5x mag. on 4x5
127mm f4.7 Rodenstock Ysaron - Modified Tessar (another one) - up to 1:1 on 4x5
135mm f4.5 Tomioka Tominon - Tessar (another one) - up to 1:3 on 4x5

Odds and Ends:
75mm f1.9 Ilex Oscillo-Paragon
101mm f4.5 Kodak Ektar
105mm f3.5 Schneider Xenar (2)
128mm f6.8 Dr. Krugener Preminar
203mm f7.7 Kodak Ektar

Plus some cells and a couple of barrel lenses, sometimes used when demonstrating the building of a camera obscura to painters, might get more use if I ever get a Packard shutter or make up a suitable mount to put them on my miniature Speed Graphic.

As for the ones I still want... a 58 SA XL, 110 SS XL, a Macro-Symmar or Sironar, a longer tele lens to take into the field, something longer than my 420 to use on the 10x8, maybe an Imagon or similar. Probably some more if I think about it for long enough... Some of the above I could/should sell if I replaced them with any of these wish-list lenses.

Most of these do get used a fair amount, apart from the oddments.



Peter

 

[Neanderman]

Far more than I need... slightly fewer than I want!

Thanks, guys! Between Peter and Dave B, now I don't fell nearly as bad as I did! Shoot, I've got more than 6, but less than a dozen!

Ed

 

[Ole]

I have - - - many.

But counting the various casket sets and suchlike as one each, I have less than some.

Phew...

 

[Mark Sawyer]

This is my lens cabinet, which holds about half of my lf lenses. I'd guess I have around a hundred lenses, though a third of them would probably fall in the "why don't you throw it against a brick wall and put it out of its misery?" category.

There are around two dozen I keep going back to. A few are in that previously-mentioned category...

 

[Ian Grant]

These questions do make you think;

65m f8 Super Angulon
75m f8 Super Angulon
90m f5.6 Super Angulon
90m f6.8 Angulon
90mm f6.8 Grandagon
100mm f4.5 Trinar
135mm f3.5 Tessar
150mm f5.6 Sironar
150mm f5.6 Sironar N
150mm f4.5 Tessar
210mm f5.6 Symmar
300mm Nikon M f9
12" f6.8 Dagor

150mm f9 Hexanon
210mm f9 Hexanon
300mm f9 Heaxanon

Various other brass lenses.

 

[Bandicoot]

This is my lens cabinet...

Doh, Mark you just made me drool all over my keyboard.

I do like the way you are storing those lenses - gives me an idea...


Peter

 

[sanking]

For 5X7
105 Fujinon SWD
125 Fujinon SWD
180 Fujinon-A
210 G-Claron
240 Fujinon-A
300 Nikkor-M
450 Nikkor-M
600 Fujinon-C

For ULF
Same 450 Nikkor-M and Fujinon-C
210 Schneider SSXL
240 Computar
270 Computar
305 Computar
355 Symmar Convertible
550 Schneider XXL
30" Red Dot Artar

Most used on 5X7 are the Fujinon SWD 125mm and the Fujinon 240A.

In ULF most used is the 305 Computar and the 550 Schneider XXL.

35mm and medum format not included in the list. In these categories I have a fairly wide range of lenses for the Kiev/Pentacon-6 cameras, as well as a few for the Pentax 645 and Mamiya 711. But this is small change compared to the big boys for ULF.

I am not a collector but a dedicated user so I am always evaluating what I have in terms of the needs of my work. ULF is fairly stable in this regard, but medium format is fairly dynamic in terms of sell and buy.


Sandy King

 

[Dan Fromm]

Well, I don't have as many lenses as Mark. Or time to type my inventory, small though it is. Focal lengths in hand for formats larger than 24x36 are 38, 44, 47, 58, 65, 76, 80, 95, 100, 101, 105, 120, 127, 130, 135, 138, 150, 152, 160, 180, 203, 210, 240, 258, 266, 300, 305, 360, 420, 450, 480. Multiples at a number of focal lengths. Macro lenses that will cover large formats are 18, 25, 40, 50, 63, 72, 100, again with multiples and I've probably forgot a few.

