Say Cheese with Raspberry Pi Camera

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Ever thought it would be cool if your Raspberry Pi could see the world like you do? You’re in luck, camera support is an integral part of the Raspberry Pi hardware, it comes with a built in CSI connector for connecting camera modules to. CSI …

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PiCamera.py does not seem to be available any more (the link on this page doesn’t work). There’s a very complex-looking picamera2.py on GitHub. Do you have any update with a simple Python example (and a readily available library) showing how to use a Raspberry Pi Camera Board V2 to take one .jpeg photo? Research so far indicates that spidev has to be used. I’m using either an RPi5 or RPi3B+.

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Hi @John265780

Picamera has been deprecated and is now rpicam it is baked into Debian OS’s by default. If you’re wanting to just take a picture with a camera on a Pi you can run the below code in a terminal window to take a picture then save it.

rpicam-jpeg -o <name_you_want_pic_to_have>.jpg

Documentation is available from the official RPi documentation library.

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Hi Dan, thanks for the quick reply. That’s excellent to know and the camera is working fine, ‘straight out of the box’ on RPi5.

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Hi @John265780

No worries, best of luck with your projects!