Mir-67 35mm f/2.8 PCS

Arsenal · Nikon F · 1990

via machine translation — corrections welcome

Also known as: Mir-67N · Mir 67 · MC Mir-67N · PCS MC Mir-67N · PCS Mir-67N · PKS MC Mir-67 · ПКС МС Мир-67Н · Мир-67Н · PCS Arsat H 2.8/35 · PCS Arsat N 2.8/35 · PCS Arsat-N 2.8/35 · Arsat 35mm f2.8 PCS · Arsat PCS 35mm · PCS Arsat 35mm · Arsat H 35mm shift · Arsat N 35mm shift · Arsat-N 35mm shift · Arsat 35mm shift · Arsat N 35 2.8 shift · Arsat 35mm f2.8 shift · MC Arsat 35mm shift · Arax 35mm f2.8 tilt shift · Arax 35mm tilt shift · Arax 2.8/35mm tilt shift · Arax S&T 35mm · Photex 35mm f2.8 tilt shift · Photex 35mm tilt shift · Photex 2,8/35 mm S&T

Variants & identification

Variant	Mount	Years	Serial ranges	Production
PCS MC Mir-67N (ПКС МС Мир-67Н)	Nikon F (Arsenal 'Н' bayonet of the Kiev-17/19/20)	—	—	'Limited runs' at Arsenal (Abramov); no figure published
PCS Arsat H 2.8/35 (Arsat-N)	Nikon F (Arsenal 'Н' bayonet of the Kiev-17/19/20)	—	—	—
Arax / Photex 2.8/35 Tilt & Shift (S&T)	Nikon F, Canon EF, Sony/Minolta A, Pentax K or M42, the mount chosen when ordering from Arax	—	—	—

The first year is soft. Abramov, the fullest source, gives no date; 1990 is the year Lens-DB attaches to its Mir-67N entry, and it is consistent with Abramov's filing of the lens under its Soviet name. Digital Camera Watch shows the lens still in production in December 2005 under the Arsat name. None of these sources gives a dated serial number or a last year.
The figures differ by source. Weight: 0.55 kg (Abramov, and Arax for its tilt version) against 495 g (Kamerastore, for a lens it sold) and 450 g (Allphotolenses, for the Arax tilt version). Size: 73 × 79 mm (Abramov) against 80 × 77 mm (Kamerastore), neither saying which figure is the length. Field: 64°/84° (Abramov, which reads as unshifted and shifted) against 67° (Arax's table). Aperture blades: six (Kamerastore, shift lens) against eight (Allphotolenses, tilt version). Arax's tilt-and-shift table also gives a resolving power of 45 lines/mm at the centre and 30 at the edge, the same figures Allphotolenses prints.
Other mounts are not settled. Abramov records only the 'Н' bayonet in production, and the 'К' bayonet as an unconfirmed KMZ plan. Kamerastore has listed a 'Kiev 35mm f2.8 Arsat PCS M' as a Canon FD lens, without a description, and Uwe Ohse's list of shift lenses says Arsat lenses were offered in Nikon F, Canon EF and FD, Minolta, Contax/Yashica, Olympus OM, Leica R, M42 and Pentax K according to the Brenner catalogue, warning that the mount information is likely to be wrong, incomplete or misleading. Ohse also notes that Arsat lenses were often relabelled Kievusa, B.I.G. or Zenit. None of these has a variant row until a physical example is documented.
Digital Camera Watch's warning about Arsenal's Nikon-type bayonet applies here: it is close to Nikon AI but not fully compatible, and Soviet-era Arsenal lenses are prone to jamming on bodies such as the Nikon FA, F-301 and F4. The current-production Arsat lenses had the problem cleared, Maruhashi wrote, but he advised against forcing one onto a camera.

How to tell them apart (expand)

A 35mm f/2.8 shift lens for the Kiev-19 and other Nikon-mount bodies: the optical block slides up to 11 mm off-axis on a micrometer screw and the whole assembly rotates through 360°
Large for a 35mm lens: a 62 mm filter thread and 495–550 g, against the 58 mm and 320 g Digital Camera Watch gives for the ordinary 'Н'-bayonet MC Mir-24N 35mm f/2
Manual preset aperture, f/2.8 to f/22, with no automatic stop-down (Abramov; Arax: 'manual aperture control')
Not the PC-Nikkor 35mm f/2.8, which is a different lens, nor the Hartblei 35mm Super-Rotator; the Arsat 45, 55 and 65 mm shift lenses are medium-format lenses in the Pentacon Six mount

PCS MC Mir-67N (ПКС МС Мир-67Н):

