Mir (lens)

MC Mir-47M 2,5/20mm

Mir 1W 2,8/37mm

Mir (Russian: Мир) is a Soviet wide angle prime lens series with focal lengths varying from 20 to 37 mm with 5-7 elements.

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.
• (Russian) Mir-1, Mir-1, Mir-5, Mir-6, Mir-10, Mir-20, Mir-24, Mir-46, Mir-47, Mir-47, Mir-51