Achieving real time grayscale image data - Raspberry Pi Forums

hi friends

have started work raspberry pi , pi camera module. can operate camera module using python based raspicam , picamera apis.

motive find way record 8 bit grayscale intensity levels of image in buffer. need data in real-time further processing. tried using above 2 apis, couldnt find way this.

can please suggest suitable way achieve this. many thanks.

regards
alok

checkout out c demo code raspistillyuv. outputs yuv image file, , y of yuv greyscale.

want video? make same changes produce video frames of yuv, performance slower due larger amount sof data being transferred gpu arm.

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