It sounds like a bird of prey – Wollensak Raptar. It’s actually a Raptar Serirs II 162mm f/4.5 (Catalog 2) lens that was made from 1947 to 1972. This one is from around 1950 and is in excellent condition with a fully working and accurate Wollensak Rapax 3 Synchromatic lens.
This 162mm lens is equivalent to a 55mm ‘normal’ lens in 35mm photography.
Classic Burke & James Press (4×5) camera from the late 1940s to the mid-1950s (pictured below).
Super clean and shiny.
1946 catalog from Burke & James.
This press camera is designed to shoot with still available 4×5 inch sheet film in both color and black & white negative film and color transparency (slide) film.
An example of a currently available 4×5 sheet film. Kodak, Fujifilm, Ilford, and others are still made and there are many online labs that develop the film.
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