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Cooke 5/I Prime lenses & Sony F35 camera research

Goal : To find technical settings to match Cooke 5/i lenses and Sony F35. Question : Is it possible to have a "Cooke look" with a high end digital camera ?
The solutions :

  • A new Log Gamma curve : the HDS 400, softer curve with less chroma than the Sony one. The curve provides one more stop and a half of latitude in the shadows without noise. It leads the F35 to 12 1/2 stops of dynamic range.
  • Camera menu settings to harmonize the sharpness depending on subjects and location

Thanks to :
Les Zellan, Robert Howard, Mark Gerchman, & Geoffrey P. Chappell (and his wife) and the team of Cooke optics
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Andrew & Trevor Steele and the team of : Emit France
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Special thanks to famous shakesperian actor Trevor Steele

Nicolas Polacchi & Olivier Garcia (Gamma curves designer) HD systems

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Special thanks to Rip Hampton O’Neil, Technical Superior Commission (CST) R & D manager for his clever digital analysis chart. CST</a
Its large numbers of grey and colour levels(including mid-tones) allows quickly :

  • To see any problem of camera artefacts.
  • To create valuable Lut’s

Olivier Duval, Tommaso Vergallo, Laurent Desbruères, Jean-François Morette

Digimage Cinema
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François Paturel : Camera operator & D.I.T., Leonard Rollin : FOCUS PULLER - Alain Gauthier : Technical manager Transpacam