This is a nice small camera board with the added feature of global shutter. This means that you won't get that annoying "jello" effect where things that are moving get distorted or bent/torn in the image. This isn't all that important for your average webcam/video chat use but if you are using the camera to monitor machinery or do computer vision, the global shutter makes a difference. Particularly if the camera is going to be on something that moves like a car or robot, the global shutter will give the computer a nice undistorted image to work with. This is also a good monitoring camera for something that moves a lot like a 3d printer, global shutter will make each frame clean even if the printer is moving fast. Note that "jello" is different from motion blur, this camera will get rid of the jello but to reduce motion blur you still have to have plenty of light so the camera can shoot at it's highest shutter speed.
This camera has good color balance out of the box and will give a good picture in low light, it works much better if the scene is well lit so the camera can get up to it's full frame rate. It comes with a fairly short USB-A cable. The camera board itself doesn't actually have a USB connector, it has a 4 pin socket instead, so if you want a longer cable you will either have to make a custom one with the right connector or use a USB extension cord. Since this connector comes straight out of the back of the camera board, you will need to allow about an inch behind the camera for the cable to come out and turn the corner.
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