The video surveillance market is one of the biggest consumers of lenses, in which M12 lenses and C/CS-Mount lenses are used most. A mainstream mount can accommodate various ready-to-use lenses on the market. The key to flexibilities of lenses is the lens mount. We want to make the most of the OV5647 and IMX219 by bringing more features to them, so you can try better camera projects on the Raspberry Pi. The RPi HQ camera is the first official one with interchangeable lenses M12 Lens – The popular candidate not selected by the RPi foundationīefore the HQ camera was out, Arducam had been pushing the customization of Pi camera modules for several years. 7 years after the release of the first camera module, a mounting system for interchangeable lenses is finally introduced to the official Raspberry Pi camera modules. To respond to the most wanted features, here comes the Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera with higher resolution and access to C/CS-Mount lenses. However, the Raspberry Pi foundation does not completely play down the camera lineup. After the IMX219 camera is out, we’ve also provided solutions to enhance the optical performance of the V2. When those third-party cams hit the market, the customers had access to better manual focus, wider angle, or switchable IR-cut filter. Therefore, in the time of V1 cameras, third-party manufacturers like Arducam took quick actions to build Pi cameras with interchangeable lenses. We can argue that it’s not the Raspberry Pi’s responsibility to meet the camera-related requirements from every customer, because their focus is to build better communities and produce motherboards. The only official variation – A NoIR (No Infrared Filter) version

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