Arducam Raspberry Pi Camera Module with Case, 64MP Autofocus Camera with ABS Shell, Compatible with Raspberry Pi 4/3/2/Zero/W/Zero WH

Is this plug n play? Not even close. Does it work? Sort of. You will need to be good with ssh, troubleshooting linux logs with commands like dmesg and grep, and carefully following tutorials. The instructions for setup do exist but are rather confusing to follow. It could be presented a lot better than clicking through links on the website of "If you have this see this, if you have this there is an additional setup, if you have this you will need to look for the additional instructions on the page not mentioned previously that looks just like this one" I bought this to use with Octoprint and it does have a working stream with mjpg_streamer but Autofocus is a complete mystery even after following the separate instructions for autofocus on the site (for this specific model of camera) You'll find yourself trying to figure out the inner workings of libcamera whilst troubleshooting why the "ERROR V4L2 v4l2_device.cpp:352 'arducam_64mp 10-001a': Unable to set controls: Device or resource busy" message and realize that mjpg_streamer is in the way. You will then find yourself pouring through forums and rereading the instructions You might even get as far as reading the mjpg_streamer options and documentation to see if there was something you missed. Somewhere around this point you will begin to shake your head and wonder why you bothered with this and wished you had bought something else and done better research. I can't recommend this at all. Even though the camera functions you will have a trying time getting it to work.

It was really hard to get it installed on my rpi5, I broke the clamp trying to move it out of the way to install the ribbon. After fixing that I got it in and it didn't say it was connected. Had to ask chatgpt several times about it, it eventually gave me some stuff to put in the boot file and now it's working.

I purchased two of these now hoping the first one was a mistake on my part. In both cases the ribbon is too wide for the raspberry pi 5. Amazon lists the pi 5 as a device it works on but when I look at the camera box it only goes up to pi 4.

It work fine

I got this to use for a project not realizing that it is slightly different shape from the official module so it wasn't able to drop in. It is a good camera though and you can use it easily with your Raspberry Pi. So, its a good value if you don't have any hard requirements on the size and layout.