In-line holographic lenses of numerical aperture of 0.4 and 0.55 were successfully fabricated for the purpose of the application to an optical disk player with a He-Ne laser. They were recorded at 6471 Å in the methylene-blue sensitized dichromated gelatin film of 15 µm in thickness. The special design of the optical recording system and the careful processing of the recording materials were required. The evaluations of the modulation transfer function, the focused beam profile, the average diffraction efficiency and the stability test were performed. Bragg and Raman Nath diffractions occurred in the hologram were also investigated to explain the observed results.