Miranda — 28-70mm f/3.5-4.8 MC macro standard zoom for Canon FD, Olympus OM and Pentax K
Part of the same Dixons-era Miranda lens programme as the marque's other 1980s zooms, this standard-range 28-70mm was aimed at buyers of Cosina-built Miranda SLR bodies and other contemporary fittings looking for one lens to cover wide-angle through short telephoto.
Specified as a manual-focus MC Macro zoom with an f/3.5-4.8 variable maximum aperture, it closes to f/22, carries a 58mm filter thread and focuses down to roughly 0.8m in its macro setting. Miranda offered it in Canon FD, Olympus OM and Pentax K mounts.
Rendering is typical of the period's consumer standard zooms: acceptable centre sharpness at 28mm and 50mm with softer corners at the wide end, moderate barrel distortion, and a macro setting that delivers modest magnification rather than true close-up reproduction.
As a common kit-era zoom it trades for little on the used market. Check the macro switch engages positively, look for zoom-ring slop and oil migration onto the aperture blades, and confirm the front element is free of the coating bloom often seen on unstored examples.