“I bought this to attach to a telescope to take photos. Even though the sky hasn’t been clear enough, I’ve tested it with some trees near my house and it’s very clear and takes very good pictures especially given the price”
“The IMX477 is an excellent camera, complete; the zoom using python is very good. However, with the raspberry pi 4 and the new bullseye OS, the camera setup is simple. However, I use the Seeed Studio reTerminal, built with a CM4. On this device, it was a bit more complicated, as the autodetect doesn't work, so you have to modify the config.txt a bit. This is what the config.txt needs to look like for reTerminal to detect the camera, in case anyone has this development system. I haven't tested it with a Raspberry Pi Compute Module.
#dtoverlay=ov5647,cam0
#dtoverlay=imx219,cam0
dtoverlay=imx477,cam0
#dtoverlay=adv7282m,cam0
camera_auto_detect=0”
“This Camera produces a fair quality image for still frames. The framerate however is not great for video. Image below was take with the Camera attached to a Swift SW380T Microscope.”
“We have made a nice project with this camera and a microscope, as you can see, we are looking close to a 1 € coin. You can see where I live. :)
Soon we will send you a full report, and some .stl for the people if they want to use it. Next week it will be showed in a science fair.
I would say, it is easy to use, we did nothing, just connect and it runs perfectly.”
