FS: Cooke Speed Panchro Lens Set

[Tim Carroll]

For Sale a set of the famous Cooke Speed Panchro Series II and Series III prime lenses, used by the likes of Kubrick, Cassavetes and many others. All these lenses are in original ARRI Standard mount and the set comes with the Les Bosher "ARRI Standard (Cooke) to PL mount adapter" so the lenses can be used on cameras with ARRI Standard Mount, ARRI Bayonet Mount and ARRI PL Mount. I've used these lenses with an Arriflex 35 IIC, and with the PL mount adapter, a Hot Rod PL Deluxe, and the Panasonic GH-1. A friend has used them with the PL mount adapter on a RED ONE camera. They make beautiful images.

All five of these lenses received a CLA from Guy Genin at ZGC and are ready to go.

The set includes:
The Cooke Speed Panchro Series III 18mm lens (serial number 688XXX)
The Cooke Speed Panchro Series III 25mm lens (serial number 740XXX)
The Cooke Speed Panchro Series II 32mm lens (serial number 629XXX)
The Cooke Speed Panchro Series II 50mm lens (serial number 687XXX)
The Cooke Speed Panchro Series II 75mm lens (serial number 753XXX)
The Les Bosher ARRI Standard (Cooke) to PL mount adapter.






You can see many more detailed pictures on my web site at the address below:

Cooke Speed Panchro Set

This set will go up on the evil auction site Sunday night, January 30th. If anyone from reduser.net would be interested in purchasing them before they go on auction, please contact me.

Best,
-Tim

[D Fuller]

Are these 16mm lenses? Or 35mm?

[Kip Kubin]

Cooke Speed Panchros are 35mm lenses

Cooke Kinetel lenses are 16mm

[Tim Carroll]

Thanks Kip,

Yes, they are classic 35mm motion picture camera lenses, the same lenses used by Kubrick, Cassavetes, Leone, and others. They give a beautiful classic film look.

And they go up on eBay tomorrow night if they haven't sold before then.

Best,
-Tim

[Paul Leeming]

Tim, any Red samples we can have a look at (stills are fine)?

Rough asking price?

Cheers,

Paul

[Tim Carroll]

Hi Paul,

Hunter Richards shot with these lenses and the Les Bosher adapter on a RED One last summer and was really happy with the results. He was supposed to send me clips, but somehow that never ended up happening.

Here's a short test clip I shot with the lenses on a film camera:

Cooke Speed Panchro Test

I have also used them with the Panasonic M4/3 cameras (GH1, GH2, soon to be available AF100) and they create that beautiful shallow depth of field as in this clip:

GH-1 clip

Rough asking price, $3500.

Best,
-Tim

[A. Clint Litton]

Do you know how well they cover 4k and 4.5k? Especially on the wider lenses...

Thanks,
Clint

[Tim Carroll]

Hi Clint,

Unfortunately I don't know that. I am not a RED One shooter. As I mentioned, Hunter Richards has used this set with the RED One, but I don't know the settings. I also have heard for the last few years that all these classic 35mm motion picture camera lenses can porthole at the wider end (with these that would be the 18mm and 25mm) with full frame digital sensors.

Best,
-Tim

[Dustin Cross]

Tim,

What is the front diameter of the lenses?

All of the lenses are T2.2?

Do you have any footage or stills that show the bokeh of the lenses?


Thanks,
Dusty

[Zakaree Sandberg]

Tim,

What is the front diameter of the lenses?

Thanks,
Dusty

tinyyyyyy...

these things are MINI but they do look good on red.