Arducam for Raspberry Pi Camera 16MP IMX519 Camera Module with 120°(D) Wide Angle M12 Lens for Raspberry Pi and OpenHD

I own 2 of these, among a number of other Arducam camera modules. They are easy to configure for Raspberry Pi. I’ve paired them with a Pi Zero 2 W for streaming 1080p. They can clearly depict people/animals 300 feet away, and read license plates 50’ away. They interface seamlessly with rpicam commands and python scripts.

Works great with my RPi 4 - integration was smooth and easy. Just set it up as IMX519 regardless of lens

This was pretty ready to setup by following the instructions on the manufacturers website. In my case I used a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W and the latest "Bookworm" release.The product description mentioned there isn't the smaller cable needed for some Pi's but mine came with a thinner white cable in addition to the wider orange cable used on other Pi boards.Image quality is excellent with no hot pixels on the sensor.Make sure you have the cable flipped over to the correct side when attaching it to the circuit boards, especially if you run the camera apps/tools and it reports no camera is found. If you encounter that message try flipping the cable over on one end and retry, and then the other.

Another wonderful camera from the UCTRONICS family. The size of it doesn’t even seem possible, affordable always get quality and reasonable prices with UCTRONICS

I have probably 9-10 various RPi cameras from Raspberry Pi themselves and ArduCam. Trying to use this one on a Pi 4 that works fine with a different camera and this one is not detected. Will probably be fine once I get it to work.

This camera is advertised as "manual focus", and *technically* it is. To change the focus, you twist the lens, which moves it farther from the sensor (turn counter-clockwise) or closer (turn clockwise). But, as purchased, there were two little blobs of glue or epoxy (see photo) that had been applied, which prevent the lens from being turned and the focus from being changed.Once I cut through the glue with a razor blade, I was able to adjust the focus as needed.No documentation or information that I could find from Arducam, Amazon, nor any amount of googling suggested that this might be necessary. Nothing even confirmed that turning the lens was the way to adjust the focus on this model, B0449. Instead, the available documentation from Arducam seemed to suggest that perhaps this model had a motor such that the focus could be adjusted by software, which it does not.