3" Cooke Speed Panchro f/3 cine camera lens
Taylor-Hobson
Category
Photographic technology
Date
1920 - 1930
Materials
Metal, Glass, Brass, Aluminium
Measurements
58 x 133 x 158 mm
Place of origin
Leicester
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1525099.2
Summary
3" Cooke Speed Panchro f/3 cine camera lens Consists of an aluminium standard marked 445 and 3", attached is the metal tube of the lens assembly which is cut away to reveal the graduations for distance from 0 to infinity in yards. The next ring of the lens of the lens is the control for f stop, the graduations from 2 to 32 are engraved on the black metal ring, also "made by Taylor-Hobson England Pats Brit 377537 461304 Prev 34362/37 U.S. 1955591" which connects to a lens hood of unknown metal. The front of the lens is engraved "Cooke Speed Panchro Lens no 248123 75mm f/2"
Provenance
Part of the Fenton Collection. A gift from British Film Institute in 2017. From 1986-1999, part of BFI collection for the Museum of the Moving Image. BFI purchased collection in 1986 from James Fenton's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-1986
Makers and roles
Taylor-Hobson, manufacturer