Whoa, Microscope!
The Microscope Lens for the Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera is now available at SparkFun Electronics!
The Microscope Lens for the Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera is now available at SparkFun Electronics!
Hello one and all and welcome back to another Friday Product Post here at SparkFun Electronics! This week, we have a brand new lens for your Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera and this one lets you capture microscopic images. This is an incredibly neat add on for an already incredible camera module and it's only made better with the reliability that Raspberry Pi provides. Let's take a look!
$30.95
The Microscope Lens 0.12–1.8x is a CS/C-mount lens designed for use with the Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera. With an adjustable 0.12x to 1.8x optical zoom range, it enables close-up imaging for electronics inspection, microscopy, machine vision, and other applications requiring high levels of detail. The lens mounts directly to the Raspberry Pi HQ Camera using its standard CS mount.
In case you don't have a camera module for the lens shown above, the High Quality Camera Module is a camera sensor designed to accept CS-mount lenses and, with the supplied adapter, C-mount lenses for use with the Raspberry Pi single board computer line. It offers higher resolution (12 megapixels, compared to eight megapixels), and sensitivity (approximately 50% greater area per pixel for improved low-light performance) than the existing Camera Module v2. The 12.3 megapixel Sony IMX477 sensor features a 7.9mm diagonal image size and back-illuminated sensor architecture with adjustable back focus. Additionally, this module features an included tripod thread just adjacent to the ribbon cable connector.
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