Quality with the Apple USB adapter is as good as I achieved with my laptop USB port. Pity they're so expensive.

You can get an idea of how variable power supplies are here:

http://www.righto.com/2012/10/a-dozen-u ... le-is.html

I got heavy colored banding. I have two power supplies. After switching banding disappeared. Funnily they are both rated high enough. The Belkin Duo plug thing gives banding. No fluorencent lighting, or any artificial light for that matter. Changing the power supply has solved the problem for me. T...

I thought it might have been the lighting at work... but it seemed to persist when the light was blocked out. I started searching for other potential sources of interference as there are a lot of electrical things on my desk. Good suggestion on the fps though - I only had a bit of time to play at lu...

I tried out the camera this morning and there is a flashing band across the video that the camera records. I'm pretty sure this wasn't caused by static as I used our workshop (with ant-static wrist bands) when connecting the module. I'll try the camera with another Pi this evening and will link to a...