Raspberry Pi Camera

camera.py

# Take still pictures with Python

from picamera import PiCamera
from time import sleep

camera = PiCamera()
camera.rotation = 180 # You can rotate the image by 90, 180 or 270 degrees
camera.start_preview() # Make the camera preview

for i in range(5):
  sleep(5) # The camera should take one picture every five seconds.
  camera.capture('/home/pi/Desktop/image%s.jpg' % i)
camera.stop_preview()


# Recording video with Python

camera.start_preview()
camera.start_recording('/home/pi/Desktop/video.h264')
sleep(5)
camera.stop_recording()
camera.stop_preview()