Category: Japan

Miranda Sensorex II In the late 1960s, the SLR industry moved towards TTL measuring, so Miranda’s Automex models no longer cut it. A new model, the Sensorex, came to market in 1967. The body closely resembled the Automex, true to Miranda’s unchanged designs. Other camera makers had the TTL metering mounted within the prism hump. They couldn’t do so with...

Miranda Automex III The Automex line, introduced in 1960, was Miranda’s first entry into the metered SLR universe. The shutter trigger is still at the front right, but the arm over it is gone. Lenses here use an arm to connect to a body-mounted slide at the left of the lens mount. The slide is marked with F stops, and...

Miranda DR After the Miranda very early model ‘A’, came a slew of cameras based on the initial design, all without metering, hardly distinguishable. The Miranda DR of 1962 is one before the last in this series. The Automex, an SLR with an external light meter, was the precursor of the next-generation Miranda models. The Automex was introduced in 1959,...

Miranda A The first Miranda SLR model was the model ‘T’, sold in 1955 under the Orion brand and after that under Miranda. A similar model, the ‘A’, came to market at its heels. It had a top speed and lever winding, the rest similar to the ‘T’ and the ‘T II’ models. While the ‘T’ models are scarce and...