Ksana 21mm f3.5 Manual Focus Lens for Leica M-Mount | Full-Frame Prime Lens
Precision in Every Detail
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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Compat Models (Verified)
Leica： M262 , M240 , M10‑P , M11 , M2 , M9 ,M6 (serial number starts with 22, late‑production batch)
Potential Compat. Models (Untested)
Leica： M3 , MP , M2-M , M2-R , M1 , MD , MDa , MD-2 , M4 , M5 , M4-2 , M4-P , M6J , M6 0.85 , M6 TTL , M7 , M8 , M8.2 , M9-P , M Monochrom , M-E 220 , M-P 240 , M-A 127 , M Monochrom 246 , M-D 262 , M10 , M10-D , M-E 240 , M10 Monochrom , M10-R , M6 (2022 Re‑Issue) , M11-P , M11 Monochrom , M11-D , M-EV1
Incompatible Models
Leica： M6 Non‑TTL (SN‑prefix: 19)
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Ksana 21mm f3.5 Manual Focus Lens for Leica M-Mount | Full-Frame Prime Lens
Sale price$499.00
Regular price$549.00
A Compact Everyday Lens with a Vintage Rendering
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.
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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.
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.
Consistent Light Beautiful Depth
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.
Range finder 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 Design, Signature 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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Overall rating: 4.8 / 5 from 36 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.
Amazing lens! I love the size, rendering and the coating adds something new to the mix.
Just perfect build quality and amazing rendering 👌
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.
Love the len! Excellent performance and light weight.
I paired the Ksana with a Leica M EV1 and tested it for those gorgeous golden amber flares and sunstar.
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.
Great build, the size is perfect, I love the coating and the results on film are spectacular.
The Ksana quickly became one of my favorite lenses for wedding photography. It's 9 out of 10 perfect. Highly recommend!
It’s fine but it is not as sharp as I had hoped.
Ksana 21mm f3.5 Manual Focus Lens for Leica M-Mount | Full-Frame Prime Lens
Great lens small well made and great pictures quality
Really great lenes - I’ll be buying more…
Ksana 21mm f3.5 Manual Focus Lens for Leica M-Mount | Full-Frame Prime Lens
small, compact, perfect every day lens!!
Ksana 21mm f3.5 Manual Focus Lens for Leica M-Mount | Full-Frame Prime Lens
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!!
Ksana 21mm f3.5 Manual Focus Lens for Leica M-Mount | Full-Frame Prime Lens
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.
Ksana 21mm f3.5 Manual Focus Lens for Leica M-Mount | Full-Frame Prime Lens
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.
Great product: attention to details, innovative design touches and outstanding overall quality. The CS is top notch: responsive, helpful and generous
Ksana 21mm f3.5 Manual Focus Lens for Leica M-Mount | Full-Frame Prime Lens
Fantastic little lens - even works nicely on medium format.
Ksana 21mm f3.5 Manual Focus Lens for Leica M-Mount | Full-Frame Prime Lens
Great service and a fantastic lens! Thank you Thypoch and keep up the good work!!
Fantastic little gem of a lens :-)
Great lens!
Got this lens to try the 21mm on my leica m11, i must say it didn't disappoint. Sharp lens and nice color rendition
Excellent lens. I use it for indoor and tight spaces.
It’s fine
I love it!
the so called "klick" att 0.7 m can't feel it.....
Love the look of the lens, and the photo it produce.
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!
Appears and works as described
Build quality is excellent and so is the image quality.
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 ! :-(
A great lens for use on digital M8 and M9. Great rendering and I like the wide angle view.
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.
Premium, compact built with superb image quality!
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