FINALLY another video, so sorry for the delay! It's a big one so if you want to skip to a specific section just use the Table of Contents that is in the description. I apologize for the lack of videos lately, should be another one very soon.
DroneBot Workshop - this should say “FINALLY - Someone realizes that NOBODY before you considered a THOROUGH Rpi camera educational video that explains ALL OPTIONS!!!” Thank you. I’m STRUGGLING to even GET STARTED with my Rpi and all my fun gadgets that sit here collecting dust & depression.... Videos like this help a lot and provide encouragement.... Now all I need is the rest of the knowledge I’m missing... I’ve never wanted to learn something more, and never had such a hard time finding an easy to understand way to learn it. Sucks.
I you want to use it as a CCTV over the WiFi - github.com/jacksonliam/mjpg-streamer?fbclid=IwAR1TIW2y4dFjNfSwIEQAZpxGWCilNi69YgPxsxVeEJ_LAFn3PyJDc6AliJY
Your channel has become one of the first resources I look to for information on a given subject. Thorough, accurate, pertinent information. No clickbait, sales pitch, or misinformation. I thank you for sharing your knowledge and for the time and effort you put into each of your videos. It literally saves a person incredible amounts of time, money not having to duplicate all of the testing you kindly share with us.
The greatest teacher in explaining electronics I have ever seen on UA-cam and compares equally to my pneumatic instructor which was the best I ever encountered You have the right combination of a lot of great qualities to be able to transfer knowledge to people that want to learn about electronics, which is the future.
I loved and chuckled reading your “hey don’t forget to do these things” notes on you video test image! I really enjoy your well thought out videos and well written articles.
When I was reading one of your comments a day or so ago I realized that I had failed to send any positive comments about you workshop sessions. Your included details such as taking time to refer to Amperes instead of amps is an excellent one. So many places assume that the customer KNOWS a fact when If it's a new device or product they might not know. Like many people I buy a lot of things from Amazon. It would be so much more helpful if instead of showing several different photos of an integrate circuit the would post a link to a data sheet for that device. And your workshop fills a lots voids. A recent example is a workshop where along the way you explained that if you did "such and such" a function or operation might or probably fail. What a person should do instead is....(explanation). Thanks so much to your good and useful work. I have become a fan and have shared links to your workshops with friends who, like me, create things for themselves or others. Sincerely Mike Flood Illinois, USA.
Watched this prior to purchasing my HQ cameras. Learned how to gstream dual RPi V2 cameras on the Jetson Xavier NX. Received the 2 HQ cameras and a StereoPi CM3+ board, but couldn't get beyond raspistill & raspivid. Spent the past week searching YT, wikis, & forums. Learned a lot about installing OpenCV, uv4l, etc. But, couldn't find the answers I needed until I reviewed this video and followed your links. Excellent tutorials! Thank you so much for showing us the light at the end of the tunnel.🙏 Now, I simply gotta go & giterdun.😎💨
I have talked myself out of buying the Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera several times due to my lack of knowledge about Raspberry Pi cameras. Now all I need to do is decide which lens I want to buy with the Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera. Thanks for the excellent video.
Hi Bill You have set a high standard in presentation with de-mystifying and getting us fellow Life Long Learners up and running in practical applications. My new year wish is to work towards your standard in helping others. Cheers from a small farm in New Zealand Lx
When I broke my Pi (Ver 1.3) camera lens, I just removed the broken lens, preserved the sensor and installed a new housing and lens, added a cutout in the housing for the ribbon cable, aligned it over the sensor and secured with hot melt glue. Works great, plus allowed use of a longer lens.
A lot of time and effort has gone into this review. I’m sure it’s going to be a reference video on the Pi camera’s for years to come. Having used the V2 camera in my MotionEyesOS projects, I am aways impressed by the quality of my stills and videos my camera provides. Still waiting for stock on the Raspberry Pi hi-quality camera’s to be able purchase one. Thanks again for this review. Be safe and healthy and hope to you in your next video
Love your videos DroneBot! You pay so much attention to getting all the details correct, I wanted to let you know what '4k' or 2160p video is actually 3840x2160 rather than the 3480x2160 that you show in your video. REAL 4k video is actually 4096x2160 that most native 4k projectors support.
