Picked up for dirt cheap the front element section of the lens in the title. Unfortunately, no shutter/aperture housing and no rear elements.
I've been unable to find nearly any info, never mind a lens schematic or anything near that.
For starters I'll take the front half out of a Canon FL 50/1.8 and see what happens with this Raptar slid into place.
To be clear, I have the front half and would ultimately like to build out a rear half as close to original spec as possible, then mount it into a focusing body/mount that will allow infinity or at least portrait length focus on a 35mm SLR / RF (especially RF as I could then experiment with RF calibration).
Any and all thoughts are welcome as this is entirely new territory for me.
From A Lens Collectors Vade Mecium:
Cine Lenses for 16mm. The following are from many sources, including a Burke & James catalogue.
High Speed Cine Raptar f1.5 12.7, 25, 40, 51mm,
No lens diagram mentioned. An earlier 50mm f1.9 cine raptar is listed as a 6g/4c Guass from around 1947.
Raptar is a trade name of Wollensak.
Thanks, all. That complete lens Dan linked to is what I believe this front half came from but I don't need the complete lens *that* badly at $1300 with 2 days left.
Quick update, I tried this front half of a lens on the rear half of a Biotar that I have opened up for aperture blade repair. Used blue painter's tape to secure the halves together.
Results: quite soft but almost usable or great for pictorial type of effect. Wacky/odd bokeh but that was expected. I used a non-film camera for testing so I can't share results here but I think I will run some b&w through a Spotmatic with this combo hanging off the front just for kicks.