April 2020

A collection of Cooke Speed Panchro motion picture camera lenses

Taylor, Taylor and Hobson Cooke Speed Panchro Lenses

Taylor, Taylor, and Hobson, makers of the famed Cooke lenses, was founded in 1886 in Leicester, England by brothers William and Thomas Taylor. The company originally produced optical instruments and did not begin making photographic lenses until 1894. Dennis Taylor (no relation to the Taylor brothers), optical manager of the York-based astronomical telescope maker T. […]

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A Tripod Un-crating

A Tripod Un-crating

This week I thought we would share an unboxing. Well really an un-crating? A visitor to our website offered me this crate of nearly 40 tripods and pan tilt heads. After letting the crate sit in quarantine over the weekend, we were finally able to unpack it on Monday. Inside we found an eclectic collection

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