Works great as a security camera add-on to the Pi zero (w) and pi 3 series, which makes a great addition to your raspberry pi project. Both raspivid and raspistill work natively with this camera. The camera is small but high quality. It’s only about 25mm x 24mm x 9mm which is very convenient to carry. This interface uses the dedicated CSI interface, which was designed especially for interfacing to cameras. Notice: Connect the ribbon cable with raspberry pi, the camera works. 5MP 1080 camera Size : 25 x 24 x 9 mm Angle of view : 54 x 41 degrees Field of View: 2.0 x 1.33 m at 2 m Full-frame SLR lens equivalent: 35 mm Fixed Focus: 1 m to infinity Max frame rate: 30fps 30cm pi zero ribbon cable Color : golden Length : 30cm Model : FPC Fit for raspberry pi zero and raspberry pi zero w. 100cm pi camera cable Color : white and blue Length : 100cm Model : FFC Fit for raspberry pi 3 model b+, 3 model b, 2 model b. Package includes: 5mp 1080p camera x1 30cm pi zero ribbon cable x1 100cm pi camera cable x1wide angle lens x1micro lens x1fisheye lens x1
A**L
Normal camera, interesting add-ons
The 5Mp Pi cam is the same others are selling, and at around the same price.You can also find some vendors offering the extra cables. One for the Pi Zero and one long (1 meter) for the Pi 3.So the interesting part of this kit would be the additional lenses.The good news is that they work and are pretty cool. See the attached pics for the fish eye and macro lenses used on my cell phone.The bad news is that the way the lenses are attached is via a clip. It was really designed for cell phones and you'd be squeezing electrical components if used on the bare board Pi cam. At a minimum you need to put the camera in a case and one is not included.The other bad news is that my kit was missing the wide angle lens.For the price, I can't really complain, but I'll let the vendor know about the missing part.Update:Contacted the seller, and they explained that the macro and wide-angle lenses are shipped as a single combined very-wide-angle lens! All you have to do is unscrew them to get the separate lenses. Pretty cool! I've attached the instructions and upgraded the product to 5-stars.
A**N
Probably should have known better
So mine is missing one of the three lenses. The clip doesn't fit the camera at all--it holds the lens on very crooked and out of focus and it's free to slide around. The spacer ring is way too big so it holds the lens itself against the pi camera's own lens, which is probably going to scratch both. Also the cable wasn't the length advertised. It's two meters long, maybe six and a half feet. Kinda cool if you need a very long cable, but if you don't then ot only do you have to coil up the excess in a clumsy ball--plus it's long enough to degrade picture quality with EMI when you're running it at full resolution. Probably not a super big deal but I selected a cable length based on my project's needs. With so much stuff wrong and some people reporting that the camera itself is a clone and conks out after a little while, I'm a bit wary of that part too.This product seems like something they came up with to get rid of leftover junk in the warehouse. Random cable and two (not three) clip-on lenses intended for a cell phone, not the pi camera. I can probably 3d print a special case for the pi camera PCB to make it thicker so the clip-on lens seats right, but I would like to actually get what I ordered. They want you to contact them before leaving a review, which seems like they're hoping a good portion of customers don't bother and just eat it. Hmm.
B**N
Garbage.
Lens are held roughly in place by a plastic laundry type clip which is ofsett thus wont stay flat on the lens. This causes May issues.. firstly the focus is horrible most of the time because its impossible to align the clip... it has no actual mounting spot and sticks on "where ever" by friction. The clip is awkward is weight distribution so the camera flops around and cant be set to sit in any particular direction. It also makes putting the lens in any protective case impossible. Absolute garbage.
E**B
Lenses are useless
As said in some of the other more legitimate sounding reviews, the lenses are made to clip onto a phone, not the camera. So you have some lenses that don't fit onto a v1.3 Raspberry Pi camera. If I wanted lenses that didn't fit, I would have just ordered the lenses from somewhere else. I don't know why someone would even package this collection of in compatible parts together in a single box.
M**E
frustrating lenses!
The camera works as advertised. Most of these PI cameras aren't too bad. I'm just annoyed that the Macro lens and Fish eye lenses DO NOT FIT TOGETHER. The diagrams are fairly straight-forward, but too bad they are meaningless. The bottom portion of the macro lens is the exact same size as the fish-eye lens that is supposed to fit INSIDE of it.I feel like I paid for 3 and only got 2.
G**S
Not a good fit
This camera does not fit properly in the official pi zero case or the Vilros black pi zero case. The three other pi cameras I have fit them beautifully. No big deal right? Wrong, when I close the case(s) the camera stops working. I won't buy another.
K**M
Great Camera
I added this to my Pi Cana kit. I'm using it to monitor a 3D printer. It works well and has a quality image. It's extremely light and compact.
E**.
Not actually compatible with Raspberry Pi
Don't bother with this, has intermittent issues due to not being an actual Raspberry Pi Camera board. Lost 4-5 hours troubleshooting due to thinking it was actually compatible.
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