Specifications of Kiev/Arsat/Arax lenses.
All that lenses was developed in USSR and made for medium format (6x6) cameras only.
Most of them was made in 2 mounts - for Kiev-88/Salut screw mount and for Kiev-C (Kiev-60, Arax, P-Six) mount.
Exceptions: Tair-33, Industar-26, Mir-3 was made in screw mount only.
They were produced with multilayer coating of all optical elements. The quality of coating grew from year to year.
The quality of the glass and optical elements depended on the manufacturer of these elements.
Optical elements were manufactured at the 'Arsenal' plant directly and at related factoryes in Ukraine and Russia.
Lens name
|
Focal length, mm |
Aperture range |
Angle of view degrees |
Minimum focus: m |
Elements/ groups |
Resolution, line/mm center/edge |
Filter size, mm |
Weight kg |
Zodiak-8* |
30 |
3.5-22 |
180 |
0.3 |
10/6 |
60/14 |
38 |
1.1 |
MIR-26* |
45 |
3.5-22 |
83 |
0.5 |
8/7 |
45/16 |
82 |
0.65 |
PCS ARSAT/ARAX 45 |
45 |
3.5-22 |
83-98 |
0,5 |
8/7 |
69/31 |
82 |
0.75 |
PCS ARSAT/ARAX 55 |
55 |
4.5-22 |
69-84 |
0.5 |
9/7 |
98/71 |
72 |
0.85 |
PCS ARSAT/ARAX 65 |
65 |
3.5-22 |
66-78 |
0.5 |
6/5 |
73/51 |
72 |
0.75 |
MIR-3* |
65 |
3.5-22 |
66 |
0.8 |
6/4 |
40/14 |
88 |
0.58 |
MIR-38* |
65 |
3.5-22 |
66 |
0.5 |
6/5 |
42/20 |
72 |
0.55 |
INDUSTAR-29 (Vitoflex)* |
80 |
2.8-22 |
53 |
0.9 |
4/3 |
27/12 |
58 |
0.34 |
VEGA-12* |
90 |
2.8-22 |
47 |
0.6 |
5/4 |
47/22 |
58 |
0.39 |
MC VOLNA-3 (Arsat, Arax) |
80 |
2.8-22 |
45 |
0.6 |
6/5 |
50/20 |
62 |
0.38 |
MC VEGA-28 |
120 |
2.8-22 |
36 |
1.2 |
6/5 |
50/30 |
62 |
0.48 |
KALEINAR-3* |
150 |
2.8-16 |
28 |
1.8 |
4/4 |
48/32 |
82 |
1.15 |
MC TELEAR-5 |
250 |
5.6-32 |
18 |
2.5 |
5/5 |
55/40 |
62 |
0.86 |
JUPITER-36* |
250 |
3.5-22 |
19 |
3.5 |
4/3 |
45/25 |
82 |
1.55 |
TAIR-33* |
300 |
4.5-22 |
15 |
3.0 |
4/3 |
25/18 |
88 |
1.75 |
ARSAT APO |
500 |
5.6-45 |
9 |
5.0 |
8/6 |
47/28 |
95 |
1.64 |
ARAX-500 |
500 |
5.6 fixed |
5 |
2.2 |
mirror |
49 |
105 |
1.65 |
ZM-3B |
600 |
8 fixed |
7.5 |
6.0 |
mirror |
57 |
52 |
2.64 |
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[*] - Produced in several types of coating MC (multi coated) or single coated.
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