A friend of mine had a Miranda Sensorex in HS. It had the sweetest
shutter sound IIRC.
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Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> Note: I was originally just going to send this off list but thought
> maybe some of the list members might enjoy this little report.
>
> Hi, Bill
> The cameras arrived Wednesday or Thursday. I don't know exactly. The
> box was left on the porch and we didn't realize it was there. Anyhow
> all is well.
>
> The Miranda Sensorex is very pretty, much more so than I expected. It's
> also a lot heavier than I remember from my own Miranda GT... almost as
> heavy as my Minolta SRT-101. Them were the solid build days I guess.
> Too bad about the corroded mercury battery box. I'm not sure if the
> meter will ever work again. Been trying to think about how it might be
> tested without tearing everything apart. No sense trying to fix it if
> the sensor behind the mirror doesn't work. I hadn't realized the
> Sensorex was that sophisticated with TTL behind the mirror. The slow
> speed governor (I think) doesn't seem to work. Shutter works OK at "B"
> and down to 1/30 but the second curtain won't release at 1/15 and
> slower. Fortunately, winding on releases it. That's a surprise though
> since normally the camera won't wind on if the second curtain hasn't
> completed its travel and let the mirror back down. The lenses are also
> in very good condition except that the 135/3.5 has a sticky diaphragm.
>
> The Kodak Pony was a bit of a surprise too in that everything seems to
> work. The 1955 manual I found on-line appears to be for a later version
> with a 3.5 lens (vs. 4.5) and 1/300 vs 1/200 top speed. But it's
> otherwise quite close and was easy enough to figure it out. The
> removable back seems a little loose causing me to wonder about a
> possible light leak but close inspection seems to say it's just built
> that way. There's no sign it ever had any sort of seals and no sign of
> breakage or wear. I guess it works by good baffle design. It has a
> nice and very easily read DOF scale. That was interesting in itself
> since it's DOF scale is different from the later model one in the
> manual. They both obviously assume different but rather low resolutions
> of no more than about 20 lines/mm whereas I normally use 30 lines/mm for
> DOF calculations. But I guess that's just the inexpensive lens and the
> film and small prints of the day.
>
> They'll probably just be shelf queens but I get to think about all the
> things I might do and how to do them... but probably won't. :-)
>
> Thanks,
> Chuck
>
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