Properties of the targeted sample of lens galaxies in the lensing analysis. Shown are scatter plots of absolute rest-frame u^*g′r′i′z′-magnitudes, colours, and stellar masses versus the photometric redshift z_ph (BPZ) of the CFHTLenS galaxies with flux limit i′≤22.5 in the stellar-mass interval 5 × 10⁹ ≤ M_sm <  3.2 × 10¹¹ M_⊙ (blue dots). The brighter orange dots show the scatter for lenses for all stellar masses which are clearly flux limited at higher redshifts z_ph. The data points are from galaxies in the field W1 only; other fields look similar.