
Inability for Night Vision: If you want to use IR LEDs with the camera together for low light or night vision projects, there’s no other way but to manually unglue/unscrew the lens and remove the IR-blocking filter from the bottom. Short Cable Length: The ribbon of the stock camera is just way too short to let anyone change the orientation of the camera without rotating the board. Narrow field of view: The lens on the stock module only provides a 65-degree FoV, which is far less than what we actually need for home/desk bench/etc. Although the ESP32-CAM can be a good bargain and has big potential for IoT-related projects, it’s not a perfect board, especially on the camera part, the 2MP OV2640 camera that comes with it has quite some limitations.
