CinePI: a high-end film camera built on Raspberry Pi - Raspberry Pi

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Abstraction: Open-source Raspberry Pi cinema camera recording 2K RAW DNG at 50fps 12-bit

Key points:

CinePI by Csaba Nagy records 2K RAW Cinema DNG video at up to 50fps with 12-bit colour depth — versus the typical 8- or 10-bit consumer cameras
Built around the Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera; hardware body was 3D-printed, assembled in January 2023
Key challenge: HyperPixel 4.0 Square display uses nearly all GPIO pins, forcing all extra hardware (RTC, I2C I/O expander, power management) onto a single I2C bus
Output can be edited in DaVinci Resolve; real-time monitoring via HDMI or LCD touchscreen
Claimed competitive in image quality with cameras costing orders of magnitude more
Open-source project; Csaba seeking contributors at cinepi.io

Connections: Raspberry Pi · Open Source Hardware · Edge Computing