Cooke 18mm T2.0 S7/i Plus Prime Lens for PL Mount

Enhance your photography and videography experience with the high-quality 18mm T2.0 S7/i Plus Prime Lens for PL Mount. This professional-grade lens, designed by the renowned brand Cooke, is engineered to cover full frame cinema camera sensors up to at least 46.31mm image circle, making it versatile enough to shoot in various formats from 35mm to VistaVision.

Experience the unique Cooke Look, known for its excellent optical and mechanical performance. This lens offers superior control of flare, veiling glare, distortion, and spherical aberrations at full aperture, ensuring reliable and consistent results.

The lens is color-matched to Anamorphic/i, S4/i, miniS4/i, 5/i, and Panchro/i Classic lenses, ensuring practical and seamless integration into your existing equipment. It also comes equipped with the next generation of /i Technology for automatic lens metadata capture, providing vital information on lens setting, focusing distance, aperture, and depth-of-field, among other details.

This lens is a product of handcrafted innovation, with traditional polishing techniques used to achieve the highest level of precision. More insights and measurements are taken than ever before to ensure superior quality. The glass is coated with evaporated minerals at a high temperature in a vacuum to create a thin film, and edging is carried out to ensure that glass diameters are perfectly round.

The lens features a large, clear focus scaling on both sides of the focus barrel, benefiting the focus puller when shooting under difficult lighting conditions. The Entrance Pupil position is also engraved on the lens.

All Cooke S4/i Primes have a common fixed front diameter of 110mm, with a focus drive gear of 140T x 0.8 mod and an iris drive gear of 1147 x 0.8. The lenses are color balanced, color-matched, and compatible with Cooke 5/i, miniS4/i, and Anamorphic/i.

The lens is finished with a scratch-resistant PTFE hard anodized finish, providing a durable, hard-wearing surface to meet the most demanding environmental conditions. It has a true T2 aperture and covers Super 35mm format, with an eight-leaf linear module iris assembly fitted into S4/i primes with an aperture range of T2 to T22.

Every index mark is labeled, allowing for more detailed focus control. The lens also features an Academy Award-winning cam-style focus movement, coupled with a large lens barrel diameter, for an increased number of focus markings, particularly at close focus.

Designed for all shooting applications, including handheld and Steadicam, this lens provides a comfortable balance ratio with the latest compact cameras. It comes with a Cooked Hardened PL Mount with /i Technology contacts, ensuring reliability and easy service.

The 18mm T2.0 S7/i Plus Prime Lens for PL Mount is a durable, reliable, and versatile choice for professionals seeking to elevate their photography and videography skills.