90.6° Ultra-Wide Angle for Landscape & Street Photography Thypoch Ksana 21mm f/3.5 M-Mount Lens delivers an expansive 90.6° ultra-wide field of view, making it an ideal 21mm wide-angle lens for Leica M cameras. Perfect for travel photography, street photography, architecture photography, landscape photography, and interior photography, it captures immersive scenes with exceptional depth and perspective.
Ultra-Lightweight & Compact M-Mount Lens Weighing only 131g (0.28 lbs) and measuring just 27mm (1 inch) in length, the Ksana 21mm is one of the most compact Leica M-mount lenses available. Its lightweight design makes it the perfect travel lens, street photography lens, and everyday carry lens for photographers seeking maximum portability without sacrificing image quality.
Gold Coating for Superior Anti-Glare Performance Featuring Thypoch's premium gold-coated optical design and an advanced 8-element, 6-group construction, this full-frame manual focus lens effectively minimizes ghosting, flare, and unwanted reflections. Whether shooting under direct sunlight, city night lights, or indoor window light, it delivers crisp contrast, vibrant colors, and true-to-life image quality.
Precise Detail Capture for Street Photography With a close focusing distance of 0.5m, rangefinder coupling, and an ergonomic crescent-shaped focus tab, the Ksana 21mm enables smooth and accurate focusing. Ideal for street photography, documentary photography, food photography, environmental portraits, and everyday storytelling, it helps photographers capture decisive moments with confidence.
Full-Frame Coverage for Versatile Shooting Scenarios Designed specifically as a full-frame M-mount lens, the Ksana 21mm is fully compatible with Leica M11, Leica M10, Leica M-A, Leica MP, Leica M240, and other M-mount rangefinder cameras. From sweeping landscapes and architectural scenes to travel adventures and daily snapshots, this compact wide-angle lens delivers premium optical performance and classic rangefinder shooting experience.
Note: The lens hood is not included. Please purchase it separately as an optional accessory.
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Leica M-mount:M2,M6,M9,M 240,M10-P,M11
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Ksana 21mm f3.5 Manual Focus Lens for Leica M-Mount | Full-Frame Prime Lens
Named after the Sanskrit Kṣaṇa (क्षण /ˈksɑːnə/), the Ksana Series represents the eastern concept of the "instant". At roughly 0.018 seconds—nearly a 1/60s shutter speed—a kṣaṇa is the duration of a sudden enlightenment. If photography captures this singular "now," can these frozen moments inspire the future? Perhaps photography is simply the art of the eternal instant.
The Ksana series is ultra-light and compact, making these lenses the perfect "everyday carry" and capturing precise, fleeting moments. Furthermore, each lens is equipped with a unique vintage coating, offering distinct characteristics that provide photographers with a continuous flow of inspiration.
Capture a Fleeting Inspiration
As the first lens of the Ksana series, the 21mm f/3.5 blends classic aesthetics with vintage rendering. Its compact all-aluminum body is built for effortless daily carry and perfectly complements the Leica aesthetic. Featuring Epoch Coating 73, it recreates the iconic 1970s golden-amber flare, infusing every frame with a poetic atmosphere and boundless creative inspiration.
Ultra-Compact Seamless Control
The Ksana 21mm f/3.5 keeps things light and agile. Measuring just 27mm from mount to front edge and weighing only 131g, it fits easily into any bag and stays comfortable in hand—even during long handheld sessions. Its understated profile avoids drawing attention, letting you work quietly and capture genuine, unposed moments. Highly portable and discreet, it's made for street, travel, and documentary photography.
Modern Craftsmanship Timeless Imagery
Retaining vintage soul with exceptional sharpness, this compact design delivers high resolution with minimal chromatic aberration and distortion. The Ksana 21mm features an optical design incorporating 1 aspherical lens, 2 extra-low dispersion (ED) lenses, and 3 high refractive index (HRI) lenses, effectively suppressing aberrations for superior image quality.
