Data sheet: Miranda Auto 28 mm f/2.8

Pekka Buttler, 03/2026

Specifications

The table below summarises the lens’ key specifications (measurements based on pictured sample):

Brand:	Miranda	Lens name	1:2.8 f=28mm Auto
Focal length(s)1	28 mm	Angle-of-view2	74 °
Maximum Aperture	f/2.8	In Production	1963–76 (all versions) 1974–76 (this version)
Lens mount (this lens)	Miranda	Mount subtype	F-G-MAT Auto aperture but no aperture coupling
Length3	52,9 mm	Diameter4	58,9 mm
Filter ring diameter	52 mm	Weight	219 grams
Lens element count	8	Lens group count	6
Aperture blades (S/R/C)5	6 S	Focus throw	180 °
Minimum focusing distance (indicated)	25 cms	Maximum magnification (calculated )	1:6,8
Has manual aperture ring	YES	Has Manual focus ring	YES
Aperture mechanism type	Automatic	Aperture click stops 6	2.8-4-5.6-8-11-16

Further notes:

• Miranda was – in its heyday – an advanced Japanese camera manufacturer. You can read more about Miranda camera in the JAPB company profile on Miranda camera.
• This is a very late version of Miranda’s venerable 28 mm f/2.8 lens – it belongs to the “Auto Dual” generation of lenses that Miranda started offering in 1974 for backward compatibility. See more on the Miranda lens generations in the Miranda lens compendium.
• Importantly, Miranda was a camera manufacturer and not a lens manufacturer. This mean that from early on, Miranda cameras came equipped with various brands of lenses, including some rather prominent manufacturers such as Kowa and Zunow.
• Lenses branded as “Miranda” or “Soligor Miranda” were not manufactured by Miranda, but were sourced from other manufacturers and branded ‘Miranda’. Most often these lenses were sourced from Miranda’s long-time partner (and later: owner) Soligor (Allied Impex Corporation). Hence, the actual manufacturer of “Miranda” lenses is often impossible to discern with certainty.

Versions/variants

The table below summarises the development of Miranda 28 mm f/2.8 lenses.
For more information on generations of Miranda lenses, see the Miranda lens compendium.

Mainline spec	Years	Generation	Recipe	MFD	Filter	Length	Diameter	Weight	Notes
28 mm f/2.8	1960–63	unknown	8e	unknown	unknown	unknown	unknown	unknown	7
28 mm f/2.8	1963–74	F-G-MAT	8e / 6g	0,25 m	46 mm	58 mm	59 mm	230 g
28 mm f/2.8	1963–74	MEX-REX	8e / 6g	0,25 m	46 mm	60 mm	59 mm	232 g
28 mm f/2.8	1972–74	E	8e / 6g	0,25 m	52 mm	54 mm	59 mm	273 g
28 mm f/2.8	1974–76	EC	7e / 7g	0,25 m	49 mm	40 mm	60 mm	205 g	[data sheet]
28 mm f/2.8	1974–76	Dual	8e / 6g	0,25 m	52 mm	53 mm	59 mm	219 g	(this lens)

Adapting

This lens cannot be used natively on any current SLR or dSLRs. To use it in its native environment, you will need a Miranda Camera film body. While this lens will mount on any Miranda camera that uses the Miranda mount, its automatic aperture stop-down will work only on Miranda bodies after the Miranda F (launched 1963).

Thanks to being a fully manual lens (manual aperture, manual focus), the lens can be adapted to all mirrorless cameras using a suitable adapter. However, Miranda adapters are not as easily available as adapters for many other legacy era camera mounts, nor is there a wide variety of specialist adapters.

Using Miranda lenses on dSLRs is a theoretical possibility. Thanks to the relatively short flange focal distance of the Miranda mount (at 41,5 mm, clearly shorter than that of any full-frame dSLR mount), any adapter will necessitate some corrective optics to achieve infinity focus.

Footnotes

1. Focal length is (unless stated otherwise) given in absolute terms, and not in Full-frame equivalent. For an understanding of whether the lens is wide/tele, see ‘Angle-of-view’. ↩︎
2. Picture angle is given in degrees and concerns the diagonal picture angle. Rule of thumb:
   > 90 ° ==> Ultra-wide-angle
   70–90 ° ==> Wide-angle
   50–70 ° ==> Moderate wide-angle
   40–50 ° ==> ‘Standard’ or ‘normal’ lens
   20–40 ° ==> Short tele lens
   10-20 ° ==> Tele lens
   5-10 ° ==> Long tele lens
   < 5 ° ==> Ultra-tele lens ↩︎
3. Length is given from the mount flange to the front of lens at its shortest. ↩︎
4. Diameter excludes protrusions such as rabbit ears or stop-down levers. ↩︎
5. S=straight; R=rounded; C=(almost)circular at all apertures. ↩︎
6. Numbers equal aperture values on aperture ring; • intermediate click; – no intermediate click. ↩︎
7. Mentioned as a ‘fully automatic’ 8 element 28/2.8 in the 1960 Automex manual. Might be a ‘Soligor-Miranda’ lens. ↩︎