I am a printing press operator by trade, and the plate mounter I use has two Pis with cameras. One of the issues it has is that some vibrations (like what is generated when peeling the plate off of the stickyback to reposition it) can cause the interface to glitch, which can in turn cause a complete Pi restart. Initially it was thought to be a poor connection, but this plate mounter model seems to have this problem universally.
Thank you very much for your videos. I enjoy the clear, simple explanation and comparisons of various hardware. Personally, I'm disappointed in the direction the raspberry pi and it's bits have gone. Rather than producing new, affordable updated versions of their stuff, they've just decided to make things bigger and more expensive. The new camera (with lens ) approaches $100, the pi4 with bits needed comes close to the same price. At that price, It's getting uncomfortably close in price to much better options for any project I could imagine. What I used to love about the pi is that you could buy lots of them ,and have multiple projects or cheaply experiment.
Just found the workshop. My kind of learning. LOVE the power points. Why not teach us like students? We are aren't we? Thank you for taking the time to share these videos.
Well done Bill.. it has inspired me to dust off some of my cameras and even get a new one or two and set up a few little experiments... It has been a while since I have used one.. Glad to see you back by the way.. hope you are having a great summer! It is nice to know that during the cold and miserable winter time you will have more videos.. But it is time to make hay as they say.. see you in the funny papers..
Thanks, Bill, that was a very informative video, as I want to start using my version 2 camera with my old v3 Pi and a bird box for next year in the garden. All the best Bob in the UK
not properly tested at last pictures i know there were limitations...... appreciate the whole video,was so informative and kudos to your hard work sir. so informative. subscribed to your channel.
It would have been nice when comparing the Canon EOS to the Raspberry Pi cameras during the color test, if the same colors samples had been displayed side by side.
This is made me think about a telescope I've got, perhaps I could use a Pi with a camera somehow connected to my telescope. BTY how hard is it to add audio to the video on a Pi?
Hello from Belgium, very nice vidéo, as usual. A little suggestion, if you don't mind. When comparing two results on one screen, display the same part of the photo, this would allow a better comparison. Thanks for all. Regards.
Enjoyed this video. Was disappointed by the color changes in video as you moved. How would you record and sync sound in video recording? Would like to see a hack to get a 12 or 16 megapixel camera from a current smart phone working on raspberry pi.
Thanks for such a thorough and well thought-out overview on using these cameras. As usual, very useful! I, as a number of others, would love to see you explain how you might incorporate audio with the video. Since the Pi doesn't have any audio input and the camera modules don't have audio, I'm told incorporating a USB mic is the route to go. Do you agree? Can you show how to capture video with audio in real-time, or if it would be otherwise necessary to capture audio and video simultaneously (as separate files) and then merge them in the Pi to a single H.264 video with audio? Thanks so much!!
The samsung s20 Ultra, which goes on sale March 6, is being marketed for its “Space Zoom” capabilities. In addition to wide and ultra-wide cameras, its telephoto lens with a folded zoom provides 10X optical and 100X digital zoom. We need this!
Thanks for the great summary of the cameras, however it would have been nice to also have more comparisons on the video usage of these cameras, such as ghosting of moving images, as well as day and night usage. You did wave your hand around a little for 1 camera, but not enough to see how much ghosting there would be in real life usage. I'm thinking of typical pi usage such as diy security cameras, garden animal watching, etc. (We have a hawk that sometimes picks up bread from our garden so it would be cool to get it on video.). Thanks again.
Hi, great video as always. That was cool swapping out the camera module, I hadn't thought that would be so easy. Fish eye lens etc could be very handy. Have you found or tested any ways of getting audio into a video recording on the PI? I have an USB audio interface from Adafruit, but haven' t spent enough time to see if I could mix audio from that and video from the CSI Pi camera. Best wishes and keep up the great work!
