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Cooke 50mm T2.8 miniS4/i Cine Lens for PL Mount, Feet
SKU: COCKEP5 MFR: CKEP 50
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Key Features
- Capture stunning visuals with this 50mm Cooke cine lens, perfect for film-quality footage.
- Achieve a beautiful, cinematic look with the T2.8 aperture, ideal for shallow depth of field.
- Enjoy robust build quality for reliable performance, designed for demanding film sets and shoots.
- Ensure seamless compatibility with PL Mount cameras, enhancing your professional video setup.
- Experience precise manual focus for creative control, essential for narrative film-making projects.
- Get sharp, detailed images with this lens, optimized for Super 35 format digital cinema cameras.
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About Cooke 50mm T2.8
Explore the realm of professional cinematography with the Cooke 50mm T2.8 miniS4/i Cine Lens, a high-quality prime lens that embodies the perfect blend of performance and portability for PL mount cameras. This lens is renowned for its exceptional resolution and optical quality, maintaining the esteemed Cooke standard that filmmakers and videographers have come to trust.
Crafted for precision and durability, the Cooke miniS4/i primes offer a versatile aperture range from T2.8 to T22, enabling you to achieve cinematic depth of field and shoot impeccably in various lighting conditions. The T2.8 aperture is particularly beneficial for low-light scenarios, ensuring that your footage retains clarity and detail without the need for excessive lighting equipment.
The 50mm focal length of this lens is equivalent to the human eye's perspective, making it an ideal choice for a wide array of shooting requirements, from intimate portraits to expansive landscapes. Its manual focus mechanism allows for meticulous control, ensuring that your subject is always rendered with crisp definition.
Integrating seamlessly with both film and digital cameras, the Cooke miniS4/i primes are engineered to excel in high-resolution productions up to and beyond 4K, guaranteeing that your work meets the highest standards of modern filmmaking. The lens's compatibility with other S4/i and 5/i series lenses further enhances its utility, providing a comprehensive toolkit for creative expression.
Equipped with Cooke's innovative /i Technology, this lens delivers crucial data directly to your camera, including focus distance, aperture settings, depth of field, hyperfocal distance, and lens metadata. This information is invaluable for streamlining post-production workflows and ensuring consistent results across various shooting conditions.
Whether you're a seasoned professional or an emerging talent in the film and television industry, the Cooke 50mm T2.8 miniS4/i Cine Lens is a reliable and indispensable asset that promises to elevate your visual storytelling to new heights.
Cooke 50mm T2.8 Features
- Optical Design: The optics are designed to give maximum performance at full aperture with superior control of flare, distortion and spherical aberration.
- i Electronics: Accessible via contacts in PL mount that sync with /i compatible cameras.
- Colour Balance: All miniS4/i prime lenses are colour balanced to a specification within parameters approved by Kodak.
- Aperture: All miniS4/i primes have a true T2.8 aperture and cover Super 35mm format.
- Index Marks: Every index mark is labelled. More detailed markings allow for more detailed focus control.
- Focus Movement: Cooke cam-style focus movement coupled with the added benefit of a large lens barrel diameter, has allowed for an increased number of focus markings, particularly at close focus. Spherical aberration has been controlled throughout the range of focal lengths to eliminate compensation of changes in back focus with aperture
- Camera Mounts: Arriflex PL Mount
- Focus Scaling: Large, clear numerals on both sides of the focus barrel benefit thefocus puller when shooting under difficult lighting conditions. Plus the the Entrance Pupil position is engraved on the lens.
- Compatibility: All Cooke miniS4/i primes have a common fixed front diameter of 87mm, with a focus drive gear of 121T x 0.8 mod and an iris drive gear of 119T x0.8.
- External Finish: A scratch resistant PTFE hard anodised finish is provided on all Cooke lenses, providing a durable, hard-wearing surface to meet the most demanding environmental conditions.
- Iris: An eight-leaf linear module iris assembly is fitted into miniS4/i primes with an aperture range of T2.8 to T22.
- Weight/Size Ratio: The lenses are designed for all shooting applications, including handheld and Steadicam, providing comfortable balance ratio with the latest compact cameras.
- Reliability and Service: miniS4/i prime lenses are designed to meet a market requirement for fully reliable performance with a minimum of downtime.