There are many different kinds of cameras for the RasPi - some have IR illumination and/or filters removed, others don't. Some allow interchangeable lens, other

There are many different kinds of cameras for the RasPi - some have IR illumination and/or filters removed, others don't. Some allow interchangeable lens, others are "fixed". Quality can vary depending on the camera. I have a RasPi Zero W camera at my home (monitoring my front door and patio) that runs MotionEyeOS: https://github.com/ccrisan/motioneyeos https://github.com/ccrisan/motioneyeos The camera is a tiny thing but 5 MP and color; quality has been very good in my opinion. Better than anything I could have bought at that price point (and certainly less intrusive - so many IP cameras require "cloud services" or something like that to work). Total cost for everything I used was well under $50.00 USD. A cheaper option, which I am considering playing around with - but not as easy to set up - is this nice little module based around the ESP32: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32964004777.html https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32964004777.html There are a few IP camera projects and github repos out there, but nothing anywhere near as polished as MotionEyeOS, yet.