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I own two devices from Pibiger, who are one of the smaller players in the "Raspberry Pi" marketplace. I own their "starwars case," and I own this camera. Both are excellent, overall, but also, both require some extra "hoop jumping" to get them to work properly. I guess that's not shocking, given that the vendor is, as I said, a smaller supplier.For anyone curious... this is the case I was mentioning:https://www.amazon.com/Raspberry-Aluminum-Heatsink-Passive-Controlling/dp/B0B4D376D4/ref=sr_1_7?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.NCJwSKyZL7XZGQoogDB8E2qR29UZYtedUrLH7ZR1qwDoPx0NL4XLBuYXYvF4XUAe1evIEI3NLwaSKjiiHoqcjB7oL9plBByYei7zFk_JCII.EH47fWG0hMPRGCe0q36AtsXluVM2WRADYUr68tza67A&dib_tag=se&keywords=Pibiger&qid=1705855755&sr=8-7It works flawlessly once the proper configuration changes are made, but it's non-trivial to get there.And this little camera is sort of similar. It's a GREAT camera, which produces high-quality imagery and capture, and works well at full resolution and frame rate on every application I've tried it out on so far (using a Raspberry Pi 4B, 8GB RAM version).But, you have to "jump through hoops" to get to that point. What hoops? Well, you have to install "legacy camera support." That's pretty simple to do (it's just one change in one config file), but I'm not sure why it's necessary.It seems that the Raspberry Pi Foundation has been eliminating their "old style" camera interface and replacing it with something "new and improved." I'm afraid I don't know what is "new and improved" about the new interface versus the old one, though... but I have to assume that this is more about features to be added in the future than about anything you'd be using now.A BRIEF bit of research on my part led to this reasonable-sounding explanation: "I think there are some things to be aware of here. Firstly, yes, the ARM cores will be busier using libcamera than they were previously. That's because stuff that was running on the GPU (the VIdeoCore) is now running on the ARMs. This has many benefits - we can fix and improve the code and even add new features, all of which was very difficult before - but the ARM cores are busier as a result."The consequence is indeed that some things will run less well on less powerful Pis. In particular, I would draw people's attention to displaying camera preview windows through the X Windows display stack. I would say the rule of thumb is that "it's best to avoid running X WIndows based camera previews on platforms where X Windows is sluggish in the first place" (I know it sounds kind of obvious). The recommendation would be to bypass X WIndows altogether, as you do when using Raspberry Pi OS Lite, and previews will be displayed via Linux DRM instead. This runs very well, even on a Pi Zero."If that's confusing... I'll summarize. Basically, the "old camera system" used the video subsystem to handle camera input, while the new version uses the CPU to handle camera input. The video system is less programmable than the CPU system, so this makes the camera system more flexible and more easy to "fix" than the old approach. But it puts all the load on the CPU, so systems with low CPU capacity (such as the Raspberry Pi Zero) will slow to a crawl when doing camera work using the new system, while cameras using the "old system" will run just fine.So... for my Raspberry Pi 4Bs, this may not be the best camera option available anymore, but for my Raspberry Pi Zeros, this is a terrific choice. I suspect that the new Raspberry Pi 5 family, just released, may not support "legacy camera support" at all, based upon what I've read... so I would not encourage buying this camera for use with one of those.But for older, less powerful Raspberry Pi computers, this is an outstanding solution. I'm using it now, and its performance on my systems has proven to be superb.

Je voulais faire des Timelapse d’impression 3D avec.J’avoue que la caméra est bien par rapport à la taille de l’objectif et à ce qui est annoncé.Mais la qualité reste assez médiocre, n’attendais pas de faire des Timelapse ou photos de fou avec … possible de l’utiliser comme moniteur pour votre usage personnel. Mais pour réaliser des réel ou autre, je préconise que vous passez un autre chose.

Presa per monitorare una stampante 3d da remoto tramite rpi fa benissimo il suo lavoro, ottima qualità video, ottima sensibilità in condizioni di scarsa luminosità e ottimo il gruppo lenti per regolare la messa a fuoco. Altra nota positiva è la totale assenza di calore sul pcb anche dopo ore e stando in una camera chiusa a 40 gradi. La consiglio.

Überraschend gute Bildqualität zu einem phenomenalen Preis. Funktioniert bei mir hervorragend an einem Raspberry Pi Zero 2, vor allem auch deshalb weil der Anbieter zwei Paar Anschluß-Flachbandkabel mitliefert, so daß die Kam sowohl an die "großen" wie auch an den kleinen Raspi passen. Super.

Aucun reproche à faire, les informations sont exactes

全体的に色味が赤紫っぽくなって夜間カメラのような画像になった値段は安いけど、残念なカメラでした