Mir (lenses)

The Mir (Russian: Мир) series of lenses are Russian camera lenses made by various manufacturers in the former Soviet Union.

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.

The lens was available in two versions - Mir-3B has the Pentacon Six mount and is meant to be used with Kiev 6x medium format cameras when Mir-3V had the Hasselblad mount compatible with Kiev 8x family of cameras.

Mir-10 is a wide angle lens made for SLR cameras produced in the Soviet Union.

Mir-11 is a wide-angle lens designed for 16 mm cinema cameras.