Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/02/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi all, thank you for your complements! The Cooke PS945, unfortunately is a large format lens. Taylor & Taylor Hobson had been making large format lens since the late 1800s. The Cooke triplet is one of the earliest "cult" formula and is still used for low end cameras, including cell phones and the hand made Miyazaki san 24mm, 28mm and 35mm Leica lens. The company's descendant Cooke company still makes some of the finest cinematic lens as seen in popular movies: Cooke lenses have recently been used on film projects including *Zero Dark Thirty, A Good Day To Die Hard, After Earth, Hugo, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Midnight in Paris* and *My Week With Marilyn*, and on television productions including *Parade's End, World Without End, Game Of Thrones, Downton Abbey, True Blood, The Borgias* and *Chicago Fire*. In the 1920s, Boston's Pinkham & Smith produces one of the most sought after portrait lens ever, the Visual Quality Series IV. Unlike other soft focus lens, which might use a diffusion disk, P&S formula relies on certain aberrations in open apertures to achieve the subtle soft look with the smoothest bokeh that would "make grown men and women wept" (my words :-) ) In the early 2000, Cooke's Chief Optic Designer, I believe only the 3rd in the company's history (I can't find the info currently) recreated the legendary formula. The lens are made in batches, I believe only 200 (2 batches of 100x each) have been made since 2000. Mine is serial # 59. I have to sell my Summicron 28 plus others to pay for it, but it's definitely a portrait lens without peer. On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 9:02 AM, Steve Barbour <steve.barbour at gmail.com> wrote: > please tell us about that lens Richard, that is a beautiful portrait. > > > steve > > > > > On Feb 24, 2015, at 8:58 AM, FRANK DERNIE <frank.dernie at > > btinternet.com> > wrote: > > > > Beautiful portrait Richard, I can see why you like that Cooke lens so > much! > > > > > > > >> ________________________________ > >> From: Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com> > >> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > >> Sent: Tuesday, 24 February 2015, 12:04 > >> Subject: [Leica] IMG: Yet another test portrait > >> > >> > >> And then another test shot, but with the incomparable Cooke PS945 > >> > >> http://richardmanphoto.com/PICS/20150224-Scanned-799-Edit.jpg > >> > >> -- > >> // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> > >> // http://facebook.com/richardmanphoto > >> // https://www.facebook.com/Transformations.CosplayPortraits > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Leica Users Group. > >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >> > >> > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> // http://facebook.com/richardmanphoto // https://www.facebook.com/Transformations.CosplayPortraits