RPi cam module producing bad images

[rollerrolol]

Hello,
I have a Raspberry Pi B and the 5 megapixels camera board. However I'm unable to capture any usable photos or videos, they always get green artifacts or are just really really pixelated. I have tried two raspberry boards and two cameras and had the same problems. I'm using Raspbian Wheezy which is fully updated.

I also have a Logitech C270 camera and it also gives a lot of artifacts when connected to the same pi. I have tried at least five usb power supplies with different cable lengths and they seem to make no difference.
The pi is connected to a 3G router with a 20m cat5 cable but using a 1m cable made no difference. I have been using raspistill and raspivid with the pi cam and fswebcam with the logitech.

Here is a sample image: http://i64.tinypic.com/20iohu.jpg

What could I do to make the cameras work?

[topguy]

Have you tried with Raspian Jessie ? I dont know if newer models of the camera require newer firmware to work properly.

[RaTTuS]

what power supply are you using ?
this could be a brown out situation,

[rollerrolol]

I will try and upgrade to Raspbian Jessie. I just think that the Logitech webcam should work with almost any version.

I have tried two Nokia usb chargers with their own MicroUSB cables, one 5V 2A usb power supply and one 5V 1A usb power supply. If they all are too bad the pi is really picky... Would it help to add a capacitor or something?

[rollerrolol]

Hello,
I have now installed Raspbian Jessie and it didn't help. Any suggestions?

[topguy]

( grasping at straws )
Do you transfer the files from the Raspberry to another PC before viewing them ?
How do you transfer the files from the Raspberry ?

[rollerrolol]

Thanks, that was the problem and now I feel stupid..

I was using wput to transfer all photos and videos to a ftp server and viewing them from there. Now when I look at the images directly on the pi through vnc they are just fine, so the ftp transfer breaks them.

So I must start to transfer them over ssh or something, strange tho, I've been using wput just fine on Openwrt for years.

[6by9]

Using Ascii mode for ftp? That was always the annoyance when I was doing command line ftp mumble mumble years ago back at uni.

[DougieLawson]

Using Ascii mode for ftp? That was always the annoyance when I was doing command line ftp mumble mumble years ago back at uni.

You can set ascii or binary mode for wput.

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−A
−−ascii
Wput automatically determines which transfer−format to use, by looking at the file-extensions. Certain files are recognized as ASCII. These are: txt, c, java, cpp, sh, f, f90, f77, f95, bas", pro, csh, ksh, conf, htm, html, php, pl, cgi, inf, js, asp, bat, cfm, css, dhtml, diz, h, hpp, ini, mak, nfo, shtml, shtm, tcl, pas Specifying this flag forces Wput to use ASCII mode file transfers.

−B
−−binary
Specifiing this flag forces Wput to use BINARY mode file transfers.

[rollerrolol]

Thanks, the -B option did the trick.

[RaTTuS]

ftp is bad IMO - stick with scp these days