Cooke 18-100 or 20-100!!!

[luigivaltulini]

Hello guys,
someone still have some R3d to share this lens zoom cooke 18-100 or 20-100?
Shot on Dragon or MX?

thank you

luigi

 

[Marcus Friedlander]

Interested as well!

 

[Mike Simpson]

I shot with the 18-100 last week on a commercial. Really beautiful lens. Hadnt used the lens in years but as soon as I did I fell in love all over again. Hard vignettes after 5k, and theres a soft vignette even in 5k, although easy enough to correct away in color.

 

[Kevin Marshall]

Working on a feature with heavy use of the 20-100 right now. Same notes as Mike regarding vignetting. Wide open is pretty bloomed/soft. We've also had to dial in a -3 tint to account for some extra green, and - 300K on the white balance relative to our mini S4s. But that could also just be our specific lens. Not sure if I have any stills that can be posted at the moment.

 

[Mike Simpson]

yeah i was shooting the 18-100 along side a set of baltars and found the 18-100 cooke pretty noticeably cooler, lower contrast. definitely also soft wide open but not in an unpleasing sort of way, could be totally acceptable depending on the project...

 

[David W. Jones]

The 18-100 is a little sharper wide open than the 20-100. They both even up at the f4-5.6 split. Great lenses for shooting older women.

 

[Jeff Kilgroe]

Loved my 18-100 while I had it and I still miss that lens. Found that I just was not using it due to size and weight as I'm more mobile these days and often a one man operation. As others have pointed out, there is noticeable porthole or vignetting beyond 5K or so. I have not shot with the lens on Dragon, only on MX sensor (RED One and EPIC), so you will gain a bit more pixel area before the vignette sets in on Dragon due to the slightly smaller pixels. Figure you'll be closer to 5.5K on Dragon before it really sets in. Either way it's easily correctable, if that's what you want, I rather liked the look. And so have many cinematographers over the years. The lens design is older, designed to cover 35mm Academy or similar format, so S35 shows the vignetting more prominently, just as we see on 5K+ RED sensors.

Most of what I have shot with the lens was RED One footage. Once the move to EPIC was made, I moved away from most of the physically larger lenses. I can see if I have some 5K EPIC-MX clips around that don't require me to dive into older backup tapes. Probably don't have any, but I'll look.

 

[luigivaltulini]

thank you guys,
Thanks Jeff, if you find some r3d to Share would be useful
I was thinking of buying this zoom, I like the look cooke.
I guess the new Helium sensor could turn 6 / 7k and have a very good image.
I see that you all love this lens, although huge.
Thanks for your information

 

[Mark Toia]

One of the best ZOOMs I ever owned. 18-100

 

[Bill Underhill]

Loved my 18-100 while I had it and I still miss that lens. Found that I just was not using it due to size and weight...

Yes, this exactly. Beautiful image from this lens, but it's a monster that will throw your back out with any hand-held work. Prefer the 18-100 over the 20-100 - sorry, can't give you any technical reasons. It just has more of that delicious Cooke-Look.