I've pretty much stopped acquiring lenses. I think I can live with the gaps between the focal lengths I have. And I have way too many normal lenses for 2x3, a few of them lovely ex-Soviet artifacts that are completely unusable.

Another impediment to acquisition is that there's a limit to how many I can carry with me when I go a-shootin'. Ole Tjugen, who's been silent in this thead for a while, has reporting having many, many lenses in the same focal length. I went through a phase like that, held shootouts, ... What I learned is that as I shoot 'em good lenses are all nearly enough equivalent. The only problem has been finding good ones that I can afford ...

I have a neighbor who's a serious collector of Zeiss gear. He has a display case with more than a dozen Contaxes, each with a 50/1.5 Sonnar. Also more lenses for formats larger than 24x36 than I can imagine, including a few that I seriously covet. Namely and to wit, 35/4.5 Apo Grandy, 45 Biogon, 53 Biogon, a heap of 75s, a variety of longer f/6.3 Tessars, huge triplets, Super Angulons in many sizes, ... Yes he has 38 Biogons, but so do I. When I need that kind of inspiration I go over and look at his heaps. They're sooo much bigger than mine.

Ian, on a more serious note, I take it your Hexanons are GRIIs. I gave away my 150 because it was a bit too flary, keep thinking about retiring my 210, which is a very fine lens, in favor of a 210/7.7 Dagor type that's smaller, contrastier, and not quite as sharp wider than f/16. How well do your Hexanons shoot?

 

[imazursky]

I have 4
90mm Super angulon
135mm graflex 4.7 (Almost as good as modern lenses)
180mm Nikkor m
210mm Schneider Symmar S MC
I now mostly use the 90 and 210 but the 135 is begging to be taken out again.

 

[BlueLemon]

I have recently been smitten by the bug - Gandolfinitis (excuse my french Emil ;-)

So i have bought a few lenses this month - Umpfff ;-)

For portraits these Sexy Six:
Rodenstock Imagon 200 Tiefenbildner
Ilex Photoplasticca Soft 10,5 inch/5.0
Jamin Darlot Petzval 11,5 inch/3.75
Kodak 305 Portrait Soft
Voigtländer 360/4.5 Heliar
Wollensak Verito Soft Diffused 14.5inch/4.0

These will all be mounted on Sinar boards this week - here I go

Then i have also these - both newly bought and some i have had over time - various quality - maybe to match my photography results ;-)

Schneider 90/6.8 Angulon
Schneider 120/6.8 Angulon
Dallmeyer 135/4.5 Serrac
Kodak 203/7.7 Ektar
Rodenstock 240/9.0 Apo Ronar
Meopta 210/4.5 Belar
Schneider 150/4.5 Xenar
Aldis 145/4.5 Anastigmat
Bausch & Lomb 5x7 serie 1C
Dallmeyer 165/8.0 Unknown
Officine Galileo 250/4.5 Brevetto
Schneider 360/? Symmar
Rodenstock 360/9.0 Apo Ronar
Carl Zeiss 450/9.0 Apo Tessar
Carl Zeiss 210/6.3 Tessar
Meopta 135/6.8 Largor
Rodenstock 105/4.5 Trinar
Rodenstock 360/6.8 DB Sinaron
Sinar 240/5.6 Sinaron S
Schneider 240/5.6 Symmar
Casket set ?
Unknown brass lens - barrel ?

ahhhh i forgot the lenses in Unicum shutters - but no worries

I have lost count - but no more hardware comes through my door before i have tried all of them..... Promise ;-)

Claus Stensgaard

 

[2F/2F]

90mm f/4.5, 121mm f/8, 210mm f/5.6, 240mm f/5.6, 360mm f/6.8, all in DB mount (which is why I could afford them!)

540mm f/11 Copying Ektanon barrel lens.

