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Re: [OM] [OT]Miranda

Subject: Re: [OM] [OT]Miranda
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2003 14:06:13 -0500
Moose said:
Looks like the Miranda F, the 'poor man's Nik*n'. I seriously looked at
it, but dug up the money for a Nik*n Ftn instead. I believe it emulated
the Nik*n in its control layout and the shutter release it the slim
button on top in front of the speed dial and the button on the front is
DOF preview? Fully mechanical with no meter, just like the Nik*n before
the Photomic finder.
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Yes, I wanted a Nikon F also but couldn't afford it so my wife bought me a Miranda GT in 1968. The Miranda in question on the oboy site I believe to be either a D or an F. The GT had TTL metering built into the prism. Prisms/viewfinders and screens were interchangeable so you lost your metering when changing the GT prism for, say, a waist-level finder. And, of course, there was no automation with the meter. You manually transferred the readings to the settings on the camera. Screens were glass and about 5-6mm thick with brass frames. None of those wimpy plastic things like the OM.

The button Moose took to be the DOF preview is actually a second shutter release button. You could release the shutter from the top or the front. I'm pretty sure the camera offered DOF preview but I can't recall where it was. I think it was probably on the lens ala OM.

Giving up that interchangeable finder and easily changed screens was the toughest decision about moving on to the OM-1 in about 1976.

Chuck Norcutt
Woburn, Massachusetts, USA


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