Cine Primes
Cine Primes
Being modest for storytelling
Being modest for storytelling
Being modest for storytelling
Over the past few years, cinema cameras have become remarkably smaller, driving the demand for compact, high-performance cine lenses. The Simera-C responds to this need by blending the design legacy of classic rangefinder lenses with DZOFILM’s cinema DNA and cutting-edge optical technology. This fusion achieves a perfect balance between the precision of still photography and the cinematic quality of motion picture imagery within an incredibly compact form.
Over the past few years, cinema cameras have become remarkably smaller, driving the demand for compact, high-performance cine lenses. The Simera-C responds to this need by blending the design legacy of classic rangefinder lenses with DZOFILM’s cinema DNA and cutting-edge optical technology. This fusion achieves a perfect balance between the precision of still photography and the cinematic quality of motion picture imagery within an incredibly compact form.
Simera-C delivers beautifully smooth bokeh and natural edge fall-off, offering exceptional dimensionality for storytelling. It captures a raw and naturalistic aesthetic with clean chromatic aberration control and human-eye-like field curvature even at wide open. The flare is subtly managed to capture highlights without overwhelming the image, keeping the storytelling pure and authentic.
Simera-C delivers beautifully smooth bokeh and natural edge fall-off, offering exceptional dimensionality for storytelling. It captures a raw and naturalistic aesthetic with clean chromatic aberration control and human-eye-like field curvature even at wide open. The flare is subtly managed to capture highlights without overwhelming the image, keeping the storytelling pure and authentic.
The floating element design throughout the Simera-C series enables a closer minimum focusing distance than most rehoused or modified rangefinder lenses. This allows filmmakers to capture greater texture and detail in close-up shots, providing enhanced creative flexibility and depth.
The floating element design throughout the Simera-C series enables a closer minimum focusing distance than most rehoused or modified rangefinder lenses. This allows filmmakers to capture greater texture and detail in close-up shots, providing enhanced creative flexibility and depth.
Fast Aperture for Cinematic Depth
Fast Aperture for Cinematic Depth
The Simera-C series includes 16mm, 21mm, 28mm, 35mm, 50mm, and 75mm focal lengths, covering everything from expansive ultra-wide perspectives to intimate telephoto framing. While the 16mm breaks new ground at T1.9 to deliver ultra-wide perspectives with near-zero distortion in a feather-light build, the rest of the lineup boasts a constant T1.5 aperture. The entire family responds fluidly to challenging light, offering an exquisite shallow depth of field that adds dramatic narrative weight and elegant subject separation to every frame. Ample light transmission easily supports high-frame-rate shooting and preserves rich tonal textures in dim environments, infusing imagery with raw emotion and poetry.
The Simera-C series includes 16mm, 21mm, 28mm, 35mm, 50mm, and 75mm focal lengths, covering everything from expansive ultra-wide perspectives to intimate telephoto framing. While the 16mm breaks new ground at T1.9 to deliver ultra-wide perspectives with near-zero distortion in a feather-light build, the rest of the lineup boasts a constant T1.5 aperture. The entire family responds fluidly to challenging light, offering an exquisite shallow depth of field that adds dramatic narrative weight and elegant subject separation to every frame. Ample light transmission easily supports high-frame-rate shooting and preserves rich tonal textures in dim environments, infusing imagery with raw emotion and poetry.
Exquisite Optics,Crafting a New Vision
Exquisite Optics,Crafting a New Vision
Through a meticulously crafted optical structure that masterfully pairs aspherical lenses, low-dispersion elements, and high-refractive-index elements, the Simera-C achieves ultra-high resolution and exceptional chromatic aberration control. Furthermore, it delivers a rigorous optical performance at 16mm with near-zero distortion and zero focus breathing, fully empowering 8K high-resolution creation across the entire lineup. The 16 pieces of aperture blades help to generate smoother, rounder bokeh while minimizing "onion rings" or irregular highlights. The soft, natural bokeh enhances clarity and subject separation, bringing a refined cinematic character to every frame.
