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if you're anything like me you saw the new high quality camera from the pi

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foundation and thought well the pi foundation comes out with some versatile

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and affordable hardware like the raspberry pi surely with a name like

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that it must be two things a camera and

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high quality but what do words mean

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this is clearly not a camera until you build

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it and by quality do they mean

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it never breaks down or do they mean it takes good pictures

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can this really be better than the other options

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the high quality camera is the pi foundation's third generation camera

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module it's compatible with every raz pi except the early pi zeros and like the

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v1 and v2 it connects to your raspberry pi with a ribbon cable via its mipi csi

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2 serial interface now as you'd expect from a pi product the module has

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surprisingly competent specs at least on paper including sony's imx 477 sensor

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which is similar to what you'd find in a gopro or a dji mavic a tripod mount and

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a built-in metal lens mount that feels well high quality as you'd also expect

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it's reasonably priced at just fifty dollars although by the time you factor

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in everything else you're going to need a raspi sd card and lens it's more like

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a hundred to two hundred dollars it's not strictly necessary by the way but

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for bonus marks we also 3d printed a housing for ours that both protects it

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from incidental static discharge and from bumps and allows us to use it

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like a point-and-shoot camera so our config came in at about 185 dollars

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now you obviously won't get the water resistance or image stabilization that

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you'd find on a gopro but for the price it actually still looks pretty good

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this sensor captures 12.33 megapixel

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stills in jpeg png and even raw and we

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can even shoot video at up to 1080p 50fps h.264 it supports changing the iso

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shutter speed white balance you know all the usual camera controls and thanks to

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its c-mount lens flange pretty much any lens from very cheap to

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very expensive can be made to fit with the right adapter you can even do

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in-camera image processing like balancing colors or adding filters like

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an oil paint or watercolor effect to your image if you're feeling adventurous

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you can add some ai and get notified when your neighbor takes your parking

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spot with basic image recognition you can make your own smart door with alexa

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integration or you can have a highly customizable security camera with

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features that match or even exceed some of the high-end systems out there

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maybe the coolest part is that it also happens to be a whole computer with a

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built-in browser for you to check out lttstore.com

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but there is a gotcha to explain let's

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talk semantics the raspberry pi foundation calls this a

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camera module in their documentation but some other mipi camera makers draw a

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distinction between a sensor module

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which contains no isp or image signal

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processor on board meaning that the attached computer has to do all the work

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of denoising and debayering the raw sensor data and a

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camera module which does contain an isp

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and outputs a pre-processed image to the host computer which in many cases would

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also be a raspi or similar

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now a camera module costs more but that

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extra hardware can perform more advanced processing compared to the raspberry

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pi's built-in isp or it can free up processing resources

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that can instead be dedicated to things like scene detection and facial

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recognition it can also act as a kind of translation

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layer simplifying upgrades by allowing the host system which remember might not

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necessarily be a raspberry pi to reuse

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existing drivers and software rather than requiring new ones to be written

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every time you want to plug in a new sensor so

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the gotcha by some definitions this is a

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sensor module which hasn't gotten much software support yet meaning that there

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are only a few graphical user interfaces that work with it at all and even those

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have their limits pi camera app for example gives you an easy

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ish to use interface and support for both photo and video but it hasn't been

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updated in nearly five years other than a bug fix back in january and might

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never be updated to fully support the new modules full resolution and features

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that means to unlock its full potential you'll need to have the know-how and

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patience to adjust parameters in command line now it isn't all that difficult and

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the provided guide has all the commands listed for easy reference with a short

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summary of each function but it's very clear that if your goal is to

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quickly capture the moment this ain't it chief

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which isn't to say that we didn't try armed with our 3d printed high quality

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camera and a 3d printed tripod brandon

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went on a photography expedition and he's back to tell you about his findings

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let me start by saying this camera is such a cool idea it's small it's cheap

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and like all pi products your imagination is the limit to its use

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now i took the camera out for about an hour and while it was a fun new

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experience i am overall disappointed with the results in my testing i took

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the raspi camera out into the world with a pixel 4 for comparison i did my best

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to match the composition of the razpi camera on the pixel 4 since they were

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vastly different fields of view our razpi camera setup was a very rough

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experience to use and we had to use command line for all the actual camera

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functions so i definitely would have preferred to have a dedicated shutter

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button usability aside how does it compare to something like the pixel 4

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well that is where things get worse for the raspi camera let's start with the

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positives when it comes to the stills the raspi camera does an above average

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job with overall sharpness and detail thanks to the sony imx 477 sensor

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unfortunately compared to the pixel 4 stills which i even zoomed in on to

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better match the field of views between the cameras the razpi has some rough

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processing issues in all the photos i took there is a clear magenta cast in

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the photos it does a good job of isolating subjects

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with a shallow depth of field but especially since these c-mount lenses

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aren't anything special in terms of optics the pixel 4's portrait mode

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produces just as if not a more pleasing bokeh video wise unfortunately the story

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is similar the video is soft lacks overall dynamic range the detail can be

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improved a reasonable amount with higher quality lenses but the sensor with this

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current processing feels like a phone video from about four years ago it

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really goes to show that all the years of r d google and apple have put into

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image processing make all the difference in a great result when you're working

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with limited hardware i am sure with the right engineers working on the

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processing this sensor module could be used for content creation but for now it

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is best to use it for the many other applications you would use a camera for

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in general well that's a bummer but

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realistically i wasn't expecting a 50

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module to replace a purpose-built camera anyway so let's talk about what it's

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actually good for in practical terms if i wanted a

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solution for monitoring my farm of 3d printers or my

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lab experiment the usability deficiencies here are less important and

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it does live up to its name pretty well offering high quality especially for the

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cost the raspberry pi foundation has also committed to producing these things

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until at least 2026 so unlike some other

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sensor modules i can count on future availability if i need more

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so the reason it exists falls in line perfectly with the raspberry pi

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foundation's overall goal of putting the power of computing and digital making

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into the hands of people all over the world it might not be the best camera in

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an apples to apples comparison with a phone for example but it is a great

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camera for experiments education and

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just cool projects that can benefit from high quality

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but don't need the best quality

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in conclusion then it's not dumb to build your own camera

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but if you have a somewhat recent phone you're probably going to want to stick

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enjoyed this video you might also enjoy our uh cheap home security camera video

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that we did a little while ago when i was super mad about uh subscription

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subscription fees on the you know affordable consumer cameras it was also

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raspberry pi based you'll have a look