SP3 Mirrorless Primes
See The Range
The SP3 T2.4 Full Frame spherical prime. Cooke’s classic Speed Panchro design delivered through lenses built for the digital age.
SP3 - 100 mm
SP3 - 25 mm
SP3 - 32 mm
SP3 - 50 mm
SP3 - 75 mm
Make Moving Images
SP3 ESSENTIALS
- Focal length range: 25mm / 32mm / 50mm / 75mm /100mm
- Format: Full Frame (S35 compatible)
- Mount: Interchangable: E (fitted) RF (supplied when available), L (available as accessory), M (available early 2024)
- Speed: T2.4
- Form: Small and lightweight yet finished in tough anodised shell
- Scale: Dual Focus scales
- Compatibility: Matched to Panchro/i Classic series
User-changeable mount
User-changeable mounts for key cameras: E-Mount, RF-Mount (supplied); L-Mount, M-Mount (available as accessories).
Compact and lightweight
Small and lightweight with an ergonomic design yet finished in tough anodised shell.
Panchro compatible
Matches perfectly with Cooke Panchro/i Classic (PL-mount).
Shared architecture
Focus and Iris mechanics are aligned across the set allowing for fast, smooth and accurate lens changes and to maintain focus and iris motor positions.SP3 Key Facts
- Focal lengths: 25mm / 32mm / 50mm / 75mm /100mm
- User-changeable mounts for key cameras: E-Mount, RF-Mount* (supplied); L-Mount, M-Mount** (available as accessories)
- Full Frame
- T2.4 throughout the range
- 9 bladed Iris
- Matches perfectly with Cooke Panchro/i Classic
- Dual focus scale (imperial and metric scales)
- Small and lightweight yet finished in tough anodised shell
- Shared architecture: Focus and Iris mechanics are aligned across the set, to allow for fast lens changes and to maintain focus and iris motor positions
- Smooth and accurate focus and iris axis feel
- Industry-standard mechanical interfaces for all focus systems and third party lens supports
SP3 Imaging Characteristics
- SP3 is a closely based on Speed Panchro™, the classic Cooke lens championed by Hollywood filmmakers
- The Cooke Look: SP3 provides the heightened dimensionality and contrast performance that renders images with greater realism
- SP3 renders faces with remarkably believable skin tone and character
- SP3 offers outstanding definition and resolution yet features fall-off towards the edge of frame: a key factor in its famous cinematic look
- Specialised Cooke cinematic optical coatings that ensure control of flare and matched colour across the set
SP3 Products
- SP3 individual focal lengths in reusable protective case
- SP3 five lens set in heavy-duty carry case
*RF-mount will be available soon after launch. Purchasers will be able redeem a set free of charge by following the instructions in the packaging.
**M-mount available early 2024.
Basic specification
| Specifications | 25mm | 32mm | 50mm | 75mm | 100mm |
| T-Stop range | T2.4 - T16 | T2.4 - T16 | T2.4 - T16 | T2.4 - T16 | T2.4 - T16 |
| Angular rotation of iris scale | 78° | 78° | 78° | 78° | 78° |
| Min. marked object distance | 250 mm | 350 mm | 500 mm | 800 mm | 800 mm |
| 10 in | 13 in | 20 in | 3 ft | 3 ft | |
| Close focus from lens front | 139 mm | 223 mm | 394 mm | 689 mm | 663 mm |
| 5.5 in | 8.8 in | 15.5 in | 27.1 in | 26.1 in | |
| Angular rotation to MODendstop | 160° | 160° | 160° | 160° | 160° |
| Length from front of lens to lens mount (E - Mount) | 98 mm | 94 mm | 94 mm | 98 mm | 124 mm |
| 3.85 in | 3.7 in | 3.7 in | 3.85 in | 4.88 in | |
| Max. front diameter | 64 mm | 64 mm | 64 mm | 64 mm | 82 mm |
| 2.52 in | 2.52 in | 2.52 in | 2.52 in | 3.22 in | |
| Max. diagonal angle of view for FF format | 81° | 69° | 47° | 32° | 25° |
| Max. diagonal angle of view for S35 format | 62° | 50° | 34° | 22° | 17° |
| Total weight (with lens mount) | 575 g | 520 g | 500 g | 520 g | 690 g |
| 1.27 lbs | 1.15 lbs | 1.10 lbs | 1.15 lbs | 1.52 lbs | |
| Screw-in filter | M58 x 0.75 | M58 x 0.75 | M58 x 0.75 | M58 x 0.75 | M77 x 0.75 |
| Maximum format cover | Full Frame, optimised for coverage of 43.3mm |
| Focus scales | Dual Focus Non-Linear scales - Imperial and Metric, scales marked from infinity to MOD |
| Focus drive gear | 83 teeth 0.8 Metric Module |
| Iris scales | Non-Linear scale, whole and third stops marked |
| Iris drive gear | 83 teeth 0.8 Metric Module |
| Mount | E, RF*, L, M** (L-mount and M-mount sold separately) |
*RF-mount will be available soon after launch. Purchasers will be able redeem a set free of charge by following the instructions in the packaging.
**M-mount available early 2024.
IMAGING
Painting with light
The great cinematographers have always been interpreters of stories. Artists who translate the mechanical and the technical into a visual language that speaks to our soul. In an age when anybody can capture images in motion, telling emotionally impactful stories requires something different.
Making Humans Look Human • Sculpting with depth
So much of cinematic storytelling is about performance. Cooke SP3 combines resolution and colour to transmit a character’s emotion in a more believable way. The calibrated on-axis sharpness off the SP3 optical design subtly draws the viewers’ attention to the centre of the image to produce an experience subconsciously familiar to human vision.
With a subtle combination of focus fall off and breathing Cooke SP3 lenses naturally lend themselves to the feeling of shape and enable cinematographers to refine a sense of space and dimension. The SP3’s all-spherical design gifts the lenses with a gradient quality in the bokeh which presents as smooth and round. When used wide open the SP3 can offer focus fall off at the edge of the frame.
Crafted augmentation • Dynamic dimensionality
Rather than overloading the image with dramatised artefacts the SP3 series organically captures specular flaring and veiling glare allowing cinematographers to focus on their creative intent. Specialised cinematic optical coatings ensure control of flare and matched colour across the set.
A sharpness designed into the centre of the image is complimented by a gentle focus fall-off towards the frame edge offering the DOP extra dimensionality to shape the image. A core imaging effect of using the SP3 is that these lenses are sharp on the optical axis, which translates to being sharp in the centre of the image. This is complimented by a delicate fall-off towards the edge of the frame mimicking the way the human eye sees the world.
Dynamic Fall Off • 8K and Beyond
SP3 displays the classic Cooke Look characteristics and is super sharp on-axis but is designed to roll off towards the edge of frame.
SP3 is capable of the highest levels of resolution on modern digital sensors.