tldr/pages/linux/rpicam-still.md

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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 {{bmp|png|rgb|yuv420}} -o {{path/to/file.{{bmp|png|rgb|yuv420}}}}

  • Capture a raw image:

rpicam-still -r -o {{path/to/file.jpg}}

  • Capture a 100 second exposure image:

rpicam-still -o {{path/to/file.jpg}} --shutter 100000