Camera woes, open camera does not focus properly in low light, confusing settings, what settings you use

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#1

The settings are “STD”, “NR”, “DRO”, “HDR”, “EXPO”, HDR gives me better quality the rest who knows?
Also what’s the difference between “m”(manual focus) and “FOCUS{}” are they the same.
Not sure “focus macro” does anything other than not focus prperly.
“Focus infinity”?
“Focus continuous picture”?
Neither focus properly in low light or up-close.

So far this app is useful only for manual focus.

The reason I use open camera is that the original camera app sharpens photos too much.

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#2

Well, this is Standard mode as the name suggests, works ok for me.

HDR superposes multiple photos for a better overall brightness. So it’s useful when brightness is bad, but exposure is longer as it takes three photos.

Even up-close?
Focus macro is for up-close objects. If you use it to take pictures of very little things (insects, flowers), it should focus normally when standard mode won’t manage properly.

Other focus settings I don’t really know, I don’t use them.

(If you already knew all this but you are saying it doesn’t work as expected, sorry, misunderstood your post.)

#3

When it comes to focusing on objects that are close-by apparently no camera app that uses the Camera2 API works properly. What works for me is to switch to the original camera API in OC.

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#4

I happen to use 3 focus modes using Open Camera on a FP1:

  • auto : by default (for landscapes for instance)
  • macro : to focus on small close up things with enough light
  • infinit : to get a better focus on small close up things when there is not enough light…