DOT-Files/Gentoo/gentooamd/home/user/.tldrc/tldr/pages/linux/rpicam-still.md

rpicam-still

Capture and store a photo using a Raspberry Pi camera with legacy features missing from rpicam-jpeg. More information: https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/computers/camera_software.html#rpicam-still.

• Capture a photo with different encoding:

rpicam-still {{[-e|--encoding]}} {{bmp|png|rgb|yuv420}} {{[-o|--output]}} {{path/to/file.{{bmp|png|rgb|yuv420}}}}

• Capture a raw image:

rpicam-still {{[-r|--raw]}} {{[-o|--output]}} {{path/to/file.jpg}}

• Capture a 100 second exposure image:

rpicam-still {{[-o|--output]}} {{path/to/file.jpg}} --shutter 100000