Nice checkup. Sure you wont be able to lift the whole bit set of options available with the test charts you used - but you ticked for a nice small subset. Color correction settings, black level adjustment and white balance are often in your hands as the operator - thus the defaults might not always fit to a certain real world unit but would need adjusting according to various aspects including operation powers (even if there are regulators and references on board) and to the operation temperature as well, just to name the most important ones. When going for image compression and file formats - this is pure aspect of your software and processor setup. Many of this might see alteration - thus its beyond the system border of the "camera" subsystem and partially to even the headline of your video. Install the image compression library of your choice and use it in your programs... thats what raw (with even 10, 12 or more bits per pyhsical pixel, side note: bayer pattern with RGGB, RGBC, ...) and RGB image ouputs formats are helpful for: as an intermediate format for giving you maximum freedom, including also extra adjustments for WB or even lens distortion corrections. - that was probably now meant for people that want to go for an even deeper understanding of the system and its building blocks. I personally would have liked to see a true 1:1 comparison with all cameras taking the exact aspect ratio defined markers on the black-and-white testing charts with a later reading on where the horizontal and vertical lines to vanish into gray. (hint: JPEG storage is not the way to go when doing camera quality comparisons.) and maybe further also would liked to see some direct comparison between all color patches of the RGB test chart along with a noise analysis (might take multiple pictures in a row to see if its a static noise or an acutally per shot noise.) - but dont worry, its something that people need to know that want to go to true limits and not just roughly gauge the best price to performance aspects of their home or semi-commercial application projects. Thanks for your efforts and great works in giving such a well tailored overall show on this definitely needed to be presented topic.
There is an error at 8:00, the digits used are transposed. That 4K UHD resolution should be 3840x2160, not 3480x2160. Which is 8,294,400 pixels, not 7,516,800 pixels. There is another error at 8:47, H.265 is not needed to do 4K. 4K is perfectly valid for H.264. H.265 is a different codec (HEVC) that is more efficient than H.264, but both H.264 and H.265 can be used with a wide variety of resolutions, including 4K. Note - The specific GPU firmware implementation in the Pi doesn't support 4K, but that's not because of the lack of H.265 hardware.
Great Vary professional... Thanks for putting together a total camera tutorial... Yes its long, but thrall... and someone interested in this stuff does not mind in the least... You are vary good at this, and helping people is how you get to Heven....lol
@8:05 4K resolution is essentially quad full-HD, which requires both the horizontal and vertical resolutions be doubled. So, 1920x1080 becomes 3840x2160. You've transposed two numerals in the 4K resolution shown, claiming 3480x2160 resolution. This should be corrected.
The resolution of the cameras was better than I had expected. The lowest I think was the V2. I cannot remember which one it was but I THINK it was the V2 which had a poorer White/Grey in the Stills. I used a similar White and Grey card and a Colour scale when it was critical and a Resolution thing similar in purpose but different appearance to yours for checking my lenses and focusing on my Nikons over the years. Interestingly my fir digital camera after a lot of critisism had an image size of 3-4 M-Pixel and even my Nikon only has a 12-13 M Pixel size but the sensor is very much larger than those in the study. Overall, not to be sniffed at I think. Colour not perfect (various red and blue casts and White/Grey scale variable) but resolution OK. Amateur Photographer would be critical of this review but it is OK for me :-).I should have also said I have some C-Mount Lenses somewhere which makes the HQ module more attractive but I cannot honestly see that it was much better.
@dronebotworkshop, referencing @9:50, I just had a HELL of a weekend trying to get 2 arducam RPI HQ cameras to work, to no avail. After purchasing a branded RPI HQ camera I was successful. I can only guess that the arducams were intended for Jetsons because the MIPI connector was 22 pin 📌n each. The branded camera had 15 pins. Still can’t get the branded camera to talk to my RPI 5, but that MAY be a cable issue: RPI 5 connectors are 22 pins, and my 15-22 pin cable did NOT work. Anyway, I returned the Arducams. Now I just need to justify to the family CEO getting a 2nd camera for my telescope, LOL!
hi, great video and 1 question...you are using a raspberry pi, is there a reason for this over arduino ? could you have used the arduino with expansion board? curious. thx
This was an excellent and comprehensive video on the Pi Cameras. Thank you for sharing this. I just got a Pi 4 for some image recognition work, so picking the right camera will be important - so I plan to watch your video again. Can you recommend a good case for the Pi4 that accommodates the camera ribbon cable? I'm not sure if active cooling will be required. Did you mention what the 16 mm zoom lens would be equivalent to in regular 35 mm photography? An 80 mm zoom lens?
