Canon D7 and MIR 24M 2/35 mm Lens Test
Test shots with a Russian MIR 2/35 mm lens. This works as a very good prime on the Canon 7D. This lens is the KMZ variant which is based off the Zeiss Flektogon. I got this lens from artemstore on eBay. http://stores.ebay.com/artemstore Great service from a very friendly business in Ukraine.
The 24M is a short throw lens with coated or multi-coated optics for SLR cameras.
The Krasnogorsk plant produced a threaded version of the lens, PO "Zavod Arsenal" (the plant "Vega") released a bayonet version of the MC Mir-24H same scheme, but a different design. The lens was recommended for architectural and landscape photography, as well as for shooting in tight places with low light. With is 35 mm focal length it works as 56 mm lens on APS-C cameras such as the Canon D7.
The lens itself is based off Zeiss' Flektogon design.
The Flektogon was the first wide angle lens of its kind with short focal length and long back focal length. It was introduced in 1950 by VEB Carl Zeiss Jena, the East German Zeiss optics plant. The first variant was the Flektogon 2.8/35 for 35mm SLRs. Later other 35mm variants were made: 4/25, the remarkable fast 2.4/35 and the first super-wide angle lens 4/20. Medium format variants were made for the Pentacon Six: 2.8/65 and 4/50.
Other lens makers like Carl Zeiss Oberkochen (West Germany) made similar leses like the Distagon. It's a rare case of an eastern product copied in the West. Production of the manual-focusing Flektogon ended in 1991 whilst the Distagons are still in the market. A new variant by Carl Zeiss is the autofocus Flektogon 1:3,5/35mm for the Rolleiflex 6008 AF.
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