ELP USB with Camera 2.1mm Lens 1080p Hd Free Driver USB Camera Module,2.0 Megapixel(1080p) Usb Camera,for Linux Windows Android Mac Os

It does what it says on the box without fuss.* MPEG offers reasonable image quality but for the best quality (although at a much lower framrate) use YUY2 instead.* Comes with a 1M USB lead.* Lens mounting thread is fairly standard and you can easily source ones with different focal lengths.Notes:* As with all cameras of this type, beware of getting dust/contamination on the sensor whern changing the lens.* You may need to tighten up the two screws holding the lens bracket to the PCB. I have a few of these cameras, and on some the screws were loose making getting a reliable focus difficult until I realised what the problem was.* The latest hardware does not match the image shown with the lens mounting being slightly longer and does not have a lens locking screw. The lens is 'fixed' in position by a waxy material that resists movement in the screw but still allows the focus to be changed.That means that if you need to change the lens (as I do) then you will need to source some more of the 'wax' or devise some other means of securing the lens in position.

The lens gives a usefully wide field of view, and can be swapped for other M12 lenses if needed. Image quality is good. Works out of the box with supported resolutions.

Due to COVID-19, web cams are priced 3X their normal price and my application for a camera is OctoPi so I can keep an eye on my 3D printer, I don't need sound. So I opted for this camera. Horrible quality. Also, OctoPi isn't able to reduce the frame rate and I had to add `additional_brokenfps_usb_devices=("32e4:9230")` to `/boot/octopi.txt` in order to get it to work at all. The picture has green, horizontal lines that flash in and out at random places. Ugh.This rating form asks me to score its "Sheerness". Not sure what that is, so, average, I guess. The circuit board is pretty thin though, so, I guess 4 stars for "Thickness", lol.On the plus side, I tested it on Mac and on Linux and in both cases, no additional drivers were required. The fisheye lens adds a lot of distortion, but in my case, it allows me to see nearly the whole print bed, so, that's a plus.I literally would not use this camera for any other application and, TBH, once the pandemic passes and WebCam prices return to something resembling sanity, I'll likely replace this.

When I first plugged this in and tested on Linux, I was getting really lousy frame rates using cheese (Linux Mint 15). I just tried on a different Linux computer with more up-to-date packages (Arch) and it worked much better. I haven't tracked down which V4L2 parameters to use for the improved behavior yet.The camera handles low light better than most other webcams I've tried. The picture is pretty sharp, but the colors seem less vibrant than most webcams. Maybe the typical webcam is software correcting for that, and this is just truer to the real sensor output? There is a lot of fish eye effect, and moving the camera seems to cause more distortion than you'd get on a high-end webcam. (but it's way better than a low-end webcam)

This is a nice little camera, does what it says. I connected this to a Mac and it recognized all video formats advertised. I had the camera mounted on the car dash and drove around for about 30 minutes recording at 720p @ 60fps. There were no glitches, hiccups, pauses, or other bad things I could notice. Video quality is great, the feed quality is super smooth and completely clear even at 100+ mph.My only gripe, hence 4 stars, is that at 1080p the picture sent back has edges that are circular black, as if the lens is not big enough for the sensor. I just ordered the same model with wide angle lens, hope to improve on this and mild fisheye effect this camera has.Overall I am very happy with the product, quality of 720p@60fps at high moving speeds is amazing, was what I was going for to begin with.