The Soviet name: ПКС МС «Мир-67», where ПКС stands for перспективная коррекция смещением, perspective correction by shift, and МС for multicoating. Abramov gives it as PKS MC Mir-67 in Latin; Western sellers write PCS
Arsenal's 'Н' bayonet, the Nikon-type mount of the Kiev-17, 19, 19M and 20; the Н is the Cyrillic letter for Latin N
A micrometer screw moves the optical block parallel to the film by up to 11 mm, and the block turns through 360° with click stops every 30°
Preset aperture: the aperture ring is pulled back towards the camera to choose the stop

PCS Arsat H 2.8/35 (Arsat-N):

'ARSAT' in Latin letters in place of the Soviet name. The H is the Cyrillic Н, so the same lens is listed as 'Arsat H', 'Arsat N' and 'Arsat-N'; Digital Camera Watch printed it as PCS ARSAT-N 2.8/35
Shift only, no tilt: a black metal barrel that turns on its base (Kamerastore). A window in the mounting flange shows 11 at 0° and 180°, 8 at 30°, 90°, 150°, 210°, 270° and 330°, and 7 at 60°, 120°, 240° and 300°, as an owner on MFLenses recorded his
Those figures fall from 11 to 7 as the shift turns from the short side of the frame towards the long side and the diagonal, which another MFLenses member explained by the frame's 24, 36 and 43 mm dimensions; they read as the usable shift in each direction

Arax / Photex 2.8/35 Tilt & Shift (S&T):

Tilt as well as shift. Arax gives 11 mm of shift, ±8° of tilt at 90° to the shift, and 360° rotation locking at 12 positions
Branded PHOTEX on the copy photographed for Wikimedia Commons in 2008, which its photographer captioned 'a.k.a. ARAX, ARSAT, etc.'; Arax sells it under its own name, and Allphotolenses lists it as the MC ARAX 35 mm f/2.8 Tilt & Shift
Arax made each lens in a fixed mount, so the mount on the back is the one it was ordered in; Arax says its older lenses fouled the flash housing of Nikon bodies when rotated and that the newer ones turn freely on a D70, D90 and D200

PCS MC Mir-67N (ПКС МС Мир-67Н): Abramov files the lens under Arsenal as ПКС МС «Мир-67», 2,8/35, with 'КМЗ-?' beside the maker's name: unconfirmed information has KMZ planning to make it with the Pentax-type 'К' bayonet, but what was actually produced came from Arsenal, in limited runs, with the 'Н' bayonet. He gives 24 × 36 mm coverage, a field of 64° (84° with the block shifted), 11 elements in 8 groups, f/2.8–22, 0.3 m closest focus, a 62 × 0.75 mm filter thread, overall dimensions of 73 × 79 mm and 0.55 kg. He gives no date.
PCS Arsat H 2.8/35 (Arsat-N): After the Soviet Union ended, Arsenal sold its lenses as ARSAT, a name made from the plant's own (Digital Camera Watch, 2005). Maruhashi Kaoru's December 2005 survey of Ukrainian and Russian Nikon-mount lenses for Digital Camera Watch lists the PCS ARSAT-N 2.8/35 among Arsenal products in current production (with a general caveat that the current lenses in his table were not necessarily being made all the time), at about US$210 in Ukraine and about ¥40,000 in Japan; these were the local and Japanese retail prices he gave, which he said moved with exchange rates, not a factory list price. Arax in Kyiv has sold the shift-only lens for Nikon as the PCS MC ARSAT 2.8/35mm at a dealer price of US$379 (shown out of stock on its page in 2026), with 11 mm of shift and a 360° rotating plate. Kamerastore gives 11 elements in 8 groups, 0.3 m, six blades, 80 × 77 mm and 495 g for a lens it sold. An owner on MFLenses in 2013 found that the lens fitted his Nikon D600 snugly; another, who used one on slide film around 2003, was not pleased with the sharpness or the falloff and cropped his best picture to two-thirds because the border was so soft, while allowing that his copy may have been poor.
Arax / Photex 2.8/35 Tilt & Shift (S&T): Arax describes this as a multicoated eleven-element 35 mm f/2.8 with a Canon-type tilt-and-shift mechanism, 0.3 m closest focus, f/2.8–22, 0.55 kg, a 62 × 0.75 mm filter thread and a 67° field, designed and made in Kyiv by Arax, at a dealer price of US$549. Allphotolenses, a database built on Lens-Club.ru, says its design was borrowed from the PCS ARSAT 35 mm f/2.8 Shift; the two share eleven elements, 11 mm of shift, 0.3 m closest focus and a 62 mm thread. Allphotolenses gives 2005 as its first year and, against the figures above, eight aperture blades, 450 g and a length of 82 mm. Uwe Ohse's list of shift lenses remarks that Arax may be another name for Arsat lenses. Arax does not itself say that the lens starts life as an Arsenal shift lens.

