Cookes Tour.

[Allan Black]

Might have been put here before, but here's an interesting tour through the Cooke lens factory. Note this guy cleans his Cookes with Acetone on a cotton ball. Don't try that etc.

The Taylor Bros. invented the dimpled golf ball, hasn't helped me either. Enjoy

http://fdtimes.com/articles/cooke/Cooke Book6_Web150dpi.pdf

Cheers.

 

[Ryan Patrick O'Hara]

It was... (http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?233650-If-you-like-Cooke-lenses-you-ll-love-this...)

But I am all for it being posted again. I love Film and Digital Times, and I love Cooke!

 

[Ryan Patrick O'Hara]

If you want some new news,

Cooke Press Release: Leicester, UK - August 8th 2011

Cooke Optics, the premier manufacturer of precision lenses for the motion picture industry, announced today that it will unveil 135mm lenses for its 5/i Prime and Panchro lens sets at IBC 2011 on Stand 11.D10. The 135mm focal lengths are the latest eagerly anticipated additions to each set.

 

[Allan Black]

Thanks yep, I saw that announcement.

I wonder why this set of lens was dropped by Leica. "The Leica R lenses were an excellent series that Leica dropped shortly after introducing" Why did they go to all that trouble, do you know?

http://matthewduclos.wordpress.com/2011/08/11/leica-r-cine-mod-set/

Cheers.

 

[Ryan Patrick O'Hara]

Maybe he is talking about a particular lens? R-series, I believe simply means it's a lens for the leica R-mount... which has been around for about 50 years, I believe. The R-mount is the SLR camera line by Leica. Over the 50 years they have released many many cameras (the last being in the 2000's, I think) and many many lenses.

Maybe it's just hard to find the ones he likes? Or maybe, since Leica's are usually very professional and revered lenses, they are hard to come by because they weren't mass produced like nikons and people hold onto them for longer.

Either way, Leica didn't forsake the R-mount lens line for about half a century.

I'm not sure what he meant by that.


My best guess would be that the lenses Duclos likes are probably the most recent and modern of the R-mount lenses. These probably were released along the same time as the last R-mount camera, and since the last R-mount camera (R9) was discontinued about two years ago, I'm going to guess Leica stopped making the newer R-series lenses since there would be no longer any further R-series cameras, such as the R10. So it was probably a timing issue. They released some new R-series lenses for the R9, but stopped making them when they decided to stop making the R9 and to not make an R10. They probably just moved along to the M-series and continued on.