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May 11, 2022 Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will bring viewers to where no Star Trek viewer has gone before – to a world with a look all its own. Using three sets of Cooke Optics Anamorphic/i Full Frame Plus Special Flare lenses, cinematographer Glen Keenan, CSC, achieved his desire for the most organic, non-studio look to convince the audience ...

March 10, 2022 For the small budget adventure-thriller Nine Bullets, Director of Photography Byron Werner used Cooke Optics Anamorphic/i prime lenses to give him the scope he needed for the intimate nature of the film while elevating the look to that of a bigger budget project, all with the help of The Cooke Look®. Nine Bullets tells the story of ...

March 16, 2022 Cooke Optics has announced the launch of the S8/i Full Frame (FF) series of seven lenses for full-frame production with an all-spherical design and T1.4 throughout, these currently include 25mm, 32mm, 40mm, 50mm, 75mm, 100mm, and 135mm focal lengths. A further nine lenses will join the range from late 2022. The S8/i are cutting-edge, state-of-the-art high-speed full ...

March 4, 2022 To shoot the sequel to the acclaimed political thriller King of Boys, cinematographer Kagho Idhebor chose the Cooke Optics Panchro/i Classic to help Nigerian director and writer Kemi Adetiba achieve her vision for the project. The original King of Boys feature film, also written and directed by Adetiba, follows the story of Alhaja Eniola Salami, a businesswoman ...

March 3, 2022 Chaperone, the 2022 Sundance Film Festival nominee for the Short Film Grand Jury Prize, is a 16-minute dark drama beautifully shot by cinematographer Jordan T. Parrott, with a final moment that “brings Chaperone’s story to a somber conclusion – one that manages to touch at the emotions, despite sparing use of dialogue, sound or musical cues,” as ...

February 23, 2022 Set in New York City in the 1880s, a period marked by the clash between old traditions and new paradigms, Julian Fellowes’ HBO original series The Gilded Age tells a story of two families from different socioeconomic backgrounds and the relationship between them as they are trying to navigate these times of immense change. Cinematographer Vanja Cernjul, ...

February 14, 2022 The Last Thing Mary Saw – a Shudder original movie for the AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thrillers and the supernatural – was shot using Cooke Optics S7/i Prime Lenses so that cinematographer David Kruta could capture the exact skin tones and color needed to deliver beautiful images to the audience. The Last Thing Mary ...

February 8, 2022 In From The Cold is Netflix’s new suspenseful and exciting series that follows a single mother exposed as an ex-Russian spy, who must juggle family life and unique shape-shifting skills in a battle against an insidious enemy. Cinematographer Hermes Marco, AEC, trusted a combination of Cooke S7/i Full Frame Plus and vintage Cooke Speed Panchro lenses, as ...