Capture a picture with V4L2 Brief As we has seen before, cameras in Linux could be a complex [1] story and you have to watch every step you take to get it right. libcamera [2] does a great job to simplify this in a platform independent way and should be used whenever it's possible.
But not all cameras does have a complex flow-chart. Some cameras (e.g. web cameras) are "self-contained" where the image data goes straight from the camera to the user application, without any detours through different IP blocks for image processing on its way.
