Arducam CSI to USB UVC Camera Adapter Board for Raspberry Pi HQ Camera, 12.3MP IMX477 Camera Board

This adapter board is very useful for the purpose it was made for. It adapts CSI sensor modules to USB 2.But my problems with it mainly come from some characteristics that feel like an oversight.You can do 720p @ 100 fps, but that's all for 720p. You can't run it at lower frame rate, let's say 720p @ 30 fps.Running high frame rate is not always good because it gives the sensor less time per frame to capture the light, and as a result, the higher the frame rate is, the darker the image gets. There are some settings to change the exposure time, but they are best left at auto, because manual adjustment still isn't perfect, and ends up with choppy frame rate.Many applications default to 720p when using a webcam, and always end up with dark image as a result.This might be possible to fix with a firmware update, should Arducam supply one.Other than, it would be nice to see a USB 3 version of this product that does YUV uncompressed video.UPDATE: there is a newer version of the camera firmware available on Arducam forums that fixes this fps issue. After the update, I change my review to 5 stars.

This is a really cool idea. I wanted to upgrade the camera on a diy telecine (8 mm film digitizer) from a lower quality IMX179-based USB camera. This lets me use the Raspberry HQ camera almost as a simple plug-and-go without having to buy and learn a Raspberry Pi computer and make extensive mods to my telecine.The quality of image is great and the fps are as advertised, however, there are a few caveats on my Linux Mint 19.2 system. I use guvcview and it works fine but, for some reason, guvcview starts rapidly capturing still images on its own. Don't know why but depressing the I key (image key) stops it---not a killer but annoying. VLC on Linux works fine with it but I couldn't get cheese to recognize it. Seemed to work well on Windows 10 but I'm a Linux guy.I don't know what the microphone stuff is about, and YMMV but I am very happy with this cool gadget!

I wanted to use the Pi HQ camera for astrophotography, all sky cameras and machine vision projects. But my usual program, SharpCap only sees a tiny bit of the settings for this adapter board. First, for all these application, no raw format. The only stream is MJPG, where hardly a single pixel has the same value as the raw image. Useless. The frame rate is not adjustable, so choose a size, and you get ONE default frame rate. I have used SharpCap with dozens of cameras, and even the cheapest camera will give you a complete set of properties for SharpCap (any camera control software) to see what the camera is capable of.USB 2 is a waste. That is why they only give MJPG lossy streams. Every setting drops frames. No exceptions. And this interface board cannot support ANY of the frame rates. I ask for 30 and I get 19.5. Ask for 15 I get 13.1. Ask for 640x480 at 8 fps and it gives 7.7 and drops frames like crazy.What this tells me is the Arducam made a USB camera interface card that is not standard, is vastly underpowered, expensive, and comes nowhere near exposing the full range of capabilities of the IMX477 sensor - which is what it was supposed to do.AmCap.exe that you download from ArduCam has no digital signature. So it could be spam ridden. It is the worst camera capture tool I have seen in a long time.My conclusion is that ArduCam is not ready for any of the application areas I mentioned, except with lots of hacking and fiddling and spending. MJPG only, why bother?This is the right idea - have a universal USB and wireless interface to MIPI cameras. But ArduCam came nowhere near the mark. I am just very disappointed. I feel like I have been scammed.USB3, full support for all the properties and capabilities of MIPI sensors. Raw formats, regions of interest, 1000 fps regions of interest. NO losses in transmission. NO fluctuating intensities.I tried this with the Raspberry Pi HQ Camera Module. Maybe this ArduCam interface works only with ArduCam IMX477 Camera Board.

Billed as USB compatible - works just fine in Windows 10 machine - plug and play. Plugged it into my Raspberry Pi Zero W and is not recognized - lsusb shows it as 003. It does play in a Python program but otherwise is not recognized by VLC player - which does not list it at all. Work in progress - will keep trying and post results here. Only earns 3 starts because of this.

comes with all the stuff you need to hook the camera up to the board, works well and is detected right away in linux w/ Crowsnest using camera-streamer. However, the image quality is poor, and framerate is atrocious. Even for 3d printing.I'm not expecting miracles here but even at 720p it just shits the bed. NEITHER of the 3rd party monitoring services could detect a failed print with this module. It has been since replaced w/ a cheap no-name $3 webcam that far out preforms this @1080p. I wont even bring the lighting, and colors. This module, does no justice to the a true quality of the HQ Cam. This is on a Raspi4B w/8gb and RatOS-2.0.1

Great way to use the pi HQ camera module on other systems with no hassle. Plug and play experience on Windows 10.

Works as intended. never had an issue with a Arducam product and this is no different.