Iris Blade
Satisfy high-resolution creation
Exquisite Optics,Crafting a New Vision
Through a meticulously crafted optical structure that masterfully pairs aspherical lenses, low-dispersion elements, and high-refractive-index elements, the Simera-C achieves ultra-high resolution and exceptional chromatic aberration control. Furthermore, it delivers a rigorous optical performance at 16mm with near-zero distortion and zero focus breathing, fully empowering 8K high-resolution creation across the entire lineup. The 16 pieces of aperture blades help to generate smoother, rounder bokeh while minimizing "onion rings" or irregular highlights. The soft, natural bokeh enhances clarity and subject separation, bringing a refined cinematic character to every frame.
Iris Blade
Satisfy high-resolution creation
High Contrast for Dramatic Depth
High Contrast for Dramatic Depth
The creamy bokeh and moderate high contrast render the layers of light and shadow with intricate delicacy, while the striking juxtaposition of sharp focus and soft defocus beautifully accentuates the subject, lending a powerful sense of three-dimensionality and spatial depth to the frame. Perfectly compatible with high-resolution digital cinema cameras, the 16mm delivers a peak center resolution of up to 85 lp/mm even when facing the rigorous demands of high-megapixel sensors. This exceptional resolving power unlocks broader dynamic range and rich cinematic textures, significantly enhancing creative latitude and flexibility in post-production.
High Contrast for Dramatic Depth
The creamy bokeh and moderate high contrast render the layers of light and shadow with intricate delicacy, while the striking juxtaposition of sharp focus and soft defocus beautifully accentuates the subject, lending a powerful sense of three-dimensionality and spatial depth to the frame. Perfectly compatible with high-resolution digital cinema cameras, the 16mm delivers a peak center resolution of up to 85 lp/mm even when facing the rigorous demands of high-megapixel sensors. This exceptional resolving power unlocks broader dynamic range and rich cinematic textures, significantly enhancing creative latitude and flexibility in post-production.
Meticulous Craftsmanship,
Vibrant Colors
Meticulous Craftsmanship,
Vibrant Colors
Simera-C utilizes advanced vacuum coating and multi-layer anti-reflective coatings to minimize reflections and suppress flaring and ghosting, delivering accurate color reproduction even in backlit conditions. The internal anodized matte-black finish keeps reflectivity below 3.5%, significantly reducing internal stray light reflections. This superior anti-glare capability ensures pristine image quality under complex lighting, capturing both highlights and shadows with impressive clarity, contrast, and depth.
Meticulous Craftsmanship,
Vibrant Colors
Simera-C utilizes advanced vacuum coating and multi-layer anti-reflective coatings to minimize reflections and suppress flaring and ghosting, delivering accurate color reproduction even in backlit conditions. The internal anodized matte-black finish keeps reflectivity below 3.5%, significantly reducing internal stray light reflections. This superior anti-glare capability ensures pristine image quality under complex lighting, capturing both highlights and shadows with impressive clarity, contrast, and depth.
Lightweight Durability, Unrestricted Mobility
Crafted from aerospace-grade aluminum alloy, the all-metal body of the Simera-C series balances high strength and lightness. Each lens weighs just 380–490g, while the 16mm measures under 7cm in length for an exceptionally compact form factor. This lightweight and compact design breaks free from the traditional constraints of cinema lenses regarding size and weight, allowing seamless use across handheld, gimbal, or drone setups. The internal dust and splash-resistant design ensures reliable performance even in the most challenging shooting environments.
380~490g
Weights
Lightweight Durability, Unrestricted Mobility
Crafted from aerospace-grade aluminum alloy, the all-metal body of the Simera-C series balances high strength and lightness. Each lens weighs just 380–490g, while the 16mm measures under 7cm in length for an exceptionally compact form factor. This lightweight and compact design breaks free from the traditional constraints of cinema lenses regarding size and weight, allowing seamless use across handheld, gimbal, or drone setups. The internal dust and splash-resistant design ensures reliable performance even in the most challenging shooting environments.
380~490g
Weights
Streamlined for Effortless Creativity
The compact design reduces reliance on heavy cinema accessories and lightens the load for filmmakers. Multiple focal lengths can be easily packed and carried, making Simera-C particularly suited for travel shoots and documentary work where mobility is key. When paired with auto-focus systems like DJI Focus Pro, operational demands and crew burden are lightened, offering enhanced agility for solo operators and small production teams.
