Review on ⚙️ Arducam Raspberry Pi Camera Module V2 - 8MP, 1080p (RPI-CAM-V2 + 20-inch/500mm Flexible Cable + Pi Zero Adapter Cable) by Antonio Fox

The packaging itself was good. All cables are present, as expected, connected, deserved. Note: Don't expect a good program to see what the camera sees - write a Python program to take a short video or a blind photo - or write something. But . It's a Raspberry Pi and that's what it's all about! However. My use case was the control computer for a model railway and I wanted to use the web feed of the video coming from the 8 megapixel camera. Should be great, right? no First, the image quality sucked. not good. Lots of streaks, graininess and so on. But it got even worse: If you want to stream a video, you have two options: a. Shrink an image every x ms and then update the image on the web (640x480@30 is sosolala so don't expect precision). So I'm just using frames that are horribly scaled down and/or jittery/jerky output and the R-Pi needs to be boosted a lot to "transcode". Cannot be used to see what is going on.b. Using RDP - There was a neat trick that allowed using the RDP protocol, and even with a reasonable size and frame rate. But. no browser can handle it. To do this you need to use a separate program - and even worse - with a 5-second delay (unsuitable for real-time) at low quality. So overall this is a very good trick for someone. c - but since there are webcam solutions that cost less + you get decent quality, it's totally overpriced and useless. I am sorry.