Norma Tripod Head Help

[Darryl Roberts]

Norma, the Champ

 

[Bob S]

Quality Camera could easily have one.

 

[Darryl Roberts]

Quality Camera could easily have one.

Thank you. I'll call them in a few.

 

[Darryl Roberts]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Pan-Tilt-H...773697?hash=item2a9fbfcd41:g:v9MAAOSw5cNYLR1Q

Is this as good?

 

[Nokton48]

I have no direct experience. But I have read elsewhere that some think it is OK, others say it is not as good. If I had to get one, I'd be concerned about the materials used for construction, and how long they would hold up long term. Use over time is not an issue with the original Norma. For my uses I hold out for the real Norma deal. I know a fellow over on RFF who bought one, and then later a Norma one came along. So now he has two. I have bought some really battered real ones cheaply, after disassembly and cleaning they work just as intended without issues.

Recent Norma finds by Nokton48, on Flickr

I walked in MPEX in Columbus Ohio and they had this in the back of the store, a really beat up 8x10 Norma kit. I bought the sticky shutter for $100 and the Pan Tilt Head for $200. I'm OK with that. In this shot you can see the small spring loaded pins on top of the head at ten and two o'clock, that is what quickly and precisely aligns the Norma to the head. You can do it in the dark with your eyes closed

 

[Nokton48]

Nearly Restored 5x7 Sinar Norma by Nokton48, on Flickr

Same camera with Norma 121mm F8 Sinar Super Angulon with fully automated shutter and all cables. The TTL Sinarsix is deadly accurate. I have four probes and amazingly they all agree and work as intended. Speed and precise through the lens metering. And a forty page course on how to use the thing

Zone VI Lightweight tripod works good outdoors. Actually Fred Picker used the 4x5 and 8x10 Normas and that is what got me intially interested in the system, back in the early eighties

 

[Nokton48]

Sinar Norma Price List July 1966 1 by Nokton48, on Flickr

 

[Nokton48]

Sinar Norma Price List July 1966 2 by Nokton48, on Flickr

 

[Darryl Roberts]

Sinar Norma Price List July 1966 2 by Nokton48, on Flickr

Thank you. I'm renting one tomorrow to try, if I like it hopefully the store will sell it to me.