The Raspberry Pi has tons of cool accessories, both official and from third parties. From HATs and servos to switches and more, there’s tons of cool stuff to build your projects with. But what do you do when the official component isn’t powerful enough? Rig your own, of course! Today we’re sharing an awesome camera mod from a maker known as DoomMonkey266 who’s connected a high-powered Canon lens to his Pi to take some stellar photography.
DoomMonkey266 has dubbed this project the ZoomPi. It’s capable of zooming incredible distances that the official Camera Module could never achieve. The lens is a Tamron 80-210mm Canon EF that was initially used with DoomMonkey’s old 35mm film camera. After seeing it sit around unused for so long, attaching it to the Pi just seemed appropriate.
