They expanded the lineup for the Camera Module 3 to include a standard (75°) and wide (120°) FoV lens on both the regular and NoIR (no IR filter) camera modules, and all variants use the Sony IMX708, which bumps resolution from 8 to 12 megapixels, and almost doubles the sensor size.<p>The most important upgrade is the inclusion of autofocus (using PDAF) with full support from libcamera and Picamera2. It is pretty snappy though not quite as good as something like a Pixel or iPhone.<p>There's also a new M12-mount HQ camera, for the same price of $50, which is useful for some more specialty lenses (though I haven't run into any M12 lenses in my own work!).
Of course. Still no ability to go above 120FPS. I have tons of comments on this in my history about trying to extract raw frames from the RPi camera modules and go faster if anyone cares to help.<p>So ridiculous these sensors and data lanes on everything embedded can't get us 240FPS at even VGA resolution.
Does this make the Pi webcam a viable project now?<p>I looked into making one during the pandemic - but i think lack of auto-focus was one of the things that caused me to rule it out at the time…
Looks interesting, but could find no links to full-res images.<p>How can we assess a ~12MP camera based on examining images from it that are all inexplicably reduced to 0.3MP?
The camera modules(with PIR, PTZ, auto-focus, night-mode) on a 38mm*38mm board were a solved problem at lower cost due to huge volume of IP cameras from China. However the code on those modules are fully closed(most running an older version of Linux).<p>RPi's modules are priced reasonably enough to compete against clones from China's vendor, really hard to do, but it did it so far like a magic.
Is anyone aware of any projects to do auto-zoom on a fisheye lens? (ie, the camera is set up to see the whole room, and then software crops that to just show the area with a person in it, and then re-export that video as a new source so that other software can use it without needing to be fisheye-aware)
Can we PLEASE have a proper 35mm full frame sensor in a Raspberry Pi camera? Something like a IMX521?<p>I realize it would be $1500 but I'd buy it in a heartbeat, there is SO much I could do with a hacker-friendly DSLR-quality sensor.
I want to build a device/product that needs a board+wide-angle-camera combo? Board does not need to be fast. I suspect, even a fast arduino might work.<p>What are other great combos that exist out there?
if you need more specific MIPI CSI sensors RPi compatible you can check this company:<p><a href="https://www.vision-components.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.vision-components.com/</a><p>their support wasn't exceptional in the past but kinda improved recently.<p>the modular camera module ecosystem is quite interesting, using this for research.