External camera?

[MarkJako]

Hi guys,

One issue from a camera enthusiast but with little technical knowledge.

I would like to have a small camera (if possible as good as cameras on modern mobile phones are, with good quality, autofocus, stabilisation, etc.) that I could plug in a PC or mobile phone and use as e.g. endoscope or web camera.

Is it possible to make something like that form a mobile phone camera? Could one strip a camera from a mobile phone and connect it somehow to a USB cable and plug it in a PC or another mobile phone. Will it work? Are cameras in modern mobile phone able to work for themselves or they need a powerful software to work properly?

Are there producers that makes or can make such cameras? Or maybe some freelancers that can help me with that?
Mark

 

[Jeff15]

Hello and welcome, not sure exactly what you want to do but good luck........

 

[480sparky]

I doubt you can just pull the sensor out of a cell phone and wire it up to a USB cord. You need some sort of processor to deal with the data coming off the sensor.

It's going to be a lot less work to just buy an endoscope. Not sure if it could do double-duty as a webcam.

 

[Designer]

Are there producers that makes or can make such cameras?

Got $23?

https://www.amazon.com/Seesi-Endosc...t=&hvlocphy=9017770&hvtargid=pla-781022053882

Apparently your smart phone acts as the data processor/image producer.

 

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