Cooke 135mm T2.3 Anamorphic/i 1.8x Plus Lens for PL Mount

Bring your cinematic vision to life with the 135mm T2.3 Anamorphic/i 1.8x Plus Lens for PL Mount, a high-quality, professional-grade lens that offers an evolution in large format production. This lens combines anamorphic characteristics, such as flare and oval bokeh, with superb optical and mechanical performance. It controls flare, distortion, veiling glare, and spherical aberrations even at full aperture, ensuring crisp, clear images every time.

This versatile lens boasts a balanced coverage circle that fully covers a 24 x 36 still size sensor with a 1.8 squeeze, hitting the perfect sweet spot for detailed, high-resolution photography and filmmaking. With eight focal lengths available, each featuring the coveted Cooke Look, this lens offers a range of options to meet your creative needs.

Equipped with /i Technology, this lens captures frame by frame digital information, providing detailed lens data for production, VFX, and post-production teams. This includes vital information such as focus distance, aperture, depth-of-field, owner data, and focal length in both metric and footage measurements. It also intelligently gathers inertial tracking data, shading, and distortion data.

The Anamorphic/i series, which this lens is a part of, comprises of 10 Anamorphic Prime Lenses. These lenses are optimized for film and digital film cameras, reducing lateral color aberration and providing an organic bokeh look. They are designed to provide maximum performance at full aperture with superior control of flare, distortion, and spherical aberration. The optics feature a 2x squeeze factor for super35 formats in 2.4:1 aspect ratio.

All Anamorphic/i lenses are color balanced and color matched, ensuring consistency across the series. They also feature an eleven-leaf linear module iris assembly, providing an aperture range of T2.3-T22. The focus movement is ergonomically designed for smooth and accurate travel, utilizing precision mechanics for a consistent feel in operation through the entire focus movement.

The Cooke /I Technology ecosystem provides critical lens metadata such as focus and Iris position, making it suitable for the most modern VFX applications such as Virtual Production shooting. The lens is fitted with a precision PL Mount with /i Technology and has standardized 0.8 MOD focus and Iris drive gears. It also features a durable and hard-wearing surface finish to meet the needs of the most demanding environmental conditions.

The 135mm T2.3 Anamorphic/i 1.8x Plus Lens for PL Mount is a reliable, durable choice for professionals seeking superior performance and reliability with a minimum of downtime.