Description

<b>Legacy - Images that tell a story</b>Cooke SP3 is an exciting new prime lens series based on one of the most influential lenses in film history, Speed Panchro. SP3 is a completely new design optimized - optically and mechanically - for full-frame mirrorless cameras which will enable more creative to enhance the visual narrative of their stories.<b>User-changeable mount</b>User-changeable mounts for key cameras: E (fitted).<b>Compact and lightweight</b>Small and lightweight with an ergonomic design yet finished in tough anodized shell.<b>Panchro compatible</b>Matches perfectly with Cooke Panchro/i Classic (PL-mount).<b>Shared architecture</b>Focus and Iris mechanics are aligned across the set allowing for fast, smooth and accurate lens changes and to maintain focus and iris motor positions.<b>Imaging - Painting with light</b>The great cinematographers have always been interpreters of stories. Artists who translate the mechanical and the technical into a visual language that speaks to our soul. In an age when anybody can capture images in motion, telling emotionally impactful stories requires something different.<b>Making humans look human</b>So much of cinematic storytelling is about performance. Cooke SP3 combines resolution and color to transmit a character\'s emotion in a more believable way. The calibrated on-axis sharpness off the SP3 optical design subtly draws the viewers\' attention to the centre of the image to produce an experience subconsciously familiar to human vision.<b>Sculpting with depth</b>With a subtle combination of focus fall off and breathing Cooke SP3 lenses naturally lend themselves to the feeling of shape and enable cinematographers to refine a sense of space and dimension. The SP3\'s all-spherical design gifts the lenses with a gradient quality in the bokeh which presents as smooth and round. When used wide open the SP3 can offer focus fall off at the edge of the frame.<b>Crafted augmentation</b>Rather than overloading the image with dramatized artefacts the SP3 series organically captures specular flaring and veiling glare allowing cinematographers to focus on their creative intent. Specialized cinematic optical coatings ensure control of flare and matched color across the set.<b>Dynamic dimensionality</b>A sharpness designed into the centre of the image is complimented by a gentle focus fall-off towards the frame edge offering the DOP extra dimensionality to shape the image. A core imaging effect of using the SP3 is that these lenses are sharp on the optical axis, which translates to being sharp in the centre of the image. This is complimented by a delicate fall-off towards the edge of the frame mimicking the way the human eye sees the world.<b>Dynamic fall off</b>SP3 displays the classic Cooke Look characteristics and is super sharp on-axis but is designed to roll off towards the edge of frame.<b>8K and beyond</b>SP3 is capable of the highest levels of resolution on modern digital sensors.<b>Optical Design</b>SP3 is optimized for FF and combines The Cooke Look with a sharp on axis and focus fall off in the field.<b>Focus Movement</b>Ergonomically designed for smooth and accurate travel, with a non-linear focus movement.<b>Compatibility</b>SP3 has a standardized 0.8 MOD focus and iris drive gears. The 25mm to 75mm have a fixed common front diameter of 64mm; the 18mm and 100m have a front diameter of 82mm.<b>Iris</b>SP3 features a nine-leaf module iris assembly.<b>External Finish</b>Every SP3 lens is coated with a scratch resistant finish, which provides a durable, hard-wearing surface to meet the most demanding environmental conditions.<b>Aperture</b>All SP3 primes cover Full Frame and Super35 formats and provide full apertures of T2.4-T16.<b>Focus Scaling</b>All SP3 lenses have non-linear focus scales with dual imperial and metric scales.<b>Color Balance</b>All SP3 prime lenses are color balanced and color matched - ensuring consistency across the series and are further matched to Panchro/i Classic FF.<b>Camera Mount</b>SP3 features compatibility with modern mirrorless mount E.<b>Weight/Size Ratio</b>Compact and suitable for all shooting applications.