Cooke S4 Lens Set

The Cooke S4 lenses have been the unmistakable workhorses of Hollywood ever since their highly anticipated introduction in 1998. Being the true spiritual successors of the original Cooke Panchro series, the S4 lenses carry over the signature Cooke Look with pearly bokeh, tactile textures, and superb skin tone/color rendition without the optical unpredictabilities and mechanical unreliabilities of the Speed Panchro lenses.

As one of the most laureled lens sets in Hollywood, it would be physically exhausting to list all the projects lensed with the S4s that went on to be nominated for or win Academy Awards. Deakins, Lachman, Kaminski, Fraser, Yeoman - the fan club is quite a large and notable one. Toy Story 4’s painstaking effort of digitally mapping the S4 lenses’ optical characteristics for the use in an animated film is emblematic of the status S4 lenses hold in the realm of cinematography.