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Set Includes
- Cooke Speed Panchro 18mm T2.2
- Cooke Speed Panchro 25mm T2.2
- Cooke Speed Panchro 32mm T2.3
- Cooke Speed Panchro 40mm T2.3
- Cooke Speed Panchro 50mm T2.3
- Cooke Speed Panchro 75mm T2.3
- Cooke Speed Panchro 100mm T2.8
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TLS Cooke Speed Panchro
Prime - Spherical - Super 35
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Cine Visuals rents the TLS Cooke Speed Panchro vintage Super 35 prime lens set from Los Angeles. This 7-lens PL-mount set includes 18mm, 25mm, 32mm, 40mm, 50mm, 75mm, and 100mm. Available for rental or sub-rental worldwide, with daily and weekly rental quotes available on request. Each lens is inspected and calibrated in-house before rental.
Set Includes
- Cooke Speed Panchro 18mm T2.2
- Cooke Speed Panchro 25mm T2.2
- Cooke Speed Panchro 32mm T2.3
- Cooke Speed Panchro 40mm T2.3
- Cooke Speed Panchro 50mm T2.3
- Cooke Speed Panchro 75mm T2.3
- Cooke Speed Panchro 100mm T2.8
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Lens Type:
Vintage Cinema Lenses
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Super 35 Lenses
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PL Mount Cinema Lenses
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About the TLS Cooke Speed Panchro Cinema Lenses
Cooke Speed Panchros deliver a soft, romantic image defined by gentle contrast, flattering skin tones, and smooth focus falloff that naturally draws attention to the subject. They are not designed for clinical sharpness, particularly wide open, instead offering a painterly rendering with subtle separation and a distinctly human quality that has defined the classic โCooke Lookโ for decades.
Rehoused by TLS, these lenses gain modern cine mechanics, including precise focus marks, standardized gearing, and durable housings, allowing them to integrate seamlessly into contemporary production environments. Flare is expressive yet controlled, often producing a delicate veiling glow, while bokeh can exhibit a slightly swirled character that enhances their vintage personality. The result is a historically proven optical signature paired with reliable, production-ready performance.
Image Fidelity & Focus
Speed Panchros are renowned for their romantic rendering. They are not surgically sharp, especially wide open, but they offer low-to-moderate contrast and a painterly quality that flatters faces and softens digital harshness. Mid-tones are beautifully separated; focus falloff is graceful, with pleasing vignetting at wider apertures. Stopped down a stop or two, the lenses tighten up nicely while retaining their organic micro-contrast. Focus โpopsโ softly: the in-focus plane has presence without a hard wall, then transitions gradually into blur.
Flare & Bokeh
Flares are ghostly and expressive, often producing a veiling glow that enhances atmosphere. Veiling flare and small, warm internal reflections occur when pointing at sources, yet the images tend to hold together rather than collapse into milk. Chromatic aberrations are visible, but cinematographers often lean into these imperfections. The bokeh is swirly, sometimes cat-eyed, adding to their vintage character.
Handling & Adaptability
These TLS Panchros are PL mount and play nicely with ARRI, RED, Sony, and film bodies. The rigid chassis tolerates clip-on matte boxes and motor stacks without image shift. Because the mechanics are modern (hard stops, standardized gears), they integrate seamlessly with wireless FIZ systems and metadata-capable accessories even though the optics themselves predate /i protocols.
Image Circle
Rehoused S2/S3 optics are Super 35 lenses. They comfortably cover S35 film and digital modes with clean corners; some longer focal lengths may cover certain larger formats in crop/monitoring modes, but full-frame and LF are not the design intent.
Cinematic Heritage
Speed Panchros trace to the 1920sโ30s, matured through Series II (post-war) and Series III (late 1950s/early 1960s), where designer Peter A. Merigold famously updated the 18 mm and 25 mm with early aspheric elements to improve aberration correction while shrinking size. Their ubiquity across mid-century Hollywood helped define a softer, warmer, face-forward aesthetic that many still call simply โthe Cooke Look.โ Speed Panchros have shot countless classicsโa few examples: Citizen Kane (1941), The Red Shoes (1948) to Dr. Zhivago (1965).
Technical Specs Table
T-Stop
Type
Format
Front Diameter
Lens Mount
Metadata
Close Focus (ft)
Close Focus (m)
Weight (lbs)
Weight (kg)
Length (in)
Length (mm)
Iris Blades
Image Circle
Front Filter
Rear Filter
Horizontal Angle of View (Full Frame)
Horizontal Angle of View (S35)
Focus Rotation
T2.2
Spherical
Super 35
110 mm
PL
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8"
0.20 m
1.80 lbs
0.82 kg
2.40"
60.96 mm
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33 mm
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T2.2
Spherical
Super 35
110 mm
PL
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8"
0.20 m
1.90 lbs
0.86 kg
2.70"
68.58 mm
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33 mm
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T2.3
Spherical
Super 35
110 mm
PL
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9"
0.23 m
1.80 lbs
0.82 kg
2.70"
68.58 mm
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33 mm
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T2.3
Spherical
Super 35
110 mm
PL
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13"
0.33 m
1.90 lbs
0.86 kg
2.70"
68.58 mm
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33 mm
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T2.3
Spherical
Super 35
110 mm
PL
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15"
0.38 m
2.30 lbs
1.04 kg
3.10"
78.74 mm
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33 mm
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T2.3
Spherical
Super 35
110 mm
PL
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2'4"
0.71 m
2.70 lbs
1.22 kg
3.50"
88.90 mm
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33 mm
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T2.8
Spherical
Super 35
110 mm
PL
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2'
0.61 m
3.60 lbs
1.63 kg
5.75"
146.05 mm
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33 mm
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