[GTALUG] Raspberry Pi 4 Desktop Kit

[Stewart C. Russell]

On 2020-08-08 3:47 p.m., Kevin Cozens via talk wrote:
> 
> There is a new(ish) high quality Pi camera with adjustable focus.

Yeah, I knew about that. It's got no focus at all, just being a sensor 
board and a lens mount. The best that folks are getting out of it right 
now is manual focus. There's no autofocus/diaphragm motor header on the 
board, either, so all the nice things like selective zoom/pan to speaker 
and 3d image reconstruction that you'd get out of a 5+ year old cell 
phone won't work with it. And still no microphone.

It apparently makes an amazing microscope camera and a mostly-adequate 
skyview camera, though. There are some quite high quality lenses 
available at (fairly) low cost in that format. They've also sorted out 
raw imagery so you can get the raw Bayer data out in an interchangeable 
format now, too.

cheers,
  Stewart