Cooke SP3 5-Lens Set

Cooke SP3 is an exciting new prime lens series based on one of the most influential lenses in film history, Speed Panchro™. SP3 is a completely new design optimised – optically and mechanically – for full-frame mirrorless cameras which will enable more creatives to enhance the visual narrative of their stories.

Making Humans Look Human

So much of cinematic storytelling is about performance. 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.

Sculpting with depth

With a subtle combination of focus fall off and breathing Cooke SP3 lenses naturally lend themselves to the feeling of shape and enable cinematographers to refine a sense of space and dimension. The SP3’s all-spherical design gifts the lenses with a gradient quality in the bokeh which presents as smooth and round. When used wide open the SP3 can offer focus fall off at the edge of the frame.

Crafted augmentation

Rather than overloading the image with dramatised artefacts the SP3 series organically captures specular flaring and veiling glare allowing cinematographers to focus on their creative intent. Specialised cinematic optical coatings ensure control of flare and matched colour across the set.

Dynamic dimensionality

A sharpness designed into the centre of the image is complimented by a gentle focus fall-off towards the frame edge offering the DOP extra dimensionality to shape the image. A core imaging effect of using the SP3 is that these lenses are sharp on the optical axis, which translates to being sharp in the centre of the image. This is complimented by a delicate fall-off towards the edge of the frame mimicking the way the human eye sees the world.

Dynamic Fall Off

SP3 displays the classic Cooke Look characteristics and is super sharp on-axis but is designed to roll-off towards the edge of frame.

8K and Beyond

SP3 is capable of the highest levels of resolution on modern digital sensors.

T-Stop range T2.4 - T16

Angular rotation of iris scale 78°

Min. marked object distance 250 mm, 350 mm, 500 mm, 800 mm, 800 mm / 10 in, 13 in, 20 in, 3 ft, 3 ft

Close focus from lens front 139 mm, 223 mm, 394 mm, 689 mm, 663 mm / 5.5 in, 8.8 in, 15.5 in, 27.1 in, 26.1 in

Angular rotation to MOD endstop 160°

Length from front of lens to lens mount (E - Mount) 98 mm, 94 mm, 94 mm, 98 mm, 124 mm / 3.85 in, 3.7 in, 3.7 in, 3.85 in, 4.88 in

Max. front diameter 64 mm, 64 mm, 64 mm, 64 mm, 82 mm / 2.52 in, 2.52 in, 2.52 in, 2.52 in, 3.22 in

Max. diagonal angle of view for FF format 81°, 69°, 47°, 32°, 25°

Max. diagonal angle of view for S35 format 62°, 50°, 34°, 22°, 17°

Total weight (with lens mount) 575 g, 520 g, 500 g, 520 g, 690 g / 1.27 lbs, 1.15 lbs, 1.10 lbs, 1.15 lbs, 1.52 lbs

Screw-in filter M58 x 0.75, M58 x 0.75, M58 x 0.75, M58 x 0.75, M77 x 0.75

Maximum format cover Full Frame, optimised for coverage of 43.3mm

Focus scales Dual Focus Non-Linear scales - Imperial and Metric, scales marked from infinity to MOD

Focus drive gear 83 teeth 0.8 Metric Module

Iris scales Non-Linear scale, whole and third stops marked

Iris drive gear 83 teeth 0.8 Metric Module