CAPTURING AN IMAGE FROM CAMERA USING PYTHON AND OPEN CV

import cv2 camera_port=0#camera number camera = cv2.VideoCapture(camera_port)#simply activates the camera section for i in xrange(30):        #avoides first 30 images     retval, f= camera.read() cv2.imwrite(“test1.jpg”,f) cv2.imshow(‘image’,f) cv2.waitKey(0) cv2.destroyAllWindows() del(camera)