I am making a self-contained stills camera and the ESP32-based modules seem well-suited to my project due to the easy incorporation of a TFT viewfinder screen and TF card slot in one package. I am not interested in saving video or web streaming. I have worked with the TTGO ESP32 camera that uses the OV2640 2MP sensor and can save full 2MP UXGA (1600x1200) resolution stills (albeit with mandatory JPEG compression turned on - I have only managed to get 1.3 MP images without compression).
I see now there is a version of ESP32 camera that uses the OV3660 3MP sensor (called 'M5Stack Timer Camera'). However, the specs for that camera https://docs.m5stack.com/#/en/unit/timercam say it can save upto a maximum of UXGA - i.e. 2MP images.
So what is the advantage of having a 3MP sensor chip if you can only save 2 MP images? Or is there a way of saving the full 3MP sensor resolution (i.e. 2048 x 1536) stills from this camera?
Thanks