Possible to take pictures to RAM (without store it on SD)?

[abramq]

The picture would be processed after taking, so processing it into RAM would be faster. Is it possible to take the picture directly to RAM and modify it in RAM and then store modified picture to SD card?

[RaTTuS]

yes - see the source for raspistill / raspivid and or mmal interfaces

[pootle]

There are several ways to do this, but the simplest is to setup a small ram disk, and take the picture to this and then process it in whatever way you like.

Alternatively you can stream the image as rgb straight into an array (I use numpy, but it depends on what you want process it with) and then process it any way you want. rgb is good for this as it avoids introducing any compression artifacts before you start processing it.

[6by9]

rgb is good for this as it avoids introducing any compression artifacts before you start processing it.

YUV is more efficient as that is the native format produced by the ISP, but it messes with people's heads that images can be represented in anything other than RGB

[HypnoToad]

/dev/shm/ is a ramdisk

[Gavinmc42]

Or use a ram based OS like PiCore.
It boots from SD and runs in ram and only writes to SD card if you tell it to.

You can get the same effect in Raspbian if you know what you are doing

YUV is more efficient as that is the native format produced by the ISP

So streaming YUV would be more efficient too?
Reduced latency because no color space changes? google time