Originally posted by i_trax Miranda, I am pretty sure that I remember Miranda cameras with Pentax K mount. They were made by Cosina[/url]
I understood (c1985 - on), that Miranda was a brand name owned by Dixons. Wikipedia confirms this, but also (as I did not know) that before Dixons bought the name it was a Japanese camera maker.
I don't know if Dixons was ever in the US, but in the UK it was a large chain of high street "men's toy shops" (as my boss once amusingly described them
). They sold everything from metal detectors and RC model cars to the more popular models of top-brand SLRs, with Miranda as a budget brand. The Dixons' lines have now been taken into Currys' superstores and the Dixons and Miranda names dropped.