[Leica] Advice sought: - TTArtisan Light Meters

[Lluis Ripoll]

Hi Peter,

O have not followed the different opinions, i want tell you my own opinion. I use a Hand lightmeter Gossen Sixtomat F2, for my style it match perfectly  because I don’t need point out the camera to the different subjects, I do this with discretion with the lightmeter in my hand, in addition you can mesure the light on different points of the image, finally on tmy usual store they have recommended me a hand meter, it is more precise, I had two Seiko, they was good but after acertain time they didn’t work any more, for this reason I went to the classical German Gossen. This is just my humbley opinion.

Cheers
Lluis




> El 9 ag 2025, a les 13:59, Peter Dzwig <pdzwig at summaventures.com> va escriure:
> 
> 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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