(Leicester, UK) Cooke Optics Ltd., the premier manufacturer of precision lenses for the motion picture industry, and Thales Angenieux, the leader in the design and development of the most prestigious zoom lenses in the film world, will announce an exciting working partnership at NAB 2010. Both companies have impressive track records for innovation and development

... Now you can put real cinema lenses on your 7D -- Zeiss, Optimo, Cooke, etc.  And the cost to mod your camera...$3000. The mod involves yanking out ... warranty.  You will never be able to use your camera again as anything other than a filmmaking tool with expensive lenses.  So this is probably what you should do to your SECOND 7D. I used a HotRod PL mount on a ...

... com modified 7D PL mount that you can read all about here. Jeremy Thomas from Raw Works cut the short and colour graded it and did a great job on it. The crew was minimal about 4 of us in total. It was shot using 3 lenses. Two Cooke S4s… 25mm and 100m and a PL modified Tokina 11-16mm for the big wide.”