How can I use camera in raspberry 64 bit

Question

• raspberry pi 4(ram 4g)
• raspberry buster 64 bit
• pi camera

I tried and knew that raspistill or pi camera doesn’t work in 64 bit os. (64 bit os is beta version so It doesn’t support it)

Is there any solution to use camera on 64 bit os? what I want is only capture the image!

It is okay that I can’t use pi camera. I want to know that is there a way to use USB camera or other camera on 64 bit on

Answer 1

You need connect your camera to the camera socket on the rpi. Then enter the terminal and write this:

raspistill -o Desktop/image.jpg

You can change Desktop.

And its saving photo.

If you want control your camera with Python:

from picamera import PiCamera
from time import sleep

camera = PiCamera()

camera.start_preview()
sleep(5)
camera.stop_preview()

Cheers!

Answer 2

I also couldn't get the raspistill product installed. I don't think it will ever be supported as there seems to be a range of libraries for the 64 bit version and probably has been abandoned after "Buster". Tom's hardware goes into it in more details:

https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/use-raspberry-pi-camera-with-bullseye

However, just in case that get's lost or deleted, some interesting commands are:

libcamera-hello

Gives a preview screen

libcamera-jpeg -o test.jpg

Takes a single picture with the file mentioned.

And a 10 second video:

libcamera-vid -t 10000 -o test.h264

Note I did not have to enable, add or install any software. Not even the legacy mode in the command line raspi-config. What it does mean is that if you have legacy software that does use raspistill then it won't work and will need to be rewritten.