BillC

Hello, I am trying to prototype a product idea, and I need help choosing an appropriate board camera or camera component. Since this is a prototype, I don't need a packaged product (although I will need to set up control and view the images). I'm brand new at this, and I'm a bit overwhelmed with all the websites out there. But I haven't found what I need, I don't think. Can you point me to some products that might work for me? Here are my specs... Small--spy camera sized. Inexpensive. Digital, wired output of image data. Color preferred. 50 degree AOV in the vertical (short) dimension. Fixed focus on infinity. VGA (around 640 x 480). Shutter speed under my control, in the 1/500 sec vicinity. Frame rate under my control, in the 1-10 fps range. Suitable images under a variety of daytime (outdoor) light levels. I'm assuming that I don't want to use a CCTV camera component, so maybe I'm not in the right place! But this sub-forum looked promising, so I'm giving it a try. If I'm not in the right sub-forum, any advice on which one to try would be welcomed. Thanks, Bill

Thank you for your comments. They make me realize that maybe there is a simpler approach. Since I can deal with the frame rate issue in post processing, I can just get a camera with at least 10 fps. So that leaves just one variable I'd like to control, shutter speed. Since this is just for a proof of concept, and I have no experience with SCCB, I think it would make more sense for me to just find a miniature camera with the approx specs that I want. Will I be able to find anything like that? In my web searches, it appears the vendors do not list such specs on their sites. I guess I'll need to start calling some. Any advice on who to try would be much appreciated. Thanks.