Thypoch has unveiled its most dramatic wide-angle yet – the Simera 21mm f/1.4 Leica M lens. This new addition to the Simera lineup takes everything photographers and filmmakers love about the brand’s tactile, vintage-inspired design and blends it with cinema-born optical performance.
If the previous Simera 28mm f/1.4, 35mm f/1.4, 50mm f/1.4 and 75mm f/1.4 primes leaned into the everyday utility of fast full-frame glass, the 21mm offers something different: an expansive, expressive field of view with all the intimacy and subject separation you'd expect from a portrait lens.
The 21mm focal length has long been a favorite of filmmakers. It opens up a scene without distorting it, making it perfect for atmosphere and storytelling.
Thypoch draws from its background in cinema lenses here, bringing that depth, control and sense of space, and translating it into a lens that’s just as at home capturing street portraits or architectural moods as it is living in a film rig.
Get close – 0.23m close – and the Simera 21mm f/1.4 offers the kind of shallow depth of field more often associated with a 50mm lens. The bokeh blooms gently, the edges remain sharp and distortion is well-managed thanks to a high-end optical formula that includes aspherical, high-refractive-index, and ED glass.
From wide-open to stopped down, it holds together with clarity and character.
Mechanically, it’s just as considered. A floating lens group keeps focus crisp at all distances, while the manual aperture ring can be switched between clicked and de-clicked, depending on whether you’re shooting stills or rolling footage.
There’s that familiar tactile nudge at 0.7m to match up with Leica M rangefinder coupling limits, and the depth-of-field scale remains elegantly functional.
Despite its 13-element design, it weighs just 427g and feels balanced on compact mirrorless bodies. Whether mounted natively to a Leica M or adapted for Sony E, Nikon Z, Canon RF, Fujifilm X or L-Mount, the Simera 21mm f/1.4 is designed to slip seamlessly into any workflow where speed, subtlety, and image quality are paramount.
The lens is available now in black or silver, priced at $999 / £750 / AU$899, and ships immediately with a square hood that matches its vintage styling. For more information, visit the Thypoch website.
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