LENS TEST - Cooke 18-100mm T3

This is a lens test of our vintage Cooke Varotal 18-100mm T3 zoom. The purpose was to demonstrate the lens' performance and illustrate its characteristics including: color palette, contrast, sharpness, vignetting, distortion, breathing, close-focus, lens flares and bokeh. The test was shot on a RED Epic Dragon and recorded at 6K HD. Since the lens was designed to cover Super 35mm film, this test illustrates how the lens performs beyond what it was intended to handle.

The test was conducted in a controlled environment. Only incandescent lighting was used, and the lights were not dimmed. The purpose was to produce the most accurate colors possible. Images were recorded and exported in DRAGONcolor2 and REDgamma4 with no corrections made, including no color grading and no sharpening. Images were captured at ISO 500 (to get cleaner shadow detail), and at the lowest compression possible with the camera balanced to 3200K.

NOTES: The water bottle was placed at minimum focus distance. We apologize for not having the color chart and focus chart in the tests for any of our zoom lenses and we only shot them wide-open. We had a lot of glass to test and we simply ran out of time.

LENS TESTED AT

18mm T3

50mm T3

100mm T3

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