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Miranda S

I’m happy to introduce the latest addition to my, apparently, ever growing Miranda collection: a Miranda S from the year 1959, serial number 592277. The ‘S’ was an economy version of Miranda’s first camera, the ‘T’, having only the faster … Continue reading

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Eyepiece correction lens

I had a correction lens made specificially for the Miranda rubber eyepiece. It wasn’t actually cheap, but now I can ditch the damn glasses while photographing… “Four-eyes” and cameras, old or new, just don’t mix!

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Developing the first black & white film

Last Monday I spent an interesting evening in the Tampere Camera Club‘s (Tampereen Kameraseura) film laboratory situated within the basement of the “Metso” library. In there I developed, for the first time without any outside help, a black and white … Continue reading

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Testing Miranda lenses on a m4/3 Olympus (part 2)

Actually, the title is a bit misleading, because this time I’m testing Soligor lenses, although they all have either Miranda screw-mount or bayonet mounts. The weather today was overcast but quite warm for the season, so I did some walking-around … Continue reading

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Miranda – Micro Four Thirds adapter review (part 1)

One of the interesting side-effects of the small register (flange distance to the film/sensor) of the mirrorless digital system cameras is the possibility to use almost any make and model of the older manual lenses with them, provided that the … Continue reading

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