Flash for the 64MP Camera

Maufeat · January 6, 2023, 4:58pm

Hey all,

I have bought the 64MP Pi Camera Module and need a Flash.

Does anyone have Any Suggestion or experience with it?

Thanks in Advance!

Dion · January 9, 2023, 1:31am

Hi,
What do mean about “Flash”?

danc81 · January 9, 2025, 9:41am

Did you find a solution for this?

hikinghack · February 25, 2025, 12:34pm

Ok so a regular “flash” isn’t going to work. You have a rolling shutter and a fast flash will mess things up.

If you are serious about wanting to take a photo with triggered lights, you can see my code

github.com

Digital-Naturalism-Laboratories/Mothbox/blob/main/Software/TakePhoto.py

#!/usr/bin/python

"""
Takephoto - Andy Quitmeyer - Public Domain

This script goes through the proper setup for using 64MP cameras on a pi4 or pi5

Its order of operations is like this
-Determine if pi4 or pi5 to set max resolution
-Read in camera settings
-Configure camera settings like HDR mode
-Calibrate camera's exposure and focus (if mandated)
-prepare the camera for capturing pixels
-Turning camera flash on
-Capturing the pixels
-Turning the camera flash off as quickly as possible after
-Saving the pixels to disk


TODO:

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where I control some LED panels with a relay

and the code is set up to have the lights on the shortest time possible to capture the photo.