ELP USBFHD01M-L21 USB Camera Module

Super cheap camera and poor quality, will not buy again.

Due to COVID-19, web cams are priced 3X their normal price and my application for a camera is OctoPi so I can keep an eye on my 3D printer, I don't need sound. So I opted for this camera. Horrible quality. Also, OctoPi isn't able to reduce the frame rate and I had to add `additional_brokenfps_usb_devices=("32e4:9230")` to `/boot/octopi.txt` in order to get it to work at all. The picture has green, horizontal lines that flash in and out at random places. Ugh.

This rating form asks me to score its "Sheerness". Not sure what that is, so, average, I guess. The circuit board is pretty thin though, so, I guess 4 stars for "Thickness", lol.

On the plus side, I tested it on Mac and on Linux and in both cases, no additional drivers were required. The fisheye lens adds a lot of distortion, but in my case, it allows me to see nearly the whole print bed, so, that's a plus.

I literally would not use this camera for any other application and, TBH, once the pandemic passes and WebCam prices return to something resembling sanity, I'll likely replace this.

Excellent for Raspberry Pi 2 and Octoprint for 3d printer monitoring!

Pretty Amazing USB camera! the lens angle is aroudn 120+ deg and there is a fair ammout of "fisheye" effect including dark spots where the lens rim is in the corners of the shot.

Lens is crystal clear! And the camera focus is nice and sharp. Also worth noting, the camera appears to do native MPEG strearming, so if you use it to "web cam" images off something small like a raspberrypi, the machine doesnt have to work as hard transcoding the image stream!