Thanks, It was very informative. I just bought my first raspberry pi and so far, I love it. I want to write some new camera software, but that may take a while... If I do I will let you know, lol!
What is the sensor that you’re wearing? (blue wristband) . Is it a pressure/temp sensor for medical applications?? Sure would be nice to see a project like that.
very informative .... I would like to get the Focal length of arducam OV5647 on focussed object and run time. Please can show some insights on it. how to get the focal length of lens during focussing.
Great video thanks for posting this. I've got the v2 noir and ir cameras and have been considering the new HQ one to upgrade my MotionEyeOS pi cctv project. Might explore the fish eye lense after that video.
Hi, 0:435:37 - it is a Camera SERIAL interface (CSI) not standard interface. 5:45 - The interface uses differential (balanced) signalling, the cable doesn't. Cheers :-)
Is there any reason that you can't mention the prices of the cameras as you show them? It's a pain to go back and look it up when you can simply tell us in the video in the moment. This is a great intro video and I enjoyed your production. Cheers and have a good day!
QUESTION! It's a very nice video giving detailed explanation for different cameras. I'm searching for the most suitable RPi camera that I can use on a distance of ~3m for color processing application. Can I have an idea on the distance between the camera and the measured targets in your video? I may choose the RPi HQ camera but the main disadvantage is it takes only a segment of the video, so it may not be very suitable in my case or maybe I can use two camera in parallel!
Excellent work. I have an old practika film slr with couple of m42 thread lenses. Can old slr be retrofitted with this cam. Or can m42 thread lenses be used.
Relly liked the hardware portion of this video but image comparison was very qualitative rather than quantitative. You only compared the vibrance and neglected the color shifts and the dynamic range disparities. Those differences were quite large. In the resolution comparisons it would be best to have the right image overlap the left image so that we would be comparing the same parts of the resolution chart for an "apples to apples comparison". The right and left sides have very different resolution patterns.
FINALLY another video, so sorry for the delay! It's a big one so if you want to skip to a specific section just use the Table of Contents that is in the description.
I apologize for the lack of videos lately, should be another one very soon.
It's possible to have the chapters on the video timeline support.google.com/youtube/answer/9884579?hl=en
do one for the Jetson
DroneBot Workshop - this should say “FINALLY - Someone realizes that NOBODY before you considered a THOROUGH Rpi camera educational video that explains ALL OPTIONS!!!” Thank you. I’m STRUGGLING to even GET STARTED with my Rpi and all my fun gadgets that sit here collecting dust & depression.... Videos like this help a lot and provide encouragement.... Now all I need is the rest of the knowledge I’m missing... I’ve never wanted to learn something more, and never had such a hard time finding an easy to understand way to learn it. Sucks.
You do put a lot of work into your videos, and I guess quality > quantity.
I you want to use it as a CCTV over the WiFi - github.com/jacksonliam/mjpg-streamer?fbclid=IwAR1TIW2y4dFjNfSwIEQAZpxGWCilNi69YgPxsxVeEJ_LAFn3PyJDc6AliJY
Your channel has become one of the first resources I look to for information on a given subject.
Thorough, accurate, pertinent information. No clickbait, sales pitch, or misinformation.
I thank you for sharing your knowledge and for the time and effort you put into each of your videos. It literally saves a person incredible amounts of time, money not having to duplicate all of the testing you kindly share with us.
And no distracting music ... a HUGE thank you for that.
The greatest teacher in explaining electronics I have ever seen on UA-cam and compares equally to my pneumatic instructor which was the best I ever encountered
You have the right combination of a lot of great qualities to be able to transfer knowledge to people that want to learn about electronics, which is the future.
I loved and chuckled reading your “hey don’t forget to do these things” notes on you video test image! I really enjoy your well thought out videos and well written articles.
When I was reading one of your comments a day or so ago I realized that I had failed to send any positive comments about you workshop sessions. Your included details such as taking time to refer to Amperes instead of amps is an excellent one.
So many places assume that the customer KNOWS a fact when If it's a new device or product they might not know.
