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Love that everything is open source! Code relating to cameras have been traditionally locked down and hidden under NDAs. Surprised there's no sample photos nor specifications on image sensor.



Looks like 5MP but saves as 3MP files. https://github.com/toasterllc/MDCCode/blob/6afdde594861264f8...

Pixel resolution Size = 2304 x 1296 = 2,985,984 pixels Pixel count = 2.99 million pixels Resolution = 2.99 mega pixels Aspect Ratio Width / Height: 1.78 "landscape" (horizontal) orientation Type of aspect ratio = "HD 16:9"

Couple photos here too: https://github.com/toasterllc/MDCCode/tree/6afdde594861264f8...

I guess its for hiding a camera near where you park your bike and see who stole it or looked at it.


> Looks like 5MP but saves as 3MP files.

OMG that's so refreshing. Just recently I've come across, both from garage sales, a "40MP" camera smartphone (Chinese brand-X) that actually has, probably, a 13MP class sensor in it and upscales, and a wildlife camera that does the same.

Waste a great deal of storage just to fool people into thinking they got a better camera, and then you have to downscale all that again to achieve something like pixel-level sharpness.


Indeed it's 2304 x 1296, 12-bit color. (That .jpg in the repo was a test image from a different camera.)


Omnivision's camera datasheets and sample code can be found everywhere on the Internet.




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