9. API - The PiCamera Class

The picamera library contains numerous classes, but the primary one that all users are likely to interact with is PiCamera, documented below. With the exception of the contents of the picamera.array module, all classes in picamera are accessible from the package’s top level namespace. In other words, the following import is sufficient to import everything in the library (excepting the contents of picamera.array):

import picamera

9.1. PiCamera

9.2. PiVideoFrameType

9.3. PiVideoFrame

9.4. PiResolution

9.5. PiFramerateRange

9.6. PiSensorMode