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I am looking for adding a wide angle lens to the Raspberry Pi v2 camera. Googling helped me locate a 3D printed lens holder and lens that I can attach to the v2 camera. Now I have the M12 lens and the M12 lens holder. I am not sure how to proceed further. Should I remove the existing lens on the Raspberry Pi camera?

I tried adding the M12 lens and holder to the camera gives me blurry images.

M12 mount: M12 mount for Raspberry Pi V2 Camera

M12 lens set: M12 Lens Set with IR Cut Filter (8/6/3/2.65mm)

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According to the comments section of the lensholder at Thingiverse one has to remove the PiCamera's lens. Note that removing the lens makes the camera susceptible to dust and damage. Be extra careful with the open sensor.

tracyaf_2 Aug 31, 2017

This works excellent. FYI you will have to take out the existing Pi Camera Lens

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vaqueram - in reply to GaugeTheory Feb 14, 2018

Yes, there is, you'll have to remove it. Its not the easiest thing in the world, but its completely doable. I would recommend you print a Pi camera lens spanner, such as this one : https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1574661 You print two of these, one to hold the body, the other to unscrew the lens.

Be careful though, once you remove the lense, the CMOS sensor is completely unprotected and vulnerable to even the smallest speck of dust.

Further reading on "de-caping" the PiCamera:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=148929

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