That's about double the sensor area of the Camera Module V2. As the Raspberry Pi foundation puts it in the blog post, "There are limitations to mobile phone-type fixed-focus modules.

My impression of this camera module is that it’s much more of a step forward from the V2 module than the V2 was from their first model. The extra resolution is nice, but the autofocus makes it ...

The regular and infrared versions of Camera Module v2 will still be available. The High Quality Camera does not supersede it. Instead, it provides a different tradeoff between price, ...

As a replacement for it, the Camera Module V2 was launched in April 2016, which is a camera module that uses Sony's IMX219, an 8-megapixel image sensor.

Raspberry Pi projects are no longer limited to an 8-megapixel, fixed-focus camera. The new High Quality Camera module gets a new sensor and interchangeable lenses.

Dubbed the “High Quality Camera,” it’s a big step up from the Camera Module V2 from 2016. While it’s much less compact, the back-side illumination and much larger pixels will make it much ...

The HQ Camera is an alternative to the $25 Raspberry Pi Camera Module v2, which has a fixed-focus lens that takes shots at an 8MP resolution. ...

For example, it can execute state-of-the-art mobile vision models such as MobileNet v2 at almost 400 FPS using low-power. “Maple Syrup Pi Camera is part of my research project,” Ricardo tells us.

It's been possible to make Pi-based cameras before, but the Pi Camera Module V2 is an 8MP affair with a fixed focus lens and the High-Quality Camera Module always seemed a bit too involved.