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TLS Re-Houses
Old Cooke Glass

A set of Cooke Speed Panchros re-housed by True Lens Services

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or around 18 months, True Lens
Services has been working on a
project to re-house a complete set
of Series II and III Cooke’s Speed
Panchro Lenses (seven lenses in
all) from 18mm to 100mm.
With a range of modern highdefinition cameras using the popular
PL mount system, the venerable
Speed Panchro lens sets still out
there can now be brought up to a
modern specification.
One of the challenges of the
project was the variety of different
mountings used for the Cooke
lenses, as TLS Director Colin
Sanders explains: “We strip away
the whole outer housing – the
original one is not at all standard –
they can be in all sorts of different
formats for use on projectors,
enlargers, cameras. If they needed
a lens then a Cooke lens was stuck
on there because of the quality of
them at the time.”
The mounts commonly included
Arri Standard, C mount, Cameflex,
and a plain thread, but some lens
sets feature bespoke internal
optical mounts that mean slight
modifications have to be carried
out as the lenses can have marked
differences depending on the
intended application.
“The standard range that we set
out to do was the 18mm, 25mm,
32mm, 40mm, 50mm, 75mm and
100mm lenses – from T2.2 up to
T2.8. Some of the Series I lenses
are similar to the Series II and III, but

other aren’t,” said Sanders.
Some of the lenses are over 40
years old and Sanders puts many
of the minor variations down to
the tooling used such as chasing
lathes and manual equipment
of the period.
The initial run of lenses saw the
production of 20 re-housing sets
and a complete set of prototype
re-housed lenses were on display
at NAB – appearing somewhat like
the Cooke S4 range. Since then
another 20 re-housing sets have
been prepared, with True Lens
Services workshops taking about
a week-and-a-half to re-house a
complete set.
“We are working on the Series I
18mm, 28mm and 32mm lenses.
So hopefully by IBC we will have
something else to show people,”
said Saunders.
“We think there are thousands of
these lenses in people’s attics and
cellars. Looking at the prices of the
second-hand ones, they have gone
through the roof.” Sanders said that
this had been attributed in part to
the rehousing work.
“At the minute we are getting
enquiries faster than we can get
them out the door – which is
good news for us. The waiting
list is growing all the time.” He
adds that the company is looking
at increasing the effort on the
re-housing work to keep pace
with the demand.
With the appearance of a
modern PL-mount lens and a
precision robust lens mechanism
capable of better withstanding
the torque generated by modern
lens drive systems, the re-housing
provides a path to the sought after
‘Cooke look’.


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InNEWS: Panasonic Announces AK-HC3500A Camera
InNEWS: Shotoku Elevates Newscasting for KETK-TV
InFOCUS: Camera Links – Following All the Vital Action
InTECH: Fischer Connections Solutions for Broadcast
InMEDIA: Delivering Anytime Content on Cable
InMEDIA: Screen – High Definition Subtitling and Beyond
InSOUND: DPA’s D:Dicate Recording Microphone Range
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