Should I use a pointer to an object or an object when the object represents an hardware component?

I have a class called Camera which opens a camera with v4l2_open, etc., in the constructor. The destructor does some cleaning and closes the file descriptor with v4l2_close.

When the camera crashes, what I do is to delete the object and then create a new one:

Camera *camera = new Camera();
(...)
if (crash) {
  delete camera;
  camera = new Camera();
}

Is this one of the correct uses of new/delete in C++?