Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2025/08/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ian Partridge is who you want to go to for repairs on your Weston. He also sells Westons he has restored; I bought one from him about 10 yrs ago and it works beautifully. He had new meter cells made after the originals were no longer available. He?s in the UK. He shipped the meter I bought from him to me in the USA if any of my fellow Americans are looking for a place to buy a Weston that actually works correctly (I?ve unfortunately never seen one that does aside from the one I bought from Ian). https://ian-partridge.com/westonrepair.html Christopher Crawford Fine Art Photography 260-437-8990 My Portfolio https://chriscrawfordphoto.com Learn From Me https://crawfordphotoschool.com The Polaroid SX-70 Project https://sx70project.com From: LUG <lug-bounces+chris=chriscrawfordphoto.com at leica-users.org> on behalf of Peter Dzwig <pdzwig at summaventures.com> Organization: Summa Ventures Ltd Reply-To: "Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>" <lug at leica-users.org> Date: Thursday, August 7, 2025 at 6:19?AM To: "Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>" <lug at leica-users.org> Subject: [Leica] Advice sought: - TTArtisan Light Meters Dear All, Does anyone have any experience of these meters? I though that they had a good reputation, but see below... I bought one (Series 2) because I wanted to test my M3 (my Weston Mk V has finally stopped working properly). I normally shoot "Sunny 16", but have been getting some odd results of late and wanted to understand if it was me, developing or what. I was comparing what I would expect to get from Sunny 16 with my Fuji XE-2 and the LM. I tested in a variety of light levels and degrees of shade. To my amazement the LM and the other exposures agreed on only one occasion, when I was pointing the LM and the XE-2 at a white wall in full Mediterranean sunlight (seriously f22)! Otherwise they were miles apart. Both XE-2 and LM were set to 400ASA. When I shot the scenes with the XE-2 the images were, in general, fine. Anyone any thoughts/explanations? Of course the XE-2 has a zoned meter, but still... Thanks in advance Peter PS If anyone knows of someone in the UK who can replace the cell in a Weston V, please let me know -- Dr. Peter Dzwig _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information