Streamlined for Effortless Creativity
The compact design reduces reliance on heavy cinema accessories and lightens the load for filmmakers. Multiple focal lengths can be easily packed and carried, making Simera-C particularly suited for travel shoots and documentary work where mobility is key. When paired with auto-focus systems like DJI Focus Pro, operational demands and crew burden are lightened, offering enhanced agility for solo operators and small production teams.
Modular System Integration, Expanding Creative Boundaries
The ultra-compact design of the Simera-C makes it one of the few cinema lens sets compatible with the DJI Ronin 4D. When integrated with the DJI FLEX system, complex setups like low-angle, over-the-shoulder tracking, or tight interior car shots become easy to execute. This compatibility enriches the visual storytelling, enhancing the mobility, operability, and creative freedom on set.
Modular System Integration, Expanding Creative Boundaries
The ultra-compact design of the Simera-C makes it one of the few cinema lens sets compatible with the DJI Ronin 4D. When integrated with the DJI FLEX system, complex setups like low-angle, over-the-shoulder tracking, or tight interior car shots become easy to execute. This compatibility enriches the visual storytelling, enhancing the mobility, operability, and creative freedom on set.
Precision Consistency, Seamless Operation
Precision Consistency, Seamless Operation
The entire series features a 0.8 MOD gear pitch for both focus and aperture rings, ensuring compatibility with common follow focus systems and cinema accessories. The consistent gear positioning allows for lens and accessory swaps without the need for recalibration. The 28mm, 35mm, and 50mm lenses have the same length, while the 16mm, 21mm and 75mm lenses are slightly longer. With similar lengths and weights, they maintain a consistent handling feel during lens swaps, reducing the need for rebalancing on stabilizers or sliders and boosting shooting efficiency.
A 210° focus throw offers ample operating space for manual focus, while the ideal dampening ensures smoothness and stability during adjustments. This makes the focusing process much more controllable, allowing for effortless progressive focus pulls or precise shallow depth-of-field control.
The entire series features a 0.8 MOD gear pitch for both focus and aperture rings, ensuring compatibility with common follow focus systems and cinema accessories. The consistent gear positioning allows for lens and accessory swaps without the need for recalibration. The 28mm, 35mm, and 50mm lenses have the same length, while the 16mm, 21mm and 75mm lenses are slightly longer. With similar lengths and weights, they maintain a consistent handling feel during lens swaps, reducing the need for rebalancing on stabilizers or sliders and boosting shooting efficiency.
A 210° focus throw offers ample operating space for manual focus, while the ideal dampening ensures smoothness and stability during adjustments. This makes the focusing process much more controllable, allowing for effortless progressive focus pulls or precise shallow depth-of-field control.
0.8MOD
0.8MOD
Gear Pitch
Gear Pitch
210°
Focus Throw
Precision Consistency, Seamless Operation
The entire series features a 0.8 MOD gear pitch for both focus and aperture rings, ensuring compatibility with common follow focus systems and cinema accessories. The consistent gear positioning allows for lens and accessory swaps without the need for recalibration. The 28mm, 35mm, and 50mm lenses have the same length, while the 16mm, 21mm and 75mm lenses are slightly longer. With similar lengths and weights, they maintain a consistent handling feel during lens swaps, reducing the need for rebalancing on stabilizers or sliders and boosting shooting efficiency.
A 210° focus throw offers ample operating space for manual focus, while the ideal dampening ensures smoothness and stability during adjustments. This makes the focusing process much more controllable, allowing for effortless progressive focus pulls or precise shallow depth-of-field control.
0.8MOD
Gear Pitch
210°
Focus Throw
Cine-standard Design Broad Compatibility
With a maximum image circle of 43.2mm, Simera-C covers full-frame sensors and is compatible with Super 35 and APS-C formats. It’s available in native Sony E-mount and Leica M-mount options.
Cine-standard Design Broad Compatibility
With a maximum image circle of 43.2mm, Simera-C covers full-frame sensors and is compatible with Super 35 and APS-C formats. It’s available in native Sony E-mount and Leica M-mount options.
The M mount represents a significant chapter in the history of still lens evolution. Simera-C is inspired by some of the most legendary M mount rangefinder still lenses, inheriting their unique mood and texutre—a kind of mysterious atmosphere created by optic imperfections mixing with softness.