With 9 aperture blades, it produces stunning sun-stars at f/4. By blending retro flare with high-fidelity performance, it creates a truly unique creative signature.
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Wide Perspective, Deep Dimensionality
The Ksana 21mm f/3.5 wide-angle lens offers an 80.2° horizontal field of view on full-frame cameras, expanding the sense of space and adding dramatic impact. With a 0.5m minimum focusing distance, photographers can get closer to their subjects, creating a powerful sense of spatial depth.
Rangefinder Focusing with a 0.7m Tactile Focus Reminder
Maintaining the classic Leica rangefinder charm, this lens ensures precision for film and digital photographers alike. A tactile reminder at 0.7m alerts you when the rangefinder uncouples, signaling a switch to EVF focusing to prevent out-of-focus shots and ensure reliable results.
Timeless DesignSignature Lens Body
The Ksana 21mm f/3.5 features a vintage-inspired body with a scalloped focus ring and crescent-shaped tab. Ergonomic contours align with your fingers for a comfortable grip and intuitive handling, ensuring stable, precise control even during fast focusing. Available in two elegant finishes, Silver for a bold, mechanical presence, and Black for a timeless, understated look.
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Customer Reviews
Overall rating: 4.9 / 5 from 35 reviews.
Love it! Small, light, well built, good image quality
Beautiful rendering, it's so small and lightweight, will be coming out with me regardless of what I'm out shooting, simply because it takes up no space or weight and having an wide option at a moment's notice is invaluable.
The 21mm F3.5 Ksana lens is beautifully made. Very solid and well finished. The lens is tiny compared to many lenses made today. The deep knurling and tab on the on the focusing ring make focusing the lens quite easy.
The optics are very good, with corner to corner sharpness when stopped down a bit, decent flare control, and no apparent colour fringing. It works well with my Nikon Z-system camera. The only downside optically is light falloff that persists when the lens is stopped down. But that can be corrected with software.
Overall, I am very satisfied with this lens. I recommend it to anyone who is looking for a well made, small super-wide lens.
Very compact. Light and easy to use.
Image is very sharp but with some character. The warm lens glow appears sometimes, but is not very prominent or distracting.
The lens gives me a high sense of quality in both optics and build.
Shipping was fast and superb packaging.
Too early to really comment, I’ve only had it a short time, however my initial photos from using it are extremely encouraging . With my leica m-ev1 I can see the whole picture, something which would require an additional viewfinder for any other M camera. Stunning!!
This 21mm focuses as close as 50cm, and its unique coating gives images a distinctive look that really stays with you. It retains plenty of detail even when shot wide open. I never used to carry a 21mm very often, but this lens is so compact that I now find myself leaving it on my camera most of the time.
I love this little lens! The sharpness and character that I get from both black-and-white and images is exquisite. It is partnered beautifully with my Fujifilm X-Pro2 and creates stunning images as part of my street photography.
I like the compact size and weight and as well the quality of the photos, as well the lens can produce Sun stars and has some charming lens flare.
Price value is excellent!
Thank you for the fast execution.a great lens : my firsts shots are very promising and I can’t wait to use it more in the streets ! When getting really close it gives an amazing immersion feeling ! Love it !
Just one thing (reason for not giving the highest ranking): in various articles it was mentionned that there is a tactile feeling on the focus know when reaching the near distance (below 70cm limit). My lens does not have it at all. As i shoot lot in analog (M6), this is a real pity ! :-(
The lens’s exclusive Epoch 73 special coating truly delivers a tonal quality unlike ordinary modern lenses – with a subtle warm glow in the highlights, the frame boasts richer depth and mood, rather than that sterile, harsh high-contrast look.
It feels virtually weightless when mounted on a Leica M-series body, with a solidly crafted all-metal build. You can carry it all day for street photography, travel and documentary shooting with zero strain.