TT Artisan -S2 - A New LIGHT METER for My ZORKI 4 35mm FILM Camera

A new light meter for my Zorki 4 35mm vintage rangefinder film camera.
I purchased a TT Artisan S-2 cold shoe mounted light meter for my totally manual, meter less Zorki. Follow along as I unbox the new light meter, add a battery, and mount the meter on my camera. Then we go outside to try it out!
Here’s the Amazon Link if you want to purchase one for your camera.
amzn.to/49wUFHH
Good Day!
This is the story of a seasoned professional photojournalist with some forty-plus years of work in the news business, who cut his photographic teeth as a high school yearbook and college newspaper photographer with his very first classic Nikon - a silver and black Nikon Photomic F 35mm film camera (Which he still owns, btw).
After years of manual focus and manual exposure photography this pro made the switch into the auto focus digital world in his middle-aged years. Digital has been a friend during these years and will continue for paid work.
As with many shooters, old and young, the love and mystique of film cameras and film photography is coming back into "hipness!"
Enter a 53-year-old visitor from the former USSR in the form of the famous, totally manual and mechanical, Zorki 4 Russian-made 35mm rangefinder camera, the pride of the Motherland at the time.
This new addition to his stable of 35mm cameras was made in 1970, when this newest owner was a sophomore in high school. Call it longing for the “Old Days” of photography or just a “swept off his feet” moment with an attractive Russian body, the Zorki 4 rangefinder has captured his imagination and has begun to refuel the passion for analog picture making once again.
This is a vintage film camera diary, of sorts, as you are welcomed to follow along on this photographic journey documenting the ups and downs traveling with an old Russian!
#filmphotography #vintagecamera #zorki #istillshootfilm #35mm #josephkreissphotography #russiancameras #rangefinder

[@Ybalrid]

One of the reasons why CZcams is an amazing platform is that *of couse* somebody has a photography channel dedicated to one specific soviet rangefinder camera

[@63MacGuy]

I bought the black brass model. Really good build quality! The meter is also very accurate.
Problem 1- it's nearly impossible to see the lights in the bright sun
Problem 2- the battery goes dead just sitting in my camera bag (not on) in a few weeks. I'm looking for another brand

[@dansemacabre5123]

I'm currently running my 1972 Zorki 4 for this years Frugal Film Project, with a Jupiter 8 lens, using the Sunny 16 rule.
I might see about picking up a light meter - the S2 certainly looks good on the Zorki.

[@thomas_dries]

What a cool little light meter! I may have to get one if they’re really that cheap. Also, I bet that exposure you made of the pattern in the snow at the end turned out great! Is there somewhere I could go to see it? Do you have an instagram or a website?

[@juliovila8233]

any chance you can teach how to use this gem

[@yesanton]

+ and - for exposure? that's jsut sad