[Leica] Advice sought: - TTArtisan Light Meters

[Peter Dzwig]

Thanks Christopher. I tried the link but it seems to be unreachable. 
Several people rate him very highly, but at least at the moment the link 
isn't working.

Chrome gives:

"This site can’t be reached
Check if there is a typo in ian-partridge.com.
DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN"


Which according to Google means:

The "DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN" error ... indicates that the browser 
was unable to resolve the domain name (the website address) into a 
numerical IP address, meaning the browser can't find where to connect to 
the website. "NXDOMAIN" specifically means "Non-Existent Domain," 
suggesting the domain either doesn't exist or there's a problem with the 
DNS server's ability to find it."


great shame!

Peter


On 07/08/2025 11:51, Christopher Crawford via LUG wrote:
> 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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> 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
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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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> a good reputation, but see below...
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> I bought one (Series 2) because I wanted to test my M3 (my Weston Mk V
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> has finally stopped working properly). I normally shoot "Sunny 16", but
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> have been getting some odd results of late and wanted to understand if
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> it was me, developing or what.
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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 shade.
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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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> full Mediterranean sunlight (seriously f22)! Otherwise they were miles
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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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> Thanks in advance
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> Peter
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> PS If anyone knows of someone in the UK who can replace the cell in a
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> Weston V, please let me know
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Dr. Peter Dzwig