Frank Petronio
Well-known
I couldn't recall if it was 249 or 251, I'd check the hashmarks I made on my leg but the scar tissue grew together.
Phil_F_NM
Camera hacker
I've handled a few to five thousand lenses at least.
The number of lenses I've owned is a finite number that is pretty dang high.
Pentax M42 30?
Pentax K 8
Contax SLR 4
Nikon F about 35
Canon EOS 6
Konica AR 2
Fujica M42 5
Leica M 9
Leica S 18-20
Mamiya 3
Bronica S 5
Fuji G690 3
Large format 8
I'm sure I missed a few.
Phil Forrest
The number of lenses I've owned is a finite number that is pretty dang high.
Pentax M42 30?
Pentax K 8
Contax SLR 4
Nikon F about 35
Canon EOS 6
Konica AR 2
Fujica M42 5
Leica M 9
Leica S 18-20
Mamiya 3
Bronica S 5
Fuji G690 3
Large format 8
I'm sure I missed a few.
Phil Forrest
Murchu
Well-known
From my tally, 19 different interchangeable lenses for 3 different systems that have seen 10 different camera bodies. Also 8 different fixed lens cameras. Jeez thats a lot of stuff..
rwintle
Scientist by day
Does fondling in camera stores count? 
Currently own and use six SLR lenses, plus the usual bunch of fixed-lens cameras (at present, seven that work reliably, plus one digital P&S I hardly ever use any more). And I borrowed a rather nice Rokinon 35/1.4 not long ago.
UPDATE - oh, I forgot - two Instamatics, one horrid plastic mail-order P&S (or PoS, your choice), and two SLR lenses for the old Pentax MZ-50.
Plus the usual suite of iPod and phone cameras, I suppose.
Currently own and use six SLR lenses, plus the usual bunch of fixed-lens cameras (at present, seven that work reliably, plus one digital P&S I hardly ever use any more). And I borrowed a rather nice Rokinon 35/1.4 not long ago.
UPDATE - oh, I forgot - two Instamatics, one horrid plastic mail-order P&S (or PoS, your choice), and two SLR lenses for the old Pentax MZ-50.
Plus the usual suite of iPod and phone cameras, I suppose.
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jmc56
Member
This is a scary question in some ways. I answered 300-400. The reason in part is that was always a gear head, provided I could pay for it. I'm still a very active shooter at 70, but I've been a collector of things, not always valuable, and I've always used multiple lenses simultaneously.
I probably own 100 of the relatively simple Kodak and other folding cameras, all have difference lenses and shutters. I own a variety of bellows, self-contained etc. cameras on the higher end of 100 years of so back. My earliest large camera is 1903 and I have some that go back to 1880. I like wooden cameras. I have brass lenses that go back to the 1850s. It's embarrassing.
I collect old plate cameras (I try to use all of the cameras at least once, sometimes more) in sizes from 4.5x6 to 6x9 to 9x12, Recomar, Bergheil, Maximar, etc. IN all about 25, each with different lenses and shutters. At least 35 view and press camera lenses in shutter.
Two View Cameras (in use, sort of) with probably a dozen lenses. Kodak Retinas, all the lenses available depending on body ID, plus I own the reflex version.
In digital, my primary worker are Canons, crop or not, but I have lenses from 8 mm (2, one russian, one not) reach out as far as 500, including three 70-300s, 55x210, My favorite digital in some instance is an MP-9p which allows me to use all the vitange and modern lenses abailable. Soviet screw mounts, various bayonet mounts, there are probably at least a dozen different versions of the Summicron in screw and bayonet.
I worked as a pro for 10 years in there 60s and after giving up Leica RF over cost and beating, was fully kitted in Nikon RF and then in Nikon F. I used 4x5 Graphics, i.e. speeds, crowns and graflex, with assorted lenses in focal lengths multiple brands. , e.g. 90, 127 135, 200, baby berthas and big berthas (near the end of the era).
It's time I did an inventory, but first I have to get back in my cameras.
I probably own 100 of the relatively simple Kodak and other folding cameras, all have difference lenses and shutters. I own a variety of bellows, self-contained etc. cameras on the higher end of 100 years of so back. My earliest large camera is 1903 and I have some that go back to 1880. I like wooden cameras. I have brass lenses that go back to the 1850s. It's embarrassing.
I collect old plate cameras (I try to use all of the cameras at least once, sometimes more) in sizes from 4.5x6 to 6x9 to 9x12, Recomar, Bergheil, Maximar, etc. IN all about 25, each with different lenses and shutters. At least 35 view and press camera lenses in shutter.
Two View Cameras (in use, sort of) with probably a dozen lenses. Kodak Retinas, all the lenses available depending on body ID, plus I own the reflex version.
In digital, my primary worker are Canons, crop or not, but I have lenses from 8 mm (2, one russian, one not) reach out as far as 500, including three 70-300s, 55x210, My favorite digital in some instance is an MP-9p which allows me to use all the vitange and modern lenses abailable. Soviet screw mounts, various bayonet mounts, there are probably at least a dozen different versions of the Summicron in screw and bayonet.
I worked as a pro for 10 years in there 60s and after giving up Leica RF over cost and beating, was fully kitted in Nikon RF and then in Nikon F. I used 4x5 Graphics, i.e. speeds, crowns and graflex, with assorted lenses in focal lengths multiple brands. , e.g. 90, 127 135, 200, baby berthas and big berthas (near the end of the era).
It's time I did an inventory, but first I have to get back in my cameras.
I would say I rarely handle lenses I don't own, so the number is limited and countable. But, oops, many years ago I worked part-time in a camera shop, where I handled a bunch. Further, the owner encouraged me to take used gear out for a spin around the block, so to speak, for familiarization in aid of selling the stuff. That messes up any counting.
Stdon
Established
Lots and just a guess at 400-500. I used to test lenses for a shop and anything that came through that we could mate up to a Nikon I'd be the final test before they sold them. MF and LF lenses as well.
Myself right now I own:
6 LF
2MF
11 SF.
Myself right now I own:
6 LF
2MF
11 SF.