The camera is build around the Raspberry Pi Zero W (that does have wireless LAN connectivity) and the Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera that does have a Sony back-illuminated sensor with great size compared to the super tiny one normally used with the Raspberry Pi (sensor size is way more important that pixel count for the final image quality).
It does also have a C and CS mount for choosing among different lenses (this typology of lenses are used for security cameras or industrial applications). Thanks to that, it's possible to use the camera with a wide choice of lenses (high quality made with glass as well, not done with the cheap plastic as the tiny one) and the camera can be used in a wide range of applications, like for a wide angle camera, a telescope one or a microscope as well.
The lenses used in this post are from the company ArduCam that does offer a lot of solutions for many platforms, like Raspberry Pi obviously as well as NVIDIA Jetson, OpenCV AI, SPI solution cameras for microcontroller etc.
The goal is to build a compact customizable high quality 1080p HDMI camera for any possible use, ready to me mounted with a standard 1/4" screw on any existing tripod and fixture for flexible positioning. It should also have some buttons to easily flip the image to quickly adjust the orientation (so no need to do that in post or use OBS).
Please find the complete tutorial for installing the camera on Marco Lurati’s development repository.
Raspberry Pi HD web cam | Marco Lurati portfolio | Interaction designer and engineer