The M mount represents a significant chapter in the history of still lens evolution. Simera-C is inspired by some of the most legendary M mount rangefinder still lenses, inheriting their unique mood and texutre—a kind of mysterious atmosphere created by optic imperfections mixing with softness.
The compact size, lightweight design, and exceptional quality of the Simera-C make it the perfect tool for capturing stunning motion images in any mobile setting.
The compact size, lightweight design, and exceptional quality of the Simera-C make it the perfect tool for capturing stunning motion images in any mobile setting.
Short flange distances are the future. Designing lenses based on the M mount's flange distance of 27.8mm not only makes them significantly smaller and lighter compared to mounts with longer flange distances, like the PL mount at 52mm, but also allows for remarkably similar image quality.
Short flange distances are the future. Designing lenses based on the M mount's flange distance of 27.8mm not only makes them significantly smaller and lighter compared to mounts with longer flange distances, like the PL mount at 52mm, but also allows for remarkably similar image quality.
M-mount offers versatility comparable to PL-mount
With standard M-mount adapters, Simera-C lenses can adapt to various mirrorless cameras (E, RF, Z, L, X mounts) for cross-system use. With a locking M-ARRI adapter, they are also compatible with ARRI ALEXA Mini LF, ALEXA Mini, AMIRA and other ARRI systems. This exceptional compatibility makes it easy to work with everything from entry-level mirrorless cameras to high-end cinema rigs like DJI Ronin 4D, Sony Venice, ARRI, and more.
With standard M-mount adapters, Simera-C lenses can adapt to various mirrorless cameras (E, RF, Z, L, X mounts) for cross-system use. With a locking M-ARRI adapter, they are also compatible with ARRI ALEXA Mini LF, ALEXA Mini, AMIRA and other ARRI systems. This exceptional compatibility makes it easy to work with everything from entry-level mirrorless cameras to high-end cinema rigs like DJI Ronin 4D, Sony Venice, ARRI, and more.
The M-mount Simera-C can be adapted to ARRI cinema cameras using a third-party ARRI mount adapter. For compatibility, we recommend XPIMAGE's ARRI mount for Simera-C. This ARRI M mount is compatible with the following ARRI camera models: Alexa 35, Alexa Mini LF, Alexa Mini, and Amira.
The Simera-C(E and M) can be used with the DJI Ronin 4D by simply switching the mount of Zenmuse X9 without needing counterweights.
Refined Techniques for Superb Imagery
Refined Techniques for Superb Imagery
Each Simera-C lens undergoes rigorous quality control, crafted with micron-level precision using a combined milling process. This ensures exceptional manufacturing accuracy for each element, reducing optical aberrations like chromatic aberration and astigmatism. The entire series maintains consistent image quality, delivering uniform sharpness from center to edge, whether capturing wide-angle or telephoto scenes, meeting the demands of high-end production.
Specifications
Focal length
16 mm
21 mm
28 mm
35 mm
50 mm
75 mm
Mount
E / M
Aperture
T1.9-T16
T1.5-T16
Image Circle
∮43.2mm (FF)
Construction of Optics
15 Elements inIl Groups
13 Elements in 11 Groups
11 Elements 7 Groups
9 Elements 5 Groups
8 Elements in 6 Groups
9 Elements 8 Groups
Angle of view
(horizontal, verticall, diagonal)
96° / 73° / 106°
80° / 58° / 90°
66° / 46° / 75°
55° / 38° / 64°
38° / 26° / 45°
28° / 19° / 33°
Close Focus
(from sensor plene)
0.16m/6.3in
0.23m / 9in
0.4m / 1ft4in
0.45m / 1ft6in
0.45m / 1ft6in
0.55m / 1ft10in
Focus control
Manual (210°)
Front Dia.
∮67mm/2.64"
∮72mm/2.83"
Length
79.3 mm (E)
69.6 mm (M)
78.6mm(E)
68.8mm(M)
69.6mm(E)
59.8mm(M)
86.4mm(E)
76.6mm(M)
Iris Blade
16
Filter size
M62*0.75
M67*0.75
Weight (Product)
490g(E)
467g(M)
491g(E)
472g(M)
395g(E)
377g(M)
402g(E)
381g(M)
369g(E)
353g(M)
453g(E)
435g(M)
Accessories
Includes lens front cap, lens rear cap, back focus adjustment shims, bayonet mount screws, and screwdriver