A Guide to Recording 660FPS Video On A $6 Raspberry Pi Camera

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2019-08-01 - By Robert Elder     This article will discuss the setup steps that are required for recording videos at high frame rates on cheap Raspberry Pi cameras.  Frame rates up to 660FPS on the V1 camera and up to 1007 on the V2 camera can be achieved.  Filming at these extremely high frame rates on a Raspberry Pi is much more challenging and involves more work than typical point and shoot photography.  This article was primarily written to supplement the instructions in the following video:     The instructions presented here were tested to work on a fresh Raspbian OS image with the following md5 hash:md5sum ~/Downloads/2019-07-10-raspbian-buster-lite.img 921052ef30538b995933078e8779c585 ~/Downloads/2019-07-10-raspbian-buster-lite.img      Furthermore, the version of Raspberry Pi that was tested was a Raspberry Pi 3 model B.  During the initial setup process, a Raspberry Pi V2 camera was plugged into the Raspberry Pi.  After the install was completed, the camera was switched to …