Some Images from my Favourite Wollensak 209mm f4.5 Raptar Copy Lens

The Wollensak 209mm f4.5 Raptar Copy Lens is one of my favourites enlarging/copy lenses.  The bokeh is pleasing, silky, and beautiful. Image quality is exceptionally good even wide open at f4.5.  I used to have a problem with it having hazy, white spot in the middle of the image, and it has been resolved by a foot-long hood.  The whole lens is about two feet long with the hood.  Looks very imposing, but works wonderfully.  I added a helicoid to the lens barrel to make it focus closer.  Here is how my first version of the lens look like.  Works nicely on full frame.

All pictures below were taken wide open at f4.5.

Curiosity - Sony A7 & Wollensak 209mm f4.5 Raptar Copy Lens. click for larger.

White Fence - Sony A7 & Wollensak 209mm f4.5 Raptar Copy Lens. click for larger.

Transformation - Sony A7 & Wollensak 209mm f4.5 Raptar Copy Lens. click for larger.

Dance of the Colours - Sony A7 & Wollensak 209mm f4.5 Raptar Copy Lens. click for larger.

More Bokeh - Sony A7 & Wollensak 209mm f4.5 Raptar Copy Lens.

The Village Idiot

One of the lamps outside of The Village Idiot -- 1D Mark III & Wollensak 209mm Copy Lens. Larger Picture.

The Village Idiot is actually the name of a bar at the corner of Dundas and McCaul street in Toronto. It's been around for ages and I have always wondered how they dreamed up such a name for a bar. But, you gotta admit that it sticks to your head.

I especially like the lamps outside the bar. Very unique.