Like many people I buy a lot of things from Amazon. It would be so much more helpful if instead of showing several different photos of an integrate circuit the would post a link to a data sheet for that device.
And your workshop fills a lots voids.
A recent example is a workshop where along the way you explained that if you did "such and such" a function or operation might or probably fail. What a person should do instead is....(explanation).
Thanks so much to your good and useful work. I have become a fan and have shared links to your workshops with friends who, like me, create things for themselves or others.
Sincerely
Mike Flood
Illinois, USA.
Watched this prior to purchasing my HQ cameras. Learned how to gstream dual RPi V2 cameras on the Jetson Xavier NX. Received the 2 HQ cameras and a StereoPi CM3+ board, but couldn't get beyond raspistill & raspivid. Spent the past week searching YT, wikis, & forums. Learned a lot about installing OpenCV, uv4l, etc. But, couldn't find the answers I needed until I reviewed this video and followed your links. Excellent tutorials!
Thank you so much for showing us the light at the end of the tunnel.🙏
Now, I simply gotta go & giterdun.😎💨
I have talked myself out of buying the Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera several times due to my lack of knowledge about Raspberry Pi cameras. Now all I need to do is decide which lens I want to buy with the Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera. Thanks for the excellent video.
if there is a video more thorough about Raspberry pi cameras, well then I just would not believe it. Well done!
Hi Bill
You have set a high standard in presentation with de-mystifying and getting us fellow Life Long Learners up and running in practical applications.
My new year wish is to work towards your standard in helping others.
Cheers from a small farm in New Zealand
Lx
When I broke my Pi (Ver 1.3) camera lens, I just removed the broken lens, preserved the sensor and installed a new housing and lens, added a cutout in the housing for the ribbon cable, aligned it over the sensor and secured with hot melt glue. Works great, plus allowed use of a longer lens.
A lot of time and effort has gone into this review. I’m sure it’s going to be a reference video on the Pi camera’s for years to come.
Having used the V2 camera in my MotionEyesOS projects, I am aways impressed by the quality of my stills and videos my camera provides.
Still waiting for stock on the Raspberry Pi hi-quality camera’s to be able purchase one.
Thanks again for this review. Be safe and healthy and hope to you in your next video
Glad to see you back and thanks for the effort to put together this outstanding information.
What I am most interested in is how to use cameras from old cell phones with the Pi.
Yes, that would be nice to know. I have a dead Samsung Zoom with 10x optical zoom camera, I hope it's possible to use somehow
Lol right? But there are so many questions and some much to how it actually works that it isn't a very simple answer I imagine
This is quality content, why channels like this one doesn't have millions of subscribers?
Thanks so much for this comprehensive overview.
Your workshops are bloody brilliant mate
I bought an adapter, Canon EOS EF and EF-S to C. Means I can use any of my camera lenses plus old Pentax lenses I have an EOS adapter for.
Only need to hope heavy lenses won't break RPi's bayonet connector :)
Love your videos DroneBot! You pay so much attention to getting all the details correct, I wanted to let you know what '4k' or 2160p video is actually 3840x2160 rather than the 3480x2160 that you show in your video. REAL 4k video is actually 4096x2160 that most native 4k projectors support.
Bill...you are a number 1... you know how to teach...I always waiting for your videos..thumbs up
I am a printing press operator by trade, and the plate mounter I use has two Pis with cameras. One of the issues it has is that some vibrations (like what is generated when peeling the plate off of the stickyback to reposition it) can cause the interface to glitch, which can in turn cause a complete Pi restart. Initially it was thought to be a poor connection, but this plate mounter model seems to have this problem universally.
Was looking for an overview exactly like this, thank you so much
Thank you very much for your videos. I enjoy the clear, simple explanation and comparisons of various hardware.
Personally, I'm disappointed in the direction the raspberry pi and it's bits have gone. Rather than producing new, affordable updated versions of their stuff, they've just decided to make things bigger and more expensive.
The new camera (with lens ) approaches $100, the pi4 with bits needed comes close to the same price.
At that price, It's getting uncomfortably close in price to much better options for any project I could imagine. What I used to love about the pi is that you could buy lots of them ,and have multiple projects or cheaply experiment.
