Academy Award® winning cine lenses for multiple film and digital applications. Easily maintained, accurate, and reliable – get the Cooke Look.
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Sam Cooke, American singer, songwriter, producer, and entrepreneur, was a major figure in the history of popular music and one of the most influential Black vocalists of the post-World War II period.
Founded in 1894, Cooke is global brand based in Leicester in the UK with offices north of Hollywood, Beijing and London.
See B&H's vast selection of Cooke Optics. We carry Cooke SP3 FF, Full Frame Cine Lenses and Varotal/i Full Frame Zoom, all at unbelievable prices.
Still hand-built in Leicester, UK by skilled technicians, Cooke's lenses embody the unique, vintage character of classic Hollywood motion picture optics while incorporating state-of-the-art design to produce a stunning combination of art and science.
Cooke SP3 combines resolution and colour 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.
The brand name Cooke originally came from the company T. Cooke & Sons of York, a manufacturer of telescopes. The optical manager of that company, H. Dennis Taylor (no relation), devised the Cooke triplet lens in the 1890s.
Most people equate Cooke lenses with an indelible softness in the image it produces. In actuality, Cooke’s are some of the sharpest cinema lenses being produced today, able to distinguish up to 200 line pairs per millimeter.