dan_nougue Posted January 3, 2007 Share Posted January 3, 2007 Hi, does anyone have a tele lens (wollensak optar, raptar, dallmeyer...) with his Graflex SLR? do you have any pics to share of some photos taken with it? I have a graflex super D and I contemplate to buy a tele lens, but still don't know which one... thanks for your sharing. Happy new Year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troll Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 The 15" Tele-Raptar only focuses to about 12' thus is not really usable for portraits. The 10" Tele-Raptar is a great lens, especially for portariture, but be aware that the aperture scale is nearly impossible to see/use due to the curtains on the pop-open lens hood. Of course only the factory 190mm Ektar has a pre-set aperture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drew bedo Posted January 6, 2007 Share Posted January 6, 2007 Bill; I think that the actual name of the lense that you have described is "Tele-Optar". They show up on e-bay in arrel mount or in shutters and were made in both 10" and 15" focal lengths. Regards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troll Posted January 7, 2007 Share Posted January 7, 2007 Optar and Raptar are just different trade names for the same lenses made by Wollensak and supplied to Graflex. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan_fromm2 Posted January 7, 2007 Share Posted January 7, 2007 Um, Bill, at least one of the Optars supplied by Graflex was made by Rodenstock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karl_knographer Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 I'm not sure of the bellows length on a Super D, but on my RB Auto 3x4, with 4x5 Graflok conversion, there's just enough bellows to do a 3/4 with a Dallmeyer 14" 4.5 that I picked up a while back. Here's a test image, from a scanned polaroid. Lovely lens, suprisingly sharp wide open with fantastic bokeh.<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karl_knographer Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 Sorry, was hurrying a bit and forgot to adjust curves before I resized.<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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