[Leica] Advice sought: - TTArtisan Light Meters

[Adam Bridge]

I have no idea how film and digtal light meters should be different.

Is there a reason for this? Light that lands on the sensor, to my aged brain, seems to be the same where it’s landing on film or on silicon.

Adam Bridge


> On Aug 11, 2025, at 2:11 PM, Marty Deveney via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
> 
> Peter, the ISO standards for film and for digital light meters are
> different.  The two meters also measure light very differently.  Have you
> compared it to a film camera or a hand held meter?  Or tried using it to
> shoot film?
> 
> I have not tried the TTA meter but use a Keks KMQ meter
> https://www.kekscameras.com/store/p14/KEKSKMQLightmeter.html#/ and it works
> really well.
> 
> Marty
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2025 at 9:40 PM Peter Dzwig <pdzwig at summaventures.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Thanks mark! You are the only person on the LUG saying they use one. Do
>> you think it could be faulty?
>> 
>> Peter
>> 
>> On 09/08/2025 17:09, Mark Kronquist via LUG wrote:
>>> 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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