import sensor, time # Reset sensor sensor.reset() # Set sensor settings sensor.set_brightness(0) sensor.set_saturation(0) sensor.set_gainceiling(16) sensor.set_contrast(1) # Set sensor to QQVGA/RGB565 sensor.set_framesize(sensor.QQVGA) sensor.set_pixformat(sensor.RGB565) # Skip a few frames to allow the sensor settle down # Note: This takes more time when exec from the IDE. for i in range(0, 10): sensor.snapshot() clock = time.clock() # Take snapshot img = sensor.snapshot() # Compress Image clock.tick() img = img.compress(30) print(clock.avg()) with open("/test.jpeg", "w") as f: f.write(img)