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Affordable Arduino-Based Light & Flash Meter for Photographers

Components and supplies

Affordable Arduino-Based Light & Flash Meter for Photographers
Arduino Nano R3
×1
Adafruit BH1750
×1
Adafruit SSD1306
×1

Apps and online services

Affordable Arduino-Based Light & Flash Meter for Photographers
Arduino IDE

About this project

I want to present you an exposure meter that is fairly cheap, accurate and has all the necessary functions. The lightmeter based on Arduino as a main controller and BH1750 as a metering cell. Information is displayed on SSD1306 OLED display. The device is powered by 2 AAA batteries.

Affordable Arduino-Based Light & Flash Meter for Photographers

Affordable Arduino-Based Light & Flash Meter for Photographers

Affordable Arduino-Based Light & Flash Meter for Photographers

Functions list:

  • Ambient light metering
  • Flash light metering
  • ND filter correction
  • Aperture priority
  • Shutter speed priority
  • ISO range 8 – 4 000 000
  • Aperture range 1.0 – 3251
  • Shutter speed range 1/10000 – 133 sec
  • ND Filter range ND2 – ND8192
  • Displaying amount of light in Lux.
  • Displaying exposure value, EV
  • Recalculating exposure pair while one of the parameter changing
  • Battery information
  • Power 2xAAA LR03 batteries

Affordable Arduino-Based Light & Flash Meter for Photographers

Project page on Github: https://github.com/vpominchuk/lightmeter

and on my site: https://www.pominchuk.com/lightmeter/

Code

Source Code
https://github.com/vpominchuk/lightmeter/tree/master/src/lightmeter

Schematics

Schematic Diagram
https://github.com/vpominchuk/lightmeter/tree/master/Schematic%20Diagram

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