How many lens do you take with you?

How many lens do you take with you?

  • One

    Votes: 145 28.5%

  • Two

    Votes: 181 35.6%

  • Three

    Votes: 113 22.2%

  • Four

    Votes: 36 7.1%

  • Five

    Votes: 9 1.8%

  • Six to ten

    Votes: 7 1.4%

  • Ten to 100

    Votes: 1 0.2%

  • A bunch

    Votes: 7 1.4%

  • Not sure

    Votes: 6 1.2%

  • What's is a lens?

    Votes: 4 0.8%
  • Total voters
    509
It seems regardless or what body I go out with, I generally have 2 lenses. If the Leica CL, the 40 and 90 and if the Bronica ETRS the 40 and 75 though, I recently picked up a 105 and may switch it out or my 50 for the 75 for it as I am finding recenly that I enjoy the wider angle for the 645 format.
 
When I first entered this thread, it said "Voters: 401. You may not vote on this poll" and I thought "that's a bit odd!" and wondered what it really meant - I am not allowed to vote on this poll - I am allowed to not vote on this poll - I might not vote on this poll (or then again, I might) ... then I realized I was not logged in.
So I voted "4" which is what I usually take with a RF for the day (that's what the question asked) - 28, 35, 50 and 75. For the night I take 2 - a fast 50 and a fast 35. I have a 90 but I don't often use it. For me, that's getting into SLR territory, which I also do.
 
I find it is always the 50mm. When I went from film to digital, it stayed the same.

If I go with more than 1 it would be 35, 50 & 90, whether it be the M3 or M8.

DSLR 24, 50 & 85
 
I've just started trying the following combination out ...

R2A + 2/35 Biogon

Nikon F3HP + 105/2.5 (and maybe a 180/2.8 in some cases)

The F3 stays mostly in the bag, but gives me a bit of extra reach if needed and the centre-weighted metering is so heavily centre-weighted I can use it as a spot meter more or less. The Biogon and 105/2.5 seem to have a compatible way of rendering, so they seem like a good pairing.
 
I almost always bring all four of my lenses (24/35/50/85) with me when I head out. They all fit nicely in my bag, a Lowepro Slingshot, and the bag isn't very obtrusive. Occasionally I'll just throw a battery and spare card in my pocket and trek out with one lens, but usually I want at least two and I don't currently have any other way to carry just one extra lens, so I bring all 4. If I'm working a limited space, I'll sometimes run through with the 35, then make another pass at a different focal length based on what I did with the 35. Otherwise, I'm usually patient enough to change lenses as needed.
 
Depends. A day in the city, only 1 or 2 (always the 50). An exploration of my area (where the car is involved) my bag and all lenses (I only have 4). 15, 35, 50 and 75... out of town trip yields the same. Now that I'm embarking on a film journey as well I may sometimes have 2 bodies, and I figure just 1 lens on each (again, unless car is close by).
 
The best all round kit I can put together is OM SLR based and not rangefinder ... an OM-1 body fitted with a 50mm f1.4 Zuiko along with the 85mm f2 and 35mm f2 in the Domke F5-XB or whatever it's called.

Three absolutely brilliant lenses ... along with probably the finest small SLR body ever made. Photography can be made far more complex than it needs to be by carrying anything more!
 
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One or Three

One or Three

On an M8:
2/35 ASPH
2.5/75 heliar
saving cash for an 15/18/21mm. I need more coverage and more DOF for landscapes than the 35 offers me right now.

That will give me a classic three lens kit:
20 or 24 or 28mm equiv wide angle.
50mm equiv fast normal.
100mm equiv short telephoto for portraits and landscape/architecture details

My most used lens is the 35. Quite often I just take the 35 out for a walk around the city. It does almost everything extremely well.

The 3 lens kit fits easily in a Billingham Digital Hadley, along with a polarising filter, spare batter, lens cloth, and a stack of memory cards. For weekend and longer trips I hang an Gorrilapod on the shoulder strap for support - it weighs nothing and gives decent support if used intelligently.
 
Three: 35 Cron V.4; 50/2.8 Elmar; and a 75 Lux V.2. In a Domke F803. I can leave the house with everthing and hit the streets of NYC all day without fatigue being a problem with my old Wetzlar M6.

Singularly the 35 Cron gets the most time outside, while the 75 Lux gets used indoors the most.

The 50/2.8 Elmar is remarkably small, lite and is there if I need it.

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Lately, Been walking around with an Nikon F2AS with a 85/1.4. The camera is a tank, and with the big glass, this rig weighs as much as my whole Leica kit, about five pounds with a CH-5 (Ever-ready style case).

Calzone
 
When I traveled to japan for six weeks, I mainly used a Canon P with a Canon 35mm/1.8 plus a Bessa L with a CV 25mm/4. I hardly used the Canon 50/1.2 or the Rolleiflex 2.8D. I had two kids in strollers to watch all the time.
 
The best I have been able to get it down to one M camera with 35,50,90.

One time a did a Rollie with 40 mm fixed. In college I had a Waltz Envoy with 50 2.0Nikkor fixed. Both drove me crazy.


So bad that when I graduated, I got a Pentax Spotmatic, 50 1.4 28,35,85.,135,200 all at the same time from Altman Camera in Chicago. I called up and Selwyn Schwartz took the order. I illegally parked on Wabash and just ran in to pick it all up. Better than Christmas.
 
Two. Used to be 50 DR 'cron and Nikkor 13.5cm. But now that Big Bertha is here, the 13.5cm is kicked to the curb and the 90 Summicron is snuggled up tight below the M3 and DR 'cron. eh...Forgot about the IIIf and Elmar collapsed in the other side of the divider--I guess three.
 
Typically 2. Usually a 35 on the camera, and a 50 in the bag (Domke 5xb).

More recently I've had the tiny CV21 in there as well, but I almost forget about it until I stumble on something that really requires it.
 
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