I ended up figuring this out - for anyone that needs it in the future.

If you go to "capture settings" in the indi settings in ekos (where you connect the dmk camera) , you just need to select the correct chip dimensions (ekos should detect it correctly here) and frame rate and it will work just fine.
then, in the camera tab where you take images, you can increase the image size from 640x480 to whatever the read chip size is.

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