Eye lens dosimetry has been an important field of research in the last decade. Dose measurements with a prototype of an active personal eye lens dosemeter based on the Dosepix detector are presented. The personal dose equivalent at 3 mm depth of soft tissue, $\boldsymbol {H}_{\textbf {p}}\boldsymbol {(3)}$ , was measured in the center front of a water-filled cylinder phantom with a height and diameter of 20 cm. The energy dependence of the normalized response is investigated for mean photon energies between 12.4 and 248keV for continuous reference radiation fields (N-series) according to ISO 4037. The response normalized to N- $60\,\,({\overline{E}=47.9\,\text {keV}})$ at $\boldsymbol {0^{\circ }}$ angle of irradiation stays within the approval limits of IEC 61526 for angles of incidence between $\boldsymbol {-75^{\circ }}$ and $\boldsymbol {+75^{\circ }}$ . Performance in pulsed photon fields was tested for varying dose rates from $\boldsymbol {0.1(\,{\textbf {Sv}}/{\textbf {h}})}$ up to $\boldsymbol {1000}\,({\textbf {Sv}}/{\textbf {h}})$ and pulse durations from $\boldsymbol {1\,\textbf {ms}}$ up to $\boldsymbol {10\,\textbf {s}}$ . The dose measurement works well within the approval limits (acc. to IEC 61526) up to $\boldsymbol {1\,({\textbf {Sv}}/{\textbf {h}}})$ . No significant influence of the pulse duration on the measured dose is found. Reproducibility measurements yield a coefficient of variation which does not exceed $\boldsymbol {1\%}$ for two tested eye lens dosemeter prototypes.