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than, it would be nice to see a USB 3 version of this product that does YUV uncompressed video.UPDATE: there is a newer version of the camera firmware available on Arducam forums that fixes this fps issue.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 product has the really "cool" feature of being garbage out of the package. It's a 40$ board that is absolutely incompetent at its only job, exposing UVC controls for the camera. None of the UVC controls work, it overexposes everything to the point of being completely unusable and half the rated resolutions don't even work. I was using my raspberry pi branded HQ camera with a 5$ raspberry pi zero and some open source software called showmewebcam beforehand and it completely thrashes this board for 8x less money. The best part is that all the UVC controls work with this method. FOR 5$ DOLLARS!!! Now you are limited to 1080p 30fps which is why I originally bought this as an upgrade, but ask yourself if you want 30 great-looking frames or 60 completely unusable ones per second. Guess I am sticking with the raspberry pi instead.I can't believe that Arducam markets itself as "a professional designer and manufacturer of SPI, MIPI, DVP and USB cameras" as they seem to be completely incompetent when it comes to USB cameras. Why does this board cost 40$ in the first place? From looking at the board there can't be more than 5-10$ of components on it and at a 15$ price point I would be willing to forgive some of the issues but the fact that it costs so much, and none of the advertised features work is absolutely astounding. Yes, I tried all the troubleshooting steps, different computers, different cables, software updates, drivers, everything. Just don't buy this and support a company that clearly can't be bothered to make a solid product for this category.

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!

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.

Received two of these boards to use with a Raspberry Pi HQ Camera, and an Arducam IMX477 Motorised IRCut camera. Unfortunately they have not been fit for purpose.The image from the camera connected to a raspberry pi over USB is extremely dark and it's not possible to tweak the exposure settings directly. You can only use brightness and contrast controls in software in the client app and it looks bad.Conversely, if I just connect the camera directly to the raspberry pi with the CSI flex cable I get good exposure and I get more control over the camera. I sought help for this on the Arducam forums and discovered another person with the same issue. Arducam appears to have emailed them a custom firmware to resolve the issue but I have had no response to my request for support.I can't recommend this product. If you can't connect directly to the raspberry pi with a flex cable consider just buying a USB webcam instead of this.

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.

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