Issuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online. Cooke speed panchros combined a relative aperture as wide as f2. Cooke optics has revived their classic cooke speed panchro optics concept and mated it to a modern, reliable mechanical housing for a truly unique style. No scratches, no fungus, no haze, no separations, only very few dusts and few cleaning marks on rear glass. The new cooke panchroi classic primes feature an aperture as fast as t2. Administratively speaking, cooke optics is a spinoff of the company taylorhobson. Digital leica s adapted rare lens vintage 1928y taylor hobson cooke f2. Technical excellence and endurance royal geographic al society. Cooke speed panchros, series iii 18mm and 25mm gordon cook was the optical designer.
Rent cooke speed panchro lenses tstop camera rentals. Mar 06, 20 the iconic cooke speed panchro lenses redefined filmmaking, steering the industry through decades of movie production. He was a selftaught optical engineer of great ability. Technicolor cameras were equipped with special cooke speed panchro lenses. Id be willing to even buy a set of these lenses and rehouse them yet how could countless sets have dropped out of circulation.
They are separated by tstop but they all share the. We tried to be true to the cinematography tools of the time, so for the 20s i used my older cooke speed panchro lenses, which could have been used back in the silent films of that period. The problems of photographic lens design, creating a lens for a task that would cover a large, flat image plane, were well known even before the invention of photography due to the development of lenses to work with the focal plane of the camera obscura. The americans fifty talks on our life and times by cooke, alistair and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Cookes was bought by vickers in 1915, although until 1963 it continued to trade as cooke, troughton and simms. Cooke speed panchros were the standard by which other lenses were measured for much of the golden age of cinema, prominently being used in classical hollywood cinema between the 1930s and 1960s. Broad collection of cooke set at hard to beat prices. Massive features jutting out of the cameras form factor which could be made completely redundant by microchips today arriflex cooke speed panchro on leica m.
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The cooke book and a cooke look back reprints from film and digital times. Rent cooke iclassic panchros lenses tstop camera rentals. The glass in the cooke panchro i classics are based on the same designs first made in the 1920s. The speed panchros produce images that you cant recreate in post. The gentlemen at true lens service tls in the uk displayed a fully functional prototype of their 18mm cooke speed panchro at ibc last year which garnered a respectable amount of interest. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Cooke makes several sets of primes lenses, from the high speed 5i set to the industry standard s4i primes to the affordable mini s4i lenses.
Designed in 194546 by famed optical designer gordon cook, the series ii speed panchro improved on the design that made cooke the standard in hollywood where mgm, warner bros. A legacy of superior and innovative lens design and manufacture under the cooke name that continued throughout the 20th century. The complete lineup including the 18mm, 25mm, 32mm, 40mm, 50mm, 75mm and 100mm. Two sets of rehoused cooke speed panchros were used to depict a variety of the older lens characteristics and to confirm the repeatability and.
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