I'll be able to answer this for myself in a few days, but my curiosity has gotten the better of me.
I've ordered a front standard advertised by KEH as an "X400" for the Sinar Norma.
I own a Sinar F, and the weak mounting of the front standard has made me nervous. Plus, the rise mechanism seems a bit wiggly on it and it doesn't have fine focus. I bought what was billed as an F2 front standard on ebay, but it turned out to be a rear standard and I returned it (I should have noticed that it was opposite hand of what a front standard would have been).
But then I saw this Norma front standard advertised at what seemed a very reasonable price much lower than I'd seen for F2 or P standards, and I know the Norma stuff was made to a higher standard than the later F stuff. And every picture I've seen of a Norma front standard has fine focus, and the rise mechanism is on the sides of the lens board rather than at the bottom, which improves their stiffness if being pushed by the bellows. The downside (which isn't really a downside for me) is that the Norma standard is not a yaw-free design.
I've read that the bellows attachments are the same, and I know that the lensboard is the same, so it seems like a Norma front standard on a F would work fine. And I could use my current "Multipurpose" standard for its usual multiple purposes.
Did I screw up?
Rick "who has never actually inspected a Norma in the flesh" Denney
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