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Take a picture with a Raspberry Pi camera
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camera.py
import picamera
def test_camera():
with picamera.PiCamera() as camera:
camera.capture('image.jpg')
if __name__ == '__main__':
test_camera()
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suminb commented Sep 30, 2014

Taking one picture:

(camera)pi@raspberrypi ~/dev/camera $ time python camera.py

real    0m6.211s
user    0m1.670s
sys     0m0.120s

Taking ten pictures:

(camera)pi@raspberrypi ~/dev/camera $ time python camera.py

real    0m26.468s
user    0m1.740s
sys     0m0.310s

Taking 100 pictures:

(camera)pi@raspberrypi ~/dev/camera $ time python camera.py

real    3m47.392s
user    0m3.430s
sys     0m0.940s

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