Hands-On Robotics Programming with C++

Capturing images and video with the RPi camera

Let's see how we can take pictures and record video with our RPi. Open the Terminal window and type the following command:

raspistill -o image1.jpg

In this command, we used raspistill to take a still picture and saved it as image1.jpg.

Since the Terminal window is pointing to the pi directory, this image is saved in the pi folder. To open this image, open the pi folder and inside it, you will see image1.jpg. Images captured using the RPi camera have a native resolution of 3,280 x 2,464 pixels:

The output of image1 is shown in the following screenshot:

If we want to flip the image horizontally, ...