News - RaspberryPi camera attachment in the works

[HEXUS]

The team is currently operating a 14-megapixel prototype.

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[cheesemp]

Great news. RS let me put in an order on Friday. Looking forward to having a play!

[13thmonkey]

lowlight version would be nice, larger lower resolution sensor, could see what happens in my garden overnight

[3dcandy]

I think it's the low price of the Pi that has attracted people. Sure other systems are better, but if you're hacking or playing around it's better to have them cheaper...

[TheAnimus]

lowlight version would be nice, larger lower resolution sensor, could see what happens in my garden overnight

I'd say the whole point of this over say erm, a webcam, is that it will be mod happy, iirc without checking the broadcom chip only supports rolling shutter, so its not going to be that good anyway.

But anyway, on your topic, the senors in these cameras have no clue of colour, they have a filter on them for each pixels colour, normally just arranged RGB (some like olympus do this in odd shapes). They normally have UV and IR filters on them, hopefully you can remove these filters with little effort, and put one on that will filter all but IR. Some cheap LEDs or even a powerful lamp would be all you need.

[miniyazz]

I'd say the whole point of this over say erm, a webcam, is that it will be mod happy, iirc without checking the broadcom chip only supports rolling shutter, so its not going to be that good anyway.

But then most if not all DSLRs also use rolling shutter technology and yet have been used in major productions (think 5D MkII). Granted, on cheaper tech its problems may be more apparent but it's not necessarily going to produce poor quality video.

[TheAnimus]

it's not about quality at all, I don't think, but what you can do with it.

Want to make your own kinect type thing? Not with a rolling shutter (easily, I'm sure someone will one day work out a good way!).