Digital Camera Oscillator

[oznerol]

I am looking at purchasing this camera - from a different vendor. Anyway, this site says that it is programmable between 0.3 and 25 fps.

I have yet to find anywhere else show this fps limitation. I am wondering if this is a result of the oscillator? It is a 27Mhz oscillator, and the resolution is 640x480. The image sensor used in the camera is capable of up to 60fps at 320x240, so I don't see why the camera itself cannot other than the oscillator.

Is this the case? If not, what is the oscillator's main function? And how can I up the cameras framerate?

If it is the oscillator, would I be able to use an external clock (it is a jumper setting on the board itself), that is faster to up it to 60fps?

 

[CTho9305]

The support circuitry or interface to the storage might not be fast enough for 60 fps, even if the image sensor itself can produce & dump the data. There's a lot less data per frame at 320x240 than at 640x480. You can try a faster oscillator, but I'd imagine a lot of other parts might not like that.