diff --git a/field_collection.module b/field_collection.module
index fe9911c..dd18df1 100644
--- a/field_collection.module
+++ b/field_collection.module
@@ -731,6 +731,13 @@ function field_collection_field_formatter_info() {
         'view_mode' => 'full',
       ),
     ),
+    'field_collection_one_field' => array(
+      'label' => t('One field only'),
+      'field types' => array('field_collection'),
+      'settings' =>  array(
+        'field_name' => FALSE,
+      ),
+    ),
   );
 }
 
@@ -742,6 +749,22 @@ function field_collection_field_formatter_settings_form($field, $instance, $view
   $settings = $display['settings'];
   $elements = array();
 
+  if ($display['type'] == 'field_collection_one_field') {
+    $available_fields = field_info_instances('field_collection_item', $field['field_name']);
+    $options = array();
+    foreach ($available_fields as $field_def) {
+      $options[$field_def['field_name']] = $field_def['label'];
+    }
+    $elements['field_name'] = array(
+      '#type' => 'select',
+      '#title' => t('Field'),
+      '#default_value' => $settings['field_name'],
+      '#description' => t('Select the field to be displayed.'),
+      '#options' => $options,
+    );
+    return $elements;
+  }
+
   if ($display['type'] != 'field_collection_fields') {
     $elements['edit'] = array(
       '#type' => 'textfield',
@@ -798,6 +821,11 @@ function field_collection_field_formatter_settings_summary($field, $instance, $v
   $settings = $display['settings'];
   $output = array();
 
+  if ($display['type'] == 'field_collection_one_field') {
+    $info = field_info_instance('field_collection_item', $settings['field_name'], $field['field_name']);
+    return t('Displayed field: !field', array('!field' => $info['label']));
+  }
+
   if ($display['type'] !== 'field_collection_fields') {
     $links = array_filter(array_intersect_key($settings, array_flip(array('add', 'edit', 'delete'))));
     if ($links) {
@@ -887,6 +915,30 @@ function field_collection_field_formatter_view($entity_type, $entity, $field, $i
         }
       }
       break;
+
+    case 'field_collection_one_field':
+
+      $view_mode = !empty($display['settings']['view_mode']) ? $display['settings']['view_mode'] : 'full';
+      foreach ($items as $delta => $item) {
+        if ($field_collection = field_collection_field_get_entity($item)) {
+          // It would be better to handle multivalue field_collection fields a
+          // bit more cleanly. This implementation simply and blindly returns
+          // the values as an array of renderable arrays, so they will be
+          // simply printed beside each other. A better approach would be to
+          // find a way to have some separator between them like ', ', but
+          // that's beyond me ATM (and I didn't want to fiddle with
+          // theme_item_list() because that approach didn't fit my use case).
+          if (isset($field_collection->{$settings['field_name']})) {
+            $output = array();
+            foreach ($field_collection->{$settings['field_name']}[LANGUAGE_NONE] as $collection_delta => $collection_item) {
+              $collection_value = field_view_value('field_collection_item', $field_collection, $settings['field_name'], $collection_item, $view_mode);
+              $output[] = $collection_value;
+            }
+            $element[$delta]['entity'] = $output;
+          }
+        }
+      }
+      break;
   }
 
   return $element;