You can get an old phone with an equivalent camera for 25 USD.
New 8-megapixel camera board on sale at $25
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#22Small question if anyone might know: are the physical dimensions of this new v2.0 camera board identical to the past ones? (e.g. version 1.3?). For the most parts they look identical.
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#23Is there a full datasheet available for it like there was for the OV7670 if we want to perform more bitwise calculations with it? http://www.cutedigi.com/pub/sensor/Imaging/OV7670-Datasheet....
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#24I would like to see a round cable version. I know this may not fit the design ethos, but I've had projects that I really wanted to use the Pi+camera and couldn't because of camera positioning (a 1m round cable would have worked) .
I use this [1] HDMI Cable Extension which allows you to use and HDMI cable between them. Works perfectly.
[1] https://www.tindie.com/products/freto/pi-camera-hdmi-cable-e...
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#25I've been looking into home security lately and with the more expensive camera-kits (say $2k+)... I've been wondering if a de-centralized raspberry-pi setup might be so much better. And with 8mp I think I should start a POC, right?
Have you looked at https://zoneminder.com/ and the IP cameras it supports?
Definitely consider zoneminder. I've used it with Foscam and Crenova ip cameras with good results. The cameras I got were $30 for a basic dome and $70 for a pan-tilt.
However, if you do decide to go this route I would be prepared to put all of the cameras on a separate network without access to the internet or the rest of the lan. They are literally little linux machines that shouldn't be trusted. Setup a firewall that ensure they can only connect to the zoneminder server.
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#26Interesting is the 4K video mode and the 120fps and 180fps modes. I wonder to what extent this will be usable/available on an Rpi.
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#27It is also seems to be an infra-red camera, so I ll be able to do pictures like those with it (http://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/8539757) , not that artsy of course and make a timelapse.
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#28It is also seems to be an infra-red camera, so I ll be able to do pictures like those with it ( http://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/8539757 ) , not that artsy of course and make a timelapse.
There's two models - one with an IR filter and one without. (Slightly confusingly to me, the "NoIR" model is the one that can see IR, though I suppose the pun was too tempting.)
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#29It is also seems to be an infra-red camera, so I ll be able to do pictures like those with it ( http://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/8539757 ) , not that artsy of course and make a timelapse.
There's two models - one with an IR filter and one without. (Slightly confusingly to me, the "NoIR" model is the one that can see IR, though I suppose the pun was too tempting.)
I believe it means no IR filter, since that is how you get IR camera, by not having IR filter in front of sensor.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are a few projects out there [0][1] that make it fairly simple to set up a motion detection capable solution with a simple USB webcam. I'm currently waiting on a cheap infrared camera from China ($4!) for use with my Pi, but I've done testing with an older Logitech HD camera and have had excellent results. [0] Motion: http://lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/WebHome [1] MotionEye: https://github.com/ccrisan/mo…
If you don't mind, could you please post a link to the $4 IR camera?
Indeed. (I have a project that needs to distinguish between cats in the dark. No kidding!)