Specifications

Formula: Eleven elements in eight groups, with an 11 mm shifting optical block
Construction: 11 elements / 8 groups
Aperture range: f/2.8–f/22
Min. focus: 0.3 m
Weight: 550 g
Filter: 62 mm (0.75 mm pitch)
Country: Ukraine
Coating: Multicoated (MC)

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History

The Mir-67 is Arsenal’s shift lens for its Nikon-mount 35mm reflexes: a 35mm f/2.8 whose optical block slides up to 11 mm off-axis, so that a building can be photographed with the camera held level and its verticals kept parallel. Abramov describes it under its Soviet name, ПКС МС «Мир-67». The ПКС stands for perspective correction by shift, and the lens has Arsenal’s ‘Н’ bayonet, which Digital Camera Watch says was made for the Kiev-17, 18, 19, 19M and 20. The block moves on a micrometer screw and turns through a full circle with stops every 30°, and the aperture is a manual preset, set by pulling the ring back towards the camera. He records that KMZ may have planned a version with the Pentax-type ‘К’ bayonet, an unconfirmed report, and that what was actually built came from Arsenal in limited runs.

The optics are eleven elements in eight groups behind a 62 mm filter thread, focusing to 0.3 m. At around half a kilogram it is far heavier than the ordinary ‘Н’-bayonet 35mm, the MC Mir-24N. After the Soviet Union ended, the same lens was sold as the PCS Arsat H 2.8/35. Sellers write that as Arsat H, Arsat N or Arsat-N, because the letter is the Cyrillic Н. Digital Camera Watch’s 2005 survey of Ukrainian Nikon-mount lenses still lists it in current production, at a street price of about US$210 in Ukraine. Arax in Kyiv has sold it for Nikon as a shift-only lens, and has sold a 35mm f/2.8 with ±8° of tilt added, in several mounts, under its own name; a copy branded PHOTEX was photographed in 2008. Allphotolenses describes the tilt-and-shift design as borrowed from the Arsat; Arax says only that it designed and made the lens in Kyiv.

A window in the base reads 11, 8 or 7 depending on which way the shift points. Owners on MFLenses read the figures as the permissible shift along the short side of the frame, the long side and the diagonal, and one pointed out that you can shift further up and down than sideways before severe falloff sets in. The same owner, who used one on slide film, was disappointed by the sharpness and falloff and found the borders soft, though he allowed that his copy may have been poor; the owner who started the thread said shifting cost him two to three stops of light. On a Nikon with a built-in flash, check that the lens turns freely without fouling the flash housing; Arax says older examples of its own tilt-and-shift lens did. Digital Camera Watch also warns that Soviet-era Arsenal bayonets can jam on bodies such as the FA, F-301 and F4, so fit one gently and do not force it. On a used lens, check that the shift screw runs smoothly over its full travel and that the rotation clicks positively.

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This history is AI-written, from the sources listed at the foot of the page. Where the record is silent it says so rather than filling the gap — but no human wrote these sentences.

Example photos

Sample photo taken with the Mir-67 35mm f/2.8 PCS — The tilt-and-shift version, branded PHOTEX (2008) — RawheaD Rex (Satoru Murata), via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)

More sample photos elsewhere

MFLenses thread 'Arsat N 35 / 2.8 Shift - some questions' (2013), with photographs of the lens shifted and pictures taken with it

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Live listings

Asking price, USD: a median of $230 across 3 fixed-price listings on 2026-11-10 (middle half $15–$230). First day tracked.

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Vintage Soviet PCS Mir-67H Arsat 35mm f/2.8 Lens Original Paper Manual 1992 — $15.00 · eBay
PCS Arsat H 35mm f/2.8 Shift für Olympus OM, #A33-3, - GUT - — €129.00 · eBay · likely pcs-arsat-H
ARSENAL Arsat H PCS 35mm f/2,8 für Nikon MF - SNr: 9401125 — €179.00 · eBay
Multicoated PCS ARSAT 2.8/35mm Shift lens for Nikon mount — $225.00 · eBay
Shift lens PCS Arsat 35mm F/2.8 360° 11mm shift MIR-67 Nikon F mount — $259.00 · eBay
Arsenal 35mm F/2.8 ARSAT PCS H Manual Focus Shift M42 Screw Mount Objektiv - Neuwertig — £208.24 · eBay
ARSAT PCS 35MM F 2.8 DECENTRALIZED LENS WITH NIKON MOUNT, KIEV-19 — €250.00 · eBay
PCS Arsat H 35mm F2.8 per Nikon Controllo della Prospettiva Ottimo — €300.00 · eBay · likely pcs-arsat-H
PCS Arsat H 35mm F2.8 Für Nikon Objektiv Optik Kontrolle Der Perspektive — €337.00 · eBay · likely pcs-arsat-H
Arax 35mm f2.8 Tilt Shift Objektiv für Nikon — £297.50 · eBay · likely arax-tilt-shift

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