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There are really only two lenses I still wanted Thypoch to add to the Simera-C set, and this is one of them.

This is the new Thypoch Simera-C 16mm. It gives the lineup a proper wide angle, and it’s the first Simera-C focal length that isn’t already part of the regular Simera set.

It also fixes one of the things I’ve wanted Thypoch to improve for a while: the close focus.

Thypoch sent me this and said, just go make something, they did not pay me any money, but I do get to keep this lens.

Here my thoughts on the 16mm after testing it on the Sony A7 V, the FX3, and the Nikon ZR.

I shot a lot of footage with this lens, so I’m just going to put it throughout the video. I’ve found that I love this lens for showing wide establishing shots, since it’s so small, its easy to put in a bag and take around with you. It’s also great for smaller spaces. I wanted to try to shoot an short commercial with just the 16mm, so we shot this entire thing on the Sony A7 V, the 16mm Simera-C and a small, travel tripod.

Shooting with only a wide angle lens forces you to get a little creative with camera angles, but the minimum focus on this lens made that a little easier.

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Minimum Focusing Distance

Shooting a short video only using one lens was a little difficult, but this lens was actually really versatile because thypoch improved one of my biggest gripes with the other lenses in this set, and the minimum focus distance is greatly improved on this lens.

The Thypoch Simera-C 16mm can focus 6.2 inches away from the sensor, so you can get really close to your subjects with this one. For the shot where the newspapers were falling between her ridiculous boots, I set the focus about an inch further away from minimum.

Here is a quick table of the minimum focus for each lens in the set. I absolutely love that they were able to work on minimum focus for this lens.

• 16mm: 6.2” / 16cm
• 21mm: 9.1" / 23 cm
• 28mm: 15” / 40 cm
• 35mm: 17” / 45 cm
• 50mm: 17” / 45 cm
• 75mm: 22” / 55 cm

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Price and Rental Rates

When it comes to price, Thypoch Simera-C 16mm’s are $959/lens. If you use my code "KEITHKNITTEL", you can get an extra 5% off at the Typoch store. That's about $50/lens.

Assuming the lens costs $959, and the rent from share grid for $40/lens, it would take 24 days to pay off.

Alternate take: I’ll put the lens cost and how many times you’d have to rent it on screen now. On share grid, these lenses are now going for $40/lens.

These lenses feel like they’re in a good price point to buy a few of these lenses to use on your client work, as well as personal projects - especially if you’re traveling.

Locking Adapter Is A Must with These Lenses

These lenses come in M or E mount, I think picking them up in the M-mount is the move, so you can use them on more systems than just E-mount.

To adapt the lenses though, I would recommend the thypoch M adapter.

Most cheap M mount adapters have very loose tolerances and they will have a ton of movement on the lens mount. This thypoch locking adapter fixes that issue though.

The locking adapter is really secure and I have not had any movement in these lenses using it.

I have the E and L mount versions, from when I had my l-mount pyxis 12k that I’m not sure I’m going to buy again. But I still have the adapter, so if any L-mount cameras are around, I can use the simera-c’s on them too.

Weight & Dimensions

The Thypoch Simera-C 16mm weighs 1.03 lbs

With the locking e-mount adapter: 1.21 lbs

The A7 V, adapter and lens: 2.81 lbs

50-150: 3.21 lbs

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The Thypoch Simera-C 16mm is 2.5 long by 2.6 in wide. Alittle taller than the 28 and 35, almost as tall at the 75, but not quite.

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Filter Size

Filter size on the 16mm is 62mm. These are the same as the other thypochs, minus the 75 that is 67mm filter thread.

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VND Vignetting

With wide angle lenses, vignetting with a VND is something I always think about, I’m using a 62 to 67mm setup up ring, to a peter mckinnon VND, there is no vignetting with this setup. I have mixed feelings about this VND, but I bought it like 5 years ago.

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Color Cast (Vector scope tests)

For the colors of this lens compared to other lenses in the set, here are the vector scopes you can check out. I know people hate these, but I do not know of any other way to accurately show color cast. You can pause and read into these more.

Flare

For the flare, I was surprised at how well these lenses handled the flare. It’s not washing out the entire image. I like them, but this is totally subjective.

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Bokeh

For the bokeh, there is some interesting things happening here, wide open the bokeh seems to be a little more circular than when stopping down to T2 and T2.8. Around T5.6 it starts to become round again, and then behaves how you’d think it would.

Just cruising though this bokeh test and thought that was interesting.

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Sharpness & Image Quality

Bit of a boring test, but here is the white wall test to show sharpness and vignetting.

(Check out the video for these tests, it's brief, but there are charts)

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Focus Breathing

When it comes to focus breathing, this lens does have noticable focus breathing if you’re doing large focus racks. It’s not quite as bad as some of the other tighter focal lengths, like the 75mm - but it’s still there if you’re looking for it.

I also tried a focus breathing test using apsc mode on the a7 v, and sure enough - it’s still noticable.

Thats one of my gripes about the Simera-c’s, they all have a bit of focus breathing - I think this comes from the size of the lenses, but all of them do suffer from some kind of focus breathing issues.

How I’m mostly filming, I don’t do a lot of focus racks to begin with, so I feel like I can work around that - but if you’re on a shoot where you’re doing a lot of focus racks, this could be an issue.

Conclusion

I’ve grown to really love the Thypoch Simera-C's and like seeing a new focal length added to the set. Hopefully they continue to add more to the set. I’d love to see a fast 100mm macro and a 12mm. Just saying.

I love that the minimum focusing distance is improved on this lens when compared to other lenses. I wish they could do something about the focus breathing, but that seems to be the only major downside I can see with this lens. I don’t do many focus racks, but I do find myself doing smaller focus racks sometimes. I try to keep them to a minimum with this lens, but thats the only negative I have about this lens.

This lens feels wide, but not so wide that you start to notice heavy distortion with the lens.

I love these lenses for traveling, and I’m glad to be adding the Thypoch Simera-C 16mm to my set of other Simera-c’s.

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