209mm f/4.5 Raptar Copy Lenses

[Whir-Click]

This is an old thread, but in case anyone is curious where all those surplus 209mm Raptar Copy Lenses suddenly disappeared to: https://youtu.be/iGx1yy8hNYY

[Whir-Click]

For those of you who don’t care to sit through the video, I’ll summarize: all of the remaining lenses were purchased as a strategic reserve of Johnny 5 robot eyes.

[Tin Can]

Crazy

[Dugan]

In the spirit of necro-thread revival...
They screw directly in to an Alphax #4.
BTW, the 209 Copy Raptar is the same as a regular 209 Raptar with the cells switched from front to back.

[Whir-Click]

Wollensak shows the Raptar Copy Lens design in their ~1962 booklet “Raptar Lenses for the Graphic Arts.”

[Mark Sawyer]

BTW, the 209 Copy Raptar is the same as a regular 209 Raptar with the cells switched from front to back.

Whir-Click's catalog illustration shows a Tessar design in a normal order...