5MP Camera for Raspberry Pi, 1080P HD OV5647 Camera Module V1 for Raspberry Pi5/4/3/3B+, and Other A/B Series

Just what I was hoping! Decent little camera to monitor overall progress on my Ender 3 V2, using octopi. Ease of installation: Worked seamlessly with octopi; plugged it in, restarted the server, and voilá! Camera quality: Initially I thought 5MP fixed focus would be like going back in time to early 2000's webcams, but no, the 1080p @ 30fps is great for overall monitoring, just not suitable as a close up hotend camera.

This works well with my Raspberry Pi 4. Setting it up was straightforward; I just followed the online instructions. The image quality is decent for the price. I mainly use it for basic computer vision projects, and it gets the job done. But the focus could be sharper. For simple tasks, it's a good value.

Works well with the Pi 3 B+. My only issue is that it's moderately confusing unless you use Raspberry Pi OS Bullseye which you can then enable legacy cam support and glamor graphics. It comes with a little paper with a QR code/url too, and it's also got a red light that turns on when it's being used.

I bought this to save money; $13 versus whatever the PiCam was at the time seemed like a good deal to me, as I only intended to use it to monitor my 3D printer and make sure nothing catastrophic was happening while I was away. It has exceeded my expectations. Setup was easy, and the quality of the camera's picture is as good as the PiCams I've seen in this range. Like all these cameras, their ability to focus is not great, and once that focal length is set it does not change automatically, but it can get the job done assuming the subject isn't moving towards or away from the camera often. I attached a picture taken from the camera via a web-based remote monitoring service; this is of my printer bed, with the lights in the room off. For reference, the only light source is a 2ft strip of 300k LEDs positioned about 12" from the bed surface.

The listing says that it does not come with a ribbon cable compatible with a rpi 0/0 2, yet mine included one, (the unpackaged one came with it, 16cm length btw). I was gonna rate it 4 stars for making me buy an extra, but I can’t be mad for including extras, even when not stated.

I got this little camera and a 24 inch ribbon cable for my octopi. Works just fine for what I need and the picture quality is great. The only problem is that I cannot adjust the focus range. It has the castle nut style housing on the lens but I cannot seem to get it to budge with a tool or even a screwdriver. It's a little frustrating that my printer is hazy and the background is in perfect focus. Not sure if this is an issue with my model or if it's not an intended feature, but having a functional focal range would make this an easy 5-star and great value.

Very dim, hard to see. I'm not sure if I am doing something wrong but my camera is very dim and hard to see. I've only just set it up; but, I am not seeing any troubleshooting problems reported online. I'm using OctoPrint with all settings default. My USB webcam had no problems and my room is generally very bright. I swapped over because the USB camera was adding a lot of mass to my printer bed so I wanted to do something different. I'm not sure what is going on here. I will update this again if I am able to get this resolved. But as far as ease of use and initial setup there are probably better options out there. Update 1, using the camera with crowsnest and klipper resulting in a worse image; tough, I am getting a true 1080p image; but, it is under 10 fps.

This module is connected to my home camera network (MotionEyeOS). It works great, never had any issues and it was continuously running for at least 5 months now. Night time quality was a concern, but MotionEyeOS has a new ability to run a regular camera in night mode, and since the camera on the side of the street that has good street lighting it captures everything, even in the darkest time of the night. Without the external lighting, this camera won’t produce anything at night. If you need a camera for night viewing you need NoIR.

Nice Product and Worked as intended

Great item, but it doesn't come with a case.

This camera module works well with the second generation Raspberry Pi (2B). The quality is decent, even in a low light environment.

Ribbon cable is seriously to short for any practical projects, but the camera works great once I bought a longer ribbon cable.

Just as other reviewers have done, I'm using this primarily with OctoPrint. It does the job, I can monitor what is happening, but the image quality is really poor. It's dark and fuzzy and any source of light will cause the image contrast to go off. As per the attached pictures, you can see it mounted to the right of the hotend, but yet the image is super dark. If you want to create beautiful timelapse videos or even see the detail of your print remotely, I'd suggest looking for something different. The cable is also a tad too short and I had to get an extended cable to mount this where I needed it.