A camera for motion photography and machine vision!
The Raspberry Pi Global Shutter Camera is a specialized 1.6-megapixel camera that is able to capture rapid motion without introducing artefacts typical of rolling shutter cameras. It is ideally suited to fast motion photography and to machine vision applications, where even small amounts of distortion can seriously degrade inference performance.
With a large pixel size of 3.45μm × 3.45μm providing high light sensitivity, the Global Shutter Camera can operate with short exposure times (as low as 30μs with adequate lighting), an advantage for high-speed photography.
It features a 1.6MP Sony IMX296 sensor, and it has the same C/CS-mount lens assembly as the Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera, for compatibility with the same broad variety of lenses. In common with other global shutter sensors, the IMX296 has a lower resolution than similarly sized rolling shutter sensors; a low pixel count is appropriate for machine vision applications, where high-resolution images are challenging to process in real time. The Global Shutter Camera's lower resolution means that with appropriate lens magnification, an image suitable for processing by a machine vision model can be captured natively.
Compatibility
The Raspberry Pi Global Shutter Camera is compatible with all Raspberry Pi computers with CSI connectors - that is, all models except Raspberry Pi 400 and the launch version of Zero (Raspberry Pi Zero V1.2). Raspberry Pi 5 and Raspberry Pi Zero V1.3/W/WH/2W/2WH models have small CSI connectors and it is necessary to use adapter cables.
These camera adapter cables have a 22-way 0.5mm-pitch connector at one end (for your board), and a 15-way 1mm-pitch connector at the other (for your camera):
Raspberry Pi 5 Camera Adapter Cable
Raspberry Pi Zero Camera Cable
Included in the package
- 1× Raspberry Pi GS Camera
- 1× Removable plastic cover
- 1× 150mm ribbon cable
- 1× C-mount to CS-mount adapter
- 1× Screwdriver
Links
Launch article
Official documentation
