“I bought this to build a 'finder' camera for my astronomical telescope, replacing a HQ camera, but I've found backward compatibilty with the older software out there is poor. This has meant having to do a lot more work from scratch, despite the claims of easy swapping between the GS and HQ camera.
Not helped by the confusing and patchy state of the documentation, determining whether Raspi-still, libcamera or rpicam is the correct tool is not easy, as internet searches throw up a mass of conflicting and often plain wrong info.
It seems many of the commands don't apply to the GS, the only awb option that rpicam-still will take is auto, tungsten and the rest all get rejected. I've been wading through the 68 page camera guide, but there is no camera specific official command list I can find”
“Service from the PiHut was exemplary *****
My reasons for only giving three stars are (a) like any RasPi camera, it is difficult to attach tidily to a microscope, and (b) the documentation is far from user-friendly.
For someone who hopes to simply use the camera, rather than play with it ... this document is a very difficult place to start”
