I had some time last night I really wanted to finalize the camera expansion module.  I have never had such a difficult time programming any board as I did with the ESP32-CAM. 

I was able to talk to it and program it just fine but every time although successful- just resulted in gibberish and errors via serial after. Tonnes of posts online reference this problem and almost ALL blame it on too little power (brownout) or bad USB cable. Odd

After over 2 hours of annoying failure I found a couple posts referencing changing the settings as well as wiping the flash with a python tool. I wasnt able to wipe the flash and I had to change the board type and then alter a few settings to match the info one person recommended. Here are the settings I used:

And it WORKED! I was finally able to capture images to the SD card when the ESP32 boots up them puts itself back in to deep sleep waiting for another boot.  Perfect.  

I have no idea why the pictures are so green but I'll work on that :)  

I think I will supply some of the camera modules as part of kits since they are a royal pain in the %$@& to program. No wonder so many people reported giving up and blaming the hardware in all the posts I read.  They are tricky but...

I ween.