Just found the workshop. My kind of learning. LOVE the power points. Why not teach us like students? We are aren't we? Thank you for taking the time to share these videos.
Very, very informative. Thank you so much!
Well done Bill.. it has inspired me to dust off some of my cameras and even get a new one or two and set up a few little experiments... It has been a while since I have used one.. Glad to see you back by the way.. hope you are having a great summer! It is nice to know that during the cold and miserable winter time you will have more videos.. But it is time to make hay as they say.. see you in the funny papers..
Thanks, Bill, that was a very informative video, as I want to start using my version 2 camera with my old v3 Pi and a bird box for next year in the garden. All the best Bob in the UK
I love longer video in details anyone who is patience enough get good education
19:10 "that's me in the corner"
REM intensifies ;-)
as always, a very detailed and informative demo and explanation, great one!
Awesome video. Really clear and in-depth explanation. Appreciated.
not properly tested at last pictures i know there were limitations...... appreciate the whole video,was so informative and kudos to your hard work sir. so informative. subscribed to your channel.
It would have been nice when comparing the Canon EOS to the Raspberry Pi cameras during the color test, if the same colors samples had been displayed side by side.
This is made me think about a telescope I've got, perhaps I could use a Pi with a camera somehow connected to my telescope. BTY how hard is it to add audio to the video on a Pi?
......THanks for the great video and fine explanation of the Cameras..... from the UK
Brilliant as always!
Gran trabajo. I'm glad you're back. Excellent video. Best regards.
Hello from Belgium, very nice vidéo, as usual. A little suggestion, if you don't mind. When comparing two results on one screen, display the same part of the photo, this would allow a better comparison. Thanks for all. Regards.
Enjoyed this video.
Was disappointed by the color changes in video as you moved.
How would you record and sync sound in video recording?
Would like to see a hack to get a 12 or 16 megapixel camera from a current smart phone working on raspberry pi.
Thanks for such a thorough and well thought-out overview on using these cameras. As usual, very useful!
I, as a number of others, would love to see you explain how you might incorporate audio with the video. Since the Pi doesn't have any audio input and the camera modules don't have audio, I'm told incorporating a USB mic is the route to go. Do you agree? Can you show how to capture video with audio in real-time, or if it would be otherwise necessary to capture audio and video simultaneously (as separate files) and then merge them in the Pi to a single H.264 video with audio? Thanks so much!!
Despite a rather strange comparison with Canon - thanks again for your effort.
Thanks for the video. Thinking about using the HQ and 16mm as a livestream webcam looking outside
Thanks I look forward to your videos, sometime waiting is a pain but it is always worth the wait.
Brilliant Video. Many thanks for a very clear explanation.
so much information, so many details and tests of the different cameras.. great!
Thank you!
Thank you. Excellent clear and evidenced based. Well presented. Well done.
This video is very detailed. I had to give you thumbs up for that & I never comment on youtube videos.
This was GREAT Bill...thanks!
Van I use the pi camera to inspect pcb board .. like to verify resistor values? Cap placements. Etc.. etc...
How can you record audio on this
Sir, you have a golden voice
The samsung s20 Ultra, which goes on sale March 6, is being marketed for its “Space Zoom” capabilities. In addition to wide and ultra-wide cameras, its telephoto lens with a folded zoom provides 10X optical and 100X digital zoom. We need this!
Thanks for the great summary of the cameras, however it would have been nice to also have more comparisons on the video usage of these cameras, such as ghosting of moving images, as well as day and night usage. You did wave your hand around a little for 1 camera, but not enough to see how much ghosting there would be in real life usage. I'm thinking of typical pi usage such as diy security cameras, garden animal watching, etc. (We have a hawk that sometimes picks up bread from our garden so it would be cool to get it on video.). Thanks again.
Very professionally done! Very much appreciated!!!
Great video been trying to resolve the various type for raspberry pie
Could you please share what lenses you used here and where to get them? Thank you!
tis channel i always watch at 1.5x speed
this is very good ! great speaking voice,wellexplained succint topic and GSOH !
This is a quality production. Thank you
nice camparison! thx for the effort. helps me a lot to decide which one to get
Hi great video I have a old tablet after watching your video ime wondering could I use the camera from it ?
