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Review on πŸ“· Arducam Raspberry Pi 5MP Camera Module V1, 1080P HD OV5647, Compatible with Pi 4, Pi 3, 3B+, and Other A/B Series by Michael Welborn

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Perfect for my use, great price.

The housing is not easy to assemble, but it fits perfectly with my Raspberry Pi baby monitor. Image quality is good (this is a $10 camera, don't expect absolutely perfect studio quality photos). If you need to use the camera in low light then that's not great either, but for a basic camera it's pretty darn good, especially at this price point. The case is a little annoying to assemble but gets the job done! WARNING: The camera doesn't seem to be working, but I was using a more modern version of Raspian (both were bad, but one was missing some software updates that I could get with Apt update&&upgrade, dist-upgrade or rpi-upgrade), it would recognize the camera but cannot initialize it. Tried it on my other Pi and had no problems, swapped out their SD cards and it worked on the first one so I know the camera and CSI port worked. Just something to watch out for if you think you have a double decker! I ordered a replacement and found out about it later, so I'm keeping both.

Pros
  • single-board computer
Cons
  • old