Anybody shooting Miranda SLR ?

[Luddite Frank]

My curiosity about these is recently piqued...

Back in High-School, I remember a classmate talking about his father's Miranda Camera... another classmate's father had a Petri...


Anybody shooting with a Miranda now ?


Luddite Frank

 

[Axel]

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Anybody shooting with a Miranda now ? ...

I have a Miranda Sensorex II with a few lenses.
This all-metal-camera is a great experience to hold and shoot.
Works marvellous after over 40 years and first ten years of heavy
use.

There are M42-adapters and waist level finders available for Mirandas.
For simple studiowork you can lift off the eye level finder and compose on the focusing screen.
A viewfindersystem like the Exaktas and Exas had.

 

[tunalegs]

I have a Miranda D and some of the accessories and lenses.

M42 adapter

Chest level finder

The lenses are good by 1960 standards. The 1.9/50 has a very vintagey feel about its rendering quality.

The 2.8/50 gives a classic tessar type look.

I have a 2.8/105 T mount lens which is also surprisingly good - here at f4.

The perks of the Mirandas are that they are pretty quiet (by 1960s SLR standards) they are pretty small, they have interchangeable viewfinders, and there are adapters for M42, Nikon, Exakta and some other mounts that work with infinity focussing, although the diaphragm operation will be manual.

The operation is very smooth, the build is substantial, but the fit and finish is only average at best really. Certain models are also known for finicky reliability. The nickname "poor man's Nikon F" is pretty fitting really.

I quite like my Model D, but an F or a G or a later Sensorex are probably better as users as they can take more modern lenses - the D is stuck with PAD lenses (pressure activated diaphragm, exakta style) of which only 28mm to 135mm focal lengths were made - or preset T mount lenses.

 

[jajong]

I have a Miranda F (solid, working well) and a Sensomat (needs cleaning and adjustment). I find the lenses more interesting than the bodies. The 1.9 50mm (auto-dia...) is really sharp as is the 105mm. The 8 lens 6 group 1.4 50 mm is a very nice 'old-fashioned' lens. I have some samples from it here: http://www.pbase.com/jajong/miranda

Cheers, Jan

 

[rjbuzzclick]

I have a black Miranda G with 28mm and 50mm bayonet auto lenses, a 135mm screw-mount manual lens, three finders (prism, waist-level, and critical focus), clip-on light meter, and cold shoe bracket. I didn't set out to build this extensive of a collection, but I keep finding accessories cheaply so I pick them up. I don't use it much, but I like the quality of the photos I've taken with it (none online at the moment, sorry).

 

[alienmeatsack]

I'm king of bumping older threads today! 😀

I also use a Miranda Sensorex as one of my regular SLRs with the Auto Miranda 1.x lens. My kit is from when I was in High School and includes 3 Vivitar diopters (+1, +2, +3), an assortment of yellow, orange, polarizing and other filters, a T-Mount adapter, a LTM mount adapter for closeup with Leica LTM lenses, a Nikon mount adapter, a 2x adapter and an old leather bag to carry it all in.

I love the weight of it, I -loooove- the look of images shot with the Auto Miranda 50mm lens, and I love the camera in general.

I have a lot of cameras and this one I keep going back to over and over.