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Company Summary

Cooke Optics

Company Website: https://www.cookeoptics.com/
Duclos Page: https://www.ducloslenses.com/pages/cooke
A legacy of superior and innovative lens design and manufacture under the Cooke name that continued throughout the 20th century beginning with still portrait, telephoto and process lenses, through the development of acclaimed Cooke cine and television lenses, and continues today by Cooke Optics Limited, with award winning 35mm cine prime and zoom lenses.


Lens Models

Speed Panchro (early, non-coated)

Speed Panchro - Series I

Speed Panchro - Series II

Speed Panchro - Series III

Telepanchro

Mini S4/i S35

Panchro/i Classic S35

Panchro/i Classic FF

S4/i S35

S5/i S35

S7/i FF

Macro/i FF

S8/i FF

Panchro 65/i

Anamorphic/i S35

Anamorphic/i FF

Anamorphic/i SF

Anamorphic/i FF SF

Zoom Lenses

SP3 Lenses

Misc. Lenses

Key Figures

Les Zellan - Chairman
Robert Howard - CEO & Finance
Alan Merrills - COO


History

1893

As optical manager of T. Cooke & Sons of York, makers of astronomical telescopes, H. Dennis Taylor attempted to eliminate the optical distortion or aberration at the outer edge of lenses. In 1893 he designed and patented the revolutionary, and now famous, triplet design (British patent no. 1991). The Cooke Triplet concept was a simple and elegant solution to design issues that plagued lens designers of the era.

1913

Clarence White and Alfred Stieglitz, master impressionist photographers, among others, used a Taylor, Taylor & Hobson lens known as “The Rapid View” or “Portrait Lens” (brass lens engraved “R.V.P.”) produced by TT&H in the late 1880s. By 1913, because of the influence of these acclaimed photographers, the company received numerous requests for the RVP lens that predated the sharp Cooke Anastigmat. In response to an avalanche of requests, they reproduced the single lens RVP as the “Cooke Achromatic Portrait Lens f/7.5” (as engraved) in four focal lengths: 10.5 inch for 4×5, 12 inch for 5×8, 15 inch for 6.5×8.5 and 18 inch for the 8×10 format. The “new” versions of these lenses included an iris diaphragm.


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