Photon: The Open-source Light Meter | Demo & Build Guide

Published at : 23 Dec 2025

We made an open source photography incident light meter called Photon.
A Raspberry Pi Pico project that will spare you some tears when your films come back from the laboratory. Get onboard the film camera revival and become the alpha-hipster!

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*correction - the incorrectly labelled photo (taken with a Pentax, not a Hasselblad) is the nice man, Herr Schällmann, from the local repair shop, Reparaturland in Basel, Switzerland.

*Timestamps*
00:00 Incident Light Meters
02:24 Our DIY version
03:38 The Gallery

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