A customer had his locking collet loosen up on him in the field.The Norma, built between 1947 and 1970 is the best built view camera ever made and quite collectable.The Norma is strong and light weight; the 4X5 Norma weighs just 7.5.
That is little more than the Sinar F, which is not 110 the camera the Norma is. The Norma is compact; it will fold down against the monorail. But compact means little when it comes to view cameras even if you are carrying them into the field. Because so many accessories are needed, you may store the accessories around the camera. So the compactness and portability of the whole outfit is more important than the compactness of the basic camera. Sinar Norma Expert cases efficiently utilize the space around the monorail camera and they have external hardware to accept backpacking straps. The Back is lightweight cast aluminum, machined where necessary. On the front side of the ground glass frame the surface is machined and is held in perfect position by 4 positioning screws. Your film holder is resting against felt around the perimeter--except at the light trap at the entrance to the film back, however, it bottoms out on those 4 positioning pins. Linhof started out building wooden view cameras, but soon went to metal when they realized greater precision was necessary. ![]() You can use larger apertures with the Sinar Norma because of the precision manufacture. If you are using a wooden camera stop down to ensure that you are within the depth of field of your lenscameras capabilities--at the cost of lower resolution. Using a glass plate filmholder with a different distance to the coated glass surface You could actually adjust those positioning screws to ensure that your ground glass and your coated glass plate are in the same plane. ![]() Each Sinar Norma I sell will be newly cleaned, lubed and adjusted if necessary before being shipped out. Although these are venerable cameras, keep in mind the age of these cameras. I have as good a collection of new and vintage parts as anyone, but sometimes parts are simply not available. Whatever the condition of the cameras that I sell you, you will be informed. A camera consists of front and rear standards, GG back, 12 basic rail with both end caps, rail clamp, regular pleated bellows. Lensboards priced separately just like new because you must choose the hole size you need. Some Norma items are listed in other parts of this list, for instance, Norma pantilt heads will be listed with tripods. Do not attempt to service your Sinar Norma if you do not know what you are doing.
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