Is building your own camera stupid or genius?

[NickHeavy]

 

The Raspberry Pi foundation recently released their new "High Quality Camera". While it looks good on paper, you need to build it to be able to use it. How does it hold up to a cellphone? What is it meant for?

 

For more info head to the Raspberry Pi Foundation's site and where to buy: https://lmg.gg/3mx2I

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[BrinkGG]

"High Quality" is a relative term 

 

For real though, this is a significant increase in quality over the old rasPi sensor. I'm excited to see these in use for long term timelapse, CCTV and more  

[mahyar]

im generally a fan of raspberry pi and arm sbcs i was really hoping that they make something like this

[SupaKomputa]

Good for short term experimental learning. Nothing to take serious for.

[coonwhiz]

The title on Youtube is misspelled. "Builring your own camera - Stupid or Genius?"

[TVwazhere]

@CPotter you're fired

[NickHeavy]

The title was fixed, thanks. 

1 hour ago, BrinkGG said:

"High Quality" is a relative term 

 

For real though, this is a significant increase in quality over the old rasPi sensor. I'm excited to see these in use for long term timelapse, CCTV and more

Yes it's much better than the previous Pi cameras.  I will be messing with it to try to get  more out of the sensor as in the current configuration there are only 2 data lanes to the Pi through the current connector. A hat will be needed, or something to get the other 2 lanes of data. 1080p 240 fps is the dream.  

[BrinkGG]

2 minutes ago, NickHeavy said:

The title was fixed, thanks. 

Yes it's much better than the previous Pi cameras.  I will be messing with it to try to get  more out of the sensor as in the current configuration there are only 2 data lanes to the Pi through the current connector. A hat will be needed, or something to get the other 2 lanes of data. 1080p 240 fps is the dream.  

RasPi High Speed camera in the future?

[NickHeavy]

2 minutes ago, BrinkGG said:

RasPi High Speed camera in the future?

Personal project, if  I can get it working and it looks good, maybe another video. But don't hold your breath for it. 

[mritunjaymusale]

Since you can install android on Pi can someone port the pixel's camera app and reroute it to use this camera instead?, maybe then we can see some improved results from a normal camera usage point of view.

[Nystemy]

There is a scope of applications where the raspberry Pi and its cameras as well are often deployed, and that is industry.

Its a small, relatively "high performance", network equipped, computer with a fair assortment of GPIO, and it has support for a camera too.

 

It's like the dream Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) if you give it a decent case and an expansion board and it suddenly competes with PLCs that  can cost into the hundreds of dollars, and then they typically still don't have networking as standard, or even a a 100 MB worth of RAM, or SD card support, or networking....

Downside with the Raspberry Pi compared to a PLC is that a Raspberry Pi doesn't come in a case, it doesn't "just work" straight out of the box, nor does it use 12-48 volt power...

It requires a lot more work to get it up and running. (Though most of that work is software wrangling, something most industry technicians honestly don't want to deal with.)
_{(though, one can just buy a kit that includes nearly everything one needs to turn a RPi into a proper PLC, but still, its extra hassle and it lacks the name brand, familiarity and most importantly the certifications of a PLC provided by an actual PLC vendor.)}

[idmb]

So why didn't we see a bunch of C-mount adapters used here? Give it some good optics and show off! 

 

Also it shouldn't be hard to script something to have a shutter button to just trigger the command line? 

[Dwarfs Lord]

23 hours ago, NickHeavy said:

The title was fixed, thanks.

When I first saw the title and thumbnail, I thought you were going for a Ring alternative... And I thought, "Oh my, that's a good pun."

Well, maybe in the future you can be buildring a Home automation system or something

[NickHeavy]

15 hours ago, idmb said:

So why didn't we see a bunch of C-mount adapters used here? Give it some good optics and show off! 

 

Also it shouldn't be hard to script something to have a shutter button to just trigger the command line? 

Not enough time to make the mounts. The scope of this video was exploratory, see if it was worth putting more effort into the camera. I think there is, hence why I will be making this a personal project. BUT the numbers don't lie.