Camera quality Fairphone 4

[Razem]

@loseyourself

The app “CameraX info” claims the Fairphone 4 doesn’t use Camera2 API. At all. Or maybe it only checks CameraX support. I dunno.

That’s probably the case. Try Camera2 API Probe and see for yourself. If it didn’t support Camera2 API, then GCam wouldn’t open at all.

@loseyourself

Otherwise the resolution of pictures taken in Gcam would be the exact same as if they are taken in the Fairphone camera app.

I don’t know which ports you have tried. I use BSG and when I go to Camera settings → Photo → Camera photo resolution and select the Max resolution option, I get the full 12 MP quality.

If you mean the 48 MP quality, then you should know that even in the stock camera app it’s a bit of a hack (it probably requires some special capture mode). And it will probably never be accessible through the API.

Camera & Camera2 API - missing features & bugs

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