What kind of cameras did Ansel Adams use?

Answer 1

Adams also was known to pack 100's of pounds of camera and darkroom gear into the wilderness. Adams' photographic gear included: # 8 x 10 view camera, 20 holders, 4 lenses -- 1 Cooke Convertible, 1 ten-inch Wide Field Ektar, 1 9-inch Dagor, one 6-3/4-inch Wollensak wide angle.

# 7 x 17 special panorama camera with a Protar 13-1/2-inch lens and five holders. # 4 x 5 view camera, 6 lenses -- 12-inch Collinear, 8-1/2 Apo[chromatic] Lentar, 9-1/4 Apo[chromatic] Tessar, 4-inch Wide Field Ektar, Dallmeyer telephoto. # Hasselblad camera outfit with 38, 60, 80, 135, & 200 millimeter lenses. # Koniflex 35 millimeter camera. # 2 Polaroid cameras. # 3 exposure meters. One SEI, and two Westons -- in case he dropped one. # Filters for each camera. K1, K2, minus blue, G, X1, A, C5 &B, F, 85B, 85C, light balancing, series 81 and 82. # Two tripods: one light, one heavy. # Lens brush, stopwatch, level, thermometer, focusing magnifier, focusing cloth, hyperlight strobe portrait outfit, 200 feet of cable, special storage box for film. # One ancient, eight-passenger limousine with 5 x 9-foot camera platform on top." # Brownie Box #1 (his 1st camera from 1915-16). # Pocket Kodak # Zeiss Milliflex.

# Zeiss compact 35 millimeter # 6-1/2 x 8-1/2 glass plate camera # Contax II (as mentioned originally by user Chrissyvintage)