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Subject: [Leica] Advice sought: - TTArtisan Light Meters
From: mak at teleport.com (Mark Kronquist)
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2025 09:09:22 -0700
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I have and use several they are fine  Mark in Oregon

> On Aug 9, 2025, at 4:59 AM, Peter Dzwig <pdzwig at summaventures.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> All,
> 
> thank you for all your replies. Fascinating. The one thing that they have 
> in common is that it appears that no-one uses TTArtisan meters, which must 
> say *something*.
> 
> Peter
> 
> On 07/08/2025 11:19, Peter Dzwig wrote:
>> 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
> 
> 
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