Cooke Optics’ S7/i Full Frame Plus prime lenses were the first choice of renowned cinematographer Geoffrey Hall ACS (Chopper ,Red Dog: Escape from Pretoria) to shoot HALIFAX: Retribution, a reboot of the popular Australian TV crime drama series, Halifax f.p. that ran from 1994-2001 on
DP Denson Baker, NZCS ACS, selected Cooke Anamorphic lenses to recreate the universe portrayed in the long-anticipated TV adaptation of Eleanor Catton's Man Booker novel, The Luminaries. Produced by the BBC, Working Title Television and Southern Light Films and adapted for the screen by Catton herself,
DP Sam McCurdy, BSC deploys Cooke 5/i lenses to shoot the second season of Lost In Space, one of the latest Netflix sci-fi TV shows. McCurdy shot the first season with RED HELIUM cameras and Leica Summilux C lenses, but changed to a combination of
The reimagination of the Dark Crystal movie for Netflix’s TV series has been completed with Cooke anamorphic lenses. The original Dark Crystal is one of the most iconic movies of the 1980s; a dark-themed fantasy that took the puppetry skills that the Jim Henson Company had honed
Star Trek: Picard, the highly anticipated streaming series from CBS All Access, relied on two complete sets of Cooke Optics Anamorphic/i SF (“Special Flair”) lenses to tell the story for the follow-up series to Star Trek: The Next Generation. Director of Photography Philip Lanyon’s goal was to give this
Director / producer / cinematographer Peter Chang has decided to use Cooke S7/i full frame plus lenses at its new documentary film “Cuba”. Chang had first used the Cooke S7/i large format lenses on a project in early 2018, having tested them for giant-screen use
Director of Photography Mark MacEwen travelled thousands of miles with a set of Cooke miniS4/i lenses to shoot selected sequences that feature in the BBC’s latest landmark wildlife series, Seven Worlds, One Planet. The series, which visits all seven continents to document the unique wildlife to be found in
