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New 12MP Raspberry Pi HQ Camera

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Seems like a good deal. I don't currently have a use for it but I can see others liking it.

Hopefully it'll also drop the price on the old cameras. Those are more interesting for AI related things because you don't really have the horsepower to process 4k on that anyway

The hot question is of course: can this be used with a Pi as a web Cam? Because with the current homeworking enthousiasm so many people buy good quality webcams that almost everything is sold out. And to rub it in the current best selling webcam is a 4 year old Logitech 920. Did technology not improve since?

I saw on the Pi forums that somework is being done by people but it is not there yet.

I was trying to source a camera as well but finally found that using Open Broadcaster with an iPhone running and NDI app is a great solution.

You run OBS with an NDI receiving plugin and a plugin for making a virtual webcam. Then on the iOS device (really any phone could work) you run something similar to https://apps.apple.com/us/app/camera-for-obs-studio/id135283....

Obviously this works best if you can find a spare phone to use and have good 5 GHz WiFi.

If you have an Android phone you can use DroidCamX, and it supports direct USB for higher framerates than WiFi.

I dont see why it wouldn't be possible to connect over RTP - Or you could use something that emulates UVC like this, https://github.com/wlhe/uvc-gadget

There's the UV4L project that will let the Pi connect to Jitsi Meet.

https://www.linux-projects.org/uv4l/tutorials/jitsi-meet/

Not sure if there's a way to hook it up to Zoom.

https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/use-raspberry-pi-as-pc-w...

The Logitech 920 is still a GREAT webcam. I'm not sure what there is to improve?

It actually got worse, apparently they removed the built-in h264 encoder. I tried to use it and it is certainly not turn key, you need a special gstreamer pipeline

Why does the industry use things like 12m pixels to describe resolution? I found it is very difficult to translate it into maximum width and height.

In the article, I think saying any c mount off the shelf lens will work is also not accurate. The sensor size has to be considered to find the right lens

> Why does the industry use things like 12m pixels to describe resolution? I found it is very difficult to translate it into maximum width and height.

Because to the average consumer, 12MP is easier to understand compared to 4000x3000px. Megapixel is cool sounding technobabble, not unlike gigaflop. It's like "in less than 12 parsecs", the average person doesn't understand, but they know that 12 is less than 13 and greater than 11.

Technically, Mega-pixel is an SI unit (right?)...

Any idea if companies will create a board that allows for multiple cameras on one raspberry pi?

Maybe this eventually (or now, not sure): https://stereopi.com/

The foundation already does, their Compute Module breakout board CMIO v3 has dual camera connectors.

Does this camera have IR support? Most home cameras need IR (baby monitors / home security). How would that work I wonder? I guess you'd need an IR LED array to go with it.

Is there an easy way to remove the hot mirror filter and make it a full spectrum camera ? Adding a high pass filter could even make it a purely IR camera.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/camera/hq...

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