[Leica] Advice sought: - TTArtisan Light Meters

[pdzwig at summaventures.com (Peter Dzwig)]

My fault Christopher - well not mine actually, but there seems to have 
been some sort of an Internet issue. I could receive and read emails, 
but images, links etc just weren't working.

Sorry about that,

Peter

On 07/08/2025 16:01, Christopher Crawford via LUG wrote:
> That?s strange; before I sent you the link, I went to the site to make 
> sure he was still offering the service. I just visited it again.
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> https://ian-partridge.com/westonrepair.html
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> Try emailing him. Here?s his email address: enquire at ian-partridge.com
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> Christopher Crawford
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> Fine Art Photography
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> 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 
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> Date: Thursday, August 7, 2025 at 8:17?AM
> To: "Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>" <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Advice sought: - TTArtisan Light Meters
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> Thanks Christopher. I tried the link but it seems to be unreachable.
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> Several people rate him very highly, but at least at the moment the link
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> Check if there is a typo in ian-partridge.com.
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> DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN"
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> Which according to Google means:
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> The "DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN" error ... indicates that the browser
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> the website. "NXDOMAIN" specifically means "Non-Existent Domain,"
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> great shame!
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> On 07/08/2025 11:51, Christopher Crawford via LUG wrote:
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> 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).
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> From: LUG <lug-bounces+chris=chriscrawfordphoto.com at leica-users.org> on 
> behalf of Peter Dzwig <pdzwig at summaventures.com>
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> Organization: Summa Ventures Ltd
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> Reply-To: "Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>" <lug at 
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> Date: Thursday, August 7, 2025 at 6:19?AM
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> To: "Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>" <lug at leica-users.org>
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> Subject: [Leica] Advice sought: - TTArtisan Light Meters
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> Dear All,
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> Does anyone have any experience of these meters? I though that they had
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> I bought one (Series 2) because I wanted to test my M3 (my Weston Mk V
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> I was comparing what I would expect to get from Sunny 16 with my Fuji
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> XE-2 and the LM. I tested in a variety of light levels and degrees of 
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> To my amazement the LM and the other exposures agreed on only one
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> occasion, when I was pointing the LM and the XE-2 at a white wall in
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> Both XE-2 and LM were set to 400ASA. When I shot the scenes with the
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> XE-2 the images were, in general, fine.
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> Anyone any thoughts/explanations? Of course the XE-2 has a zoned meter,
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> PS If anyone knows of someone in the UK who can replace the cell in a
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Dr. Peter Dzwig