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Raspberry Pi announces $50 12-megapixel camera with interchangeable lenses

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Much better article from official blog: https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/new-product-raspberry-pi-hi...

For anyone curious about how "good" the camera is: with the lens they sell it's about as good for still pictures as a modern phone. Somewhat worse for video, depending on your application, due to stabilization, software, and the 2-lane interface.

More specifically, the sensor is a Sony IMX477, slightly better than the IMX377 featured in the Nexus 6P, Nexus 5X, HTC 10, and Mavic Pro drone.

Pretty nice, for $50 in a neat little package. This kind of thing is usually a good bit more expensive.

the standardized lens mount will be huge (as in popular and successful)

you could buy C-mount "unauthorised"(1) clone camera modules from China for several years now.

(1) Pee foundation actually puts DRM chip on camera modules to deter third party accessories.

Could you be more specific about the DRM? I thought that they just supported a few cameras and didn't care too much about third-party clones (for better or worse).

https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1088506051295567872

For $50, it is reasonable. That said, they could make improvements with their cameras.

Would be nice if they would use something similar to a Sony IMX327/290 for their next NoIR camera. That particular set of Sony sensors (STARVIS) would be much better for low light than their existing lineup.

Anybody found info on the max frame rate? High frame rate is super common in phones but hard to find elsewhere, and I need it for a project...

2-lane MIPI, they didnt even bother to wire other 2 pairs to the connector when upgrading Pee4. Not to mention Videocore h264 encoder is limited to 1080@30.

The original pi camera can be made to run at 660 fps with reduced line count, pretty neat hack!

https://blog.robertelder.org/recording-660-fps-on-raspberry-...

I want one. It would be really nice if they had a monochrome model for metrology purposes but for $50 I won't complain.

Maybe there is a way to pull the raw image off before it gets bayer filtered. It would not be the same but might be closer to what you want since it would be higher res.

Well, for a 50$ camera, I'd be comfortable attempting to debayer it. Basically, scratching off the Bayer filter using some sort of tool that wont scratch the silicon.

Never thought of that. I have plenty of old cameras I could practice on.

Do we have more sample photos to judge the quality?

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