127mm f/4.7 Ektar (on Graphic board)

180mm f/5.5 Tele-Xenar (on Graphic board)

My most commonly used DB lenses are the 360 and the 121.

Next lens is likely a Fujinon-W 180mm 5.6, primarily intended for my 5x7 field camera (and will be a "normal" lens with lots of movement on 4x5 as far as horizontal AOV goes). After that, probably a 300 convertible. These lenses might sound redundant, but I want them in their own shutters specifically for this one field camera, for which I want a two lens kit.

 

[sun of sand]

90mm f4.5 Grandagon
150mm f5.6 Sironar-N
Cooke 158mm -barrel
210mm F9 JML (Goodkin-Astro) -barrel
Meniscus achromat from Brownie postcard 2C
Ditto from Horizontal 3A Buster Brown -never use as the Brownie is much sharper centrally and much more crazy away from center


Rather have a 75 instead of 90mm
I use the Cooke most often

 

[Alan Davenport]

My list is pretty short.

For the 5x7
Schneider Super Angulon - 8/120 mm
Schneider Angulon - 6.8/16.5 cm - Most used and my favorite!!

For the 8x10
Kodak Wide Field Ektar - 6.3/10 in - Most used
B&L Protar VII - 12/19/23.5 in

All of my work is contact printed with either Azo or Palladium toned Kallitype (Thanks Sandy for putting me on to this!).

 

[BlueLemon]

Forgot to mention these

ILEX PARAGON ANASTIGMAT F:4.5 165mm
Benoist Berthiot Hypergonar H Chretien 16mm Anamorphic (this lens will be fun to use)

 

[Erik L]

My fairly pedestrian list includes:
Rodenstock 90mm 6.8 Grandagon
Nikor 150mm 5.6 W
Schneider 210 9 G Claron
Fuji 300mm 5.6 W
Goerz 19 inch (480mm) Red Dot Artar
Goerz 24 inch (600mm) Red Dot Artar
Used on cameras from 4x5, 8x10, and 11x14
Covers all my needs, but not wants
Erik

 

[JLP]

For 4x5, 5x7 and 8x10

90mm 6.8 Grandagon
111mm 8 WA Dagor
120mm 6.8 Angulon
120mm 8 Nikon SW
150mm 5.6 Apo Sironar (My first)
150/247 4.8/10 Ilex Acuton
158mm 6.5 VIIb Cooke (In the mail)
159mm 9.5 WA Wollensak
203mm 2.9 Dallmeyer Pentac
210mm 3.5 Heliar
210mm 5.6 Fuji W
210mm 5.6 Fuji NW
210mm 9 G-Claron
210mm 6.8 Dagor
215/355 4.8/10 Ilex Acuton
8 3/4 4 Wollensak Verito
10" 6 Wollensak Veritar
10" Conley Portrait Series A
11.1" 8 TTH RR
240 9 G-Claron (Dagor)
240 9 Docter Germinar
240 5.6 Schulze & Billerbech
300 4.5 Schneider Xenar
305 6.8 Golden Dagor
305 9 G-Claron
305 6.3 Ilex Calumet Caltar
305 4.8 Kodak Portrait
14" Wollensak Portrait series II
360 6.3 Fuji
375 6.3 Ilex Calumet Caltar
480 11 Red Dot Artar
508 7 Ilex Calumet Caltar

That should be enough for a while.

jan

 

[katabatic]

Very few and humble, given this crowd:

90mm f/8 Caltar (a Rodenstock Geronar low-budget 4 element Tessar-looking thing). Not half as bad as my friends (and I) feared it would be. Better image quality than my alternative wide angle, anyway (a 28mm Nikkor on 35mm). Forget about much in the way of swings and tilts, but it's small and light.

150mm f/5.6 Nikkor. My favorite lens, and i use it the most. A beauty.

210mm f/6.8 Caltar (another Geronar, this time a 3-element). Adequate, but i usually find a way to use the Nikkor instead.