Cooke Optics produces professional camera lenses that have been chosen by cinematographers for over a century. These lenses are renowned for offering a smooth roundness and dimensionality to a picture, along with velvety skin tones known as “The Cooke Look”. Based and manufacturing in Thurmaston near Leicester since 1894. Cooke Optics manufactures a full range of primes and zooms for Full-Frame 35mm, Super 35mm and Super 16mm cinematography formats in Film and Digital. Our lens ranges are Anamorphic/I Full Frame Plus, S7/i, Panchro/i Classic, 5/i, S4/i, Anamorphic/i, Anamorphic Zoom and miniS4/i.

Just a few iconic films & TV series shot on Cooke lenses: Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn, Bombshell, The Irishman, Motherless Brooklyn, Pain & Glory, Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance. Peaky Blinders, Mr Robot, A Star is Born, Bohemian Rhapsody, Dr Who (series 11), Vice, Halloween (2018), Fleabag, Sorry To Bother You, Stan and Ollie, Game of Thrones, The Crown, Ozark, Outlander, Altered Carbon, Westworld, A Star is Born, Bohemian Rhapsody, Venom, Darkest Hour, Call Me By Your Name, Guardians of The Galaxy, The Grand Budapest Hotel, 12 Years A Slave, Brokeback Mountain, Casino Royale, Erin Brockovitch, 12 Monkeys, Apocalypse Now, Harry Potter films, Her, The Empire Strikes Back, Some Like it Hot, Sparticus, Goldfinger, The Sound of Music, Superman, Star Wars: Return of the Jedi...

• Get the Cooke look www.cookeoptics.com

• Watch www.cookeoptics.tv

• Contribute to the #shotoncooke global motion gallery & Suggestions to shotoncooke@cookeoptics.com

Videos to watch:
• Les Zellan interviewed by Alex Ferrari of top podcast Indie Film Hustle
• Kristian Hampton of Wex Photo takes you on a virtual Cooke factory tour

Photo credits. Banner Image by Owen Tanner at London rental house PixiPixel. Factory tour images by De Montfort University film student Tamas Hilbert, Focus Puller Ilaria Fulvio, Ben Hughes at the Cut Camera Company, Tom Mitchell from Mission Digital. See more in the Cooke Optics Facebook page album. Mike Vogan Camera Operator Guerilla Productions. Joey Lever, MD of Leicester based production company Digitilheart.