Take better photos with your Raspberry Pi
When Raspberry Pi launched its HQ Camera in 2020 (see reviews LXF264), it introduced something very different from their previous two cameras. While the other two camera modules are made up of a sensor and its interfacing electronics together with a lens, the HQ Camera doesn’t have an integral lens. This means that you need to buy one or more lenses separately, and Raspberry Pi offers a couple of alternatives that we look at here. In that way, it’s similar to digital SLRs (D-SLRs) cameras, but different from the cameras in phones or compact standalone cameras.
Our aim here is to introduce the HQ Camera for those who haven’t yet taken the plunge, and to follow this up by investigating how to use some of its less-familiar features, and at how to choose lenses as alternatives to those provided by Raspberry Pi. Armed with this information, we trust that many of you will decide to try your hand with the HQ Camera, and that it will form the basis of some fascinating new projects. Indeed, we already have some plans to present some exciting things you can do with it in the coming months.
The new sensor has a higher resolution – specifically 12MP, which compares to 5MP for the original camera module and 8MP for the v2. But although that megapixel figure is the one that most users concentrate on, the size of the sensor is also significant because the larger the sensor,
