# Laser Cutter camera set up

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Hi Luke,

There are some hardware incompatibilities that are still being worked out in the latest Raspberry Pi ‘Bullseye’ release which means some cameras may not work with the new camera library functions when running older Raspberry Pi boards like the Pi 3A+.

There is a software solution to this, you just need to use the older ‘Buster’ release and then the Raspistill commands covered in our older camera guide will work fine.

This guide covers how to flash buster.

> **[How to Flash the Old 'Buster' Raspberry Pi OS to a Micro-SD - Tutorial](https://core-electronics.com.au/tutorials/flash-buster-os-pi.html)**
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> This will be a quick article showing the process to flash the legacy Raspberry Pi OS 'Buster' Debian 10 (or any previous OS iteration) to a Micro-SD card. With any exciting new Operating System (OS) release, there are always small teething...

This guide covers how to use the older camera library commands.

> **[Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera – First Pictures and Videos - Tutorial](https://core-electronics.com.au/tutorials/raspberry-pi-high-quality-camera.html)**
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> \[Note - Terminal Commands talked about here have been superseded with the new 'Bullseye' Raspberry Pi OS. Link here for new 'Bullseye' camera commands. 
> If you want to use the commands found on this page download and flash the old 'Buster' OS to your...

I’ve tested a Pi3A+ today with Buster and a wide angle camera module.  
You can view a stream from the camera using the terminal command.  
`raspistill -p 100,100,640,480 -t 0`  
You can then kill the video window using CTRL + C or CTRL+SHIFT+Q in the terminal.

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