ELP USB with Camera 2.1mm Wide Angle Mjpeg 5megapixel Hd PC Cameras for Industrial Machine Vision OV5640 Mini UVC Lightburn Webcamera,3.3ft/1m Cable for Computer Laptop Jetson Nano

I bought this camera to detect barcodes in images and found out it's not suited for the task. Basically, using software that detected barcodes in images captured with my cell phone or via Logitech c920, I couldn't detect barcodes in images captured with this camera. I am not sure why. Maybe it's the wide angle curvature or insufficient resolution or limited ability to handle low light conditions. The camera does have several advantages, hence 3 stars. 1. plug'n'play. I connected it to my Mac, and it worked right away. 2. The picture quality is actually quite decent (just wasn't enough for me). 3. The wide angle gives you a broad field of vision.

Camera is good, works as described. Needs better lens. Lots of barrel distortion.

This is a great camera. Seller ships from China and it arrived in the same time as a domestic UPS package shipped the same day! The camera is super simple to setup, I downloaded Debut (free software) for the UTC interface on my Windows 7 computer. Windows 7 automatically found the correct driver and installed it within seconds. Debut found the camera immediately and I was taking video in less than 1 minute. This camera is excellent in low light conditions and I actually adjusted the brightness in Debut because the picture was brighter than I needed. It seems plenty durable with the aluminum hosing. I am using it in my woodturning shop to video my hollowing and other work. Great picture. Not quite as clear as the GoPro Hero 3 I was using but plenty enough quality for my needs. It is also small and comes with over 9 ft. of USB cable. Uses little memory compared the GoPro. One minute video (30 fps) 10.6 mb. This camera is a great value and I don't think you can beat the overall package of shipping, value, and quality, anywhere. Great deal! If you need a video camera for CCTV this is the one! Not sure about durability yet but if it doesn't turn out to be as durable as I think it is, I will update this review.

Defective out of the box, wires seem crimped or damaged and unit would not stay on

I wanted to take pictures from the Linux terminal/command line of sunset and sunrise skies. This module worked fine with cheese (a GUI front end) and with streamer, a command line prog. I finally moved on to using fswebcam which is also a command line program, it grabbed the best pictures and is highly configurable. To take a picture: fswebcam -r 2048x1536 --jpeg 85 -D 1 web-cam-shot.jpg Highly recommended!