I was hoping for some examples on the max and min zoom levels of the 16mm lens
Hi, great video as always. That was cool swapping out the camera module, I hadn't thought that would be so easy. Fish eye lens etc could be very handy. Have you found or tested any ways of getting audio into a video recording on the PI? I have an USB audio interface from Adafruit, but haven' t spent enough time to see if I could mix audio from that and video from the CSI Pi camera. Best wishes and keep up the great work!
Nice checkup.
Sure you wont be able to lift the whole bit set of options available with the test charts you used - but you ticked for a nice small subset.
Color correction settings, black level adjustment and white balance are often in your hands as the operator - thus the defaults might not always fit to a certain real world unit but would need adjusting according to various aspects including operation powers (even if there are regulators and references on board) and to the operation temperature as well, just to name the most important ones.
When going for image compression and file formats - this is pure aspect of your software and processor setup. Many of this might see alteration - thus its beyond the system border of the "camera" subsystem and partially to even the headline of your video. Install the image compression library of your choice and use it in your programs... thats what raw (with even 10, 12 or more bits per pyhsical pixel, side note: bayer pattern with RGGB, RGBC, ...) and RGB image ouputs formats are helpful for: as an intermediate format for giving you maximum freedom, including also extra adjustments for WB or even lens distortion corrections. - that was probably now meant for people that want to go for an even deeper understanding of the system and its building blocks.
I personally would have liked to see a true 1:1 comparison with all cameras taking the exact aspect ratio defined markers on the black-and-white testing charts with a later reading on where the horizontal and vertical lines to vanish into gray. (hint: JPEG storage is not the way to go when doing camera quality comparisons.) and maybe further also would liked to see some direct comparison between all color patches of the RGB test chart along with a noise analysis (might take multiple pictures in a row to see if its a static noise or an acutally per shot noise.) - but dont worry, its something that people need to know that want to go to true limits and not just roughly gauge the best price to performance aspects of their home or semi-commercial application projects.
Thanks for your efforts and great works in giving such a well tailored overall show on this definitely needed to be presented topic.
There is an error at 8:00, the digits used are transposed. That 4K UHD resolution should be 3840x2160, not 3480x2160. Which is 8,294,400 pixels, not 7,516,800 pixels. There is another error at 8:47, H.265 is not needed to do 4K. 4K is perfectly valid for H.264. H.265 is a different codec (HEVC) that is more efficient than H.264, but both H.264 and H.265 can be used with a wide variety of resolutions, including 4K. Note - The specific GPU firmware implementation in the Pi doesn't support 4K, but that's not because of the lack of H.265 hardware.
Great Vary professional... Thanks for putting together a total camera tutorial... Yes its long, but thrall... and someone interested in this stuff does not mind in the least... You are vary good at this, and helping people is how you get to Heven....lol
Great information! FYI... you flipped the 4 and 8 in the 4K resolution description; should be 3840.
@8:05 4K resolution is essentially quad full-HD, which requires both the horizontal and vertical resolutions be doubled. So, 1920x1080 becomes 3840x2160. You've transposed two numerals in the 4K resolution shown, claiming 3480x2160 resolution. This should be corrected.
Your description of the c and cs mount is wrong. The HQ camera is a CS camera and you add the adapter to turn it into a c mount camera.
Really, really nice video! Well done!
The resolution of the cameras was better than I had expected. The lowest I think was the V2. I cannot remember which one it was but I THINK it was the V2 which had a poorer White/Grey in the Stills. I used a similar White and Grey card and a Colour scale when it was critical and a Resolution thing similar in purpose but different appearance to yours for checking my lenses and focusing on my Nikons over the years. Interestingly my fir digital camera after a lot of critisism had an image size of 3-4 M-Pixel and even my Nikon only has a 12-13 M Pixel size but the sensor is very much larger than those in the study.
Overall, not to be sniffed at I think. Colour not perfect (various red and blue casts and White/Grey scale variable) but resolution OK.
Amateur Photographer would be critical of this review but it is OK for me :-).I should have also said I have some C-Mount Lenses somewhere which makes the HQ module more attractive but I cannot honestly see that it was much better.
Supper information on various camera modules.
