Mir (lens)

Mir (Russian: Мир) is a Soviet wide-angle prime lens series with focal lengths varying from 12 to 65 mm with 5-7 elements.

MC Mir-47M 2,5/20mm

Mir 1B 2,8/37mm

The first variant was the Mir-1 and won the Grand Prix at Expo '58 in Brussels. Its construction was derived from the Flektogon lens by Carl Zeiss. The first element in this lens is in fact a disperser meniscus to reduce vignette effects when photographing with an open diaphragm.

External links

Flektogon

Russian sources

D.S. Volosov, «Photographic optics (theory, design basics, optical characteristics)», 2nd revised edition, Moscow, «Iskusstvo» Publishing House, 1978.
(in Russian) Mir-1, Mir-5, Mir-6, Mir-10, Mir-20, Mir-24, Mir-46, Mir-47, Mir-51,

Mir-61

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