Thank you for a thorough presentation on RasPi cameras....
Good video. Glad to hear from you, I was about to organize a search party. :-)
@dronebotworkshop, referencing @9:50, I just had a HELL of a weekend trying to get 2 arducam RPI HQ cameras to work, to no avail. After purchasing a branded RPI HQ camera I was successful. I can only guess that the arducams were intended for Jetsons because the MIPI connector was 22 pin 📌n each. The branded camera had 15 pins. Still can’t get the branded camera to talk to my RPI 5, but that MAY be a cable issue: RPI 5 connectors are 22 pins, and my 15-22 pin cable did NOT work.
Anyway, I returned the Arducams. Now I just need to justify to the family CEO getting a 2nd camera for my telescope, LOL!
Thank you for the video. I learnt alot.
hi, great video and 1 question...you are using a raspberry pi, is there a reason for this over arduino ? could you have used the arduino with expansion board? curious.
thx
Great presentation -- very useful. What was the approximate exposure time used in your Image Tests (Low Light) at 43:06?
Darn it! I want to give this TWO thumbs up, but UA-cam won't let me. 😀 Thanks for another well-done, informative video.
This was an excellent and comprehensive video on the Pi Cameras. Thank you for sharing this.
I just got a Pi 4 for some image recognition work, so picking the right camera will be important - so I plan to watch your video again. Can you recommend a good case for the Pi4 that accommodates the camera ribbon cable? I'm not sure if active cooling will be required.
Did you mention what the 16 mm zoom lens would be equivalent to in regular 35 mm photography? An 80 mm zoom lens?
Great video, packed with excellent information
Thanks, It was very informative. I just bought my first raspberry pi and so far, I love it. I want to write some new camera software, but that may take a while... If I do I will let you know, lol!
adapter is for c mount cs is without the adapter + threads are same for both cs is c(whatever it stands for) short
Another excellent video! Where do you get the magnifying lens from?
beautiful explanation !!
What is the sensor that you’re wearing? (blue wristband) . Is it a pressure/temp sensor for medical applications?? Sure would be nice to see a project like that.
very informative .... I would like to get the Focal length of arducam OV5647 on focussed object and run time. Please can show some insights on it. how to get the focal length of lens during focussing.
Great video thanks for posting this. I've got the v2 noir and ir cameras and have been considering the new HQ one to upgrade my MotionEyeOS pi cctv project. Might explore the fish eye lense after that video.
Interesting and well presented thanks from Orlando
Hi, 0:43 5:37 - it is a Camera SERIAL interface (CSI) not standard interface. 5:45 - The interface uses differential (balanced) signalling, the cable doesn't. Cheers :-)
Great video. Witch pi cam would you use for day and night for outside surveillance?
can you explaine how to install this camera for mapping using flight control?
Very well explained, thank you sir
Is there any reason that you can't mention the prices of the cameras as you show them? It's a pain to go back and look it up when you can simply tell us in the video in the moment. This is a great intro video and I enjoyed your production. Cheers and have a good day!
Excellent, thanks so much for all your work. Very interesting.
Hi, Please tell us how to add audio to an RP high-quality camera and do video streaming
QUESTION!
It's a very nice video giving detailed explanation for different cameras. I'm searching for the most suitable RPi camera that I can use on a distance of ~3m for color processing application. Can I have an idea on the distance between the camera and the measured targets in your video? I may choose the RPi HQ camera but the main disadvantage is it takes only a segment of the video, so it may not be very suitable in my case or maybe I can use two camera in parallel!
Can you provide to us or create the vlog of how to extract the Unique Biometric Fingerprint ID?
Excellent work. I have an old practika film slr with couple of m42 thread lenses. Can old slr be retrofitted with this cam. Or can m42 thread lenses be used.
Relly liked the hardware portion of this video but image comparison was very qualitative rather than quantitative. You only compared the vibrance and neglected the color shifts and the dynamic range disparities. Those differences were quite large. In the resolution comparisons it would be best to have the right image overlap the left image so that we would be comparing the same parts of the resolution chart for an "apples to apples comparison". The right and left sides have very different resolution patterns.
Awesome! This has everything for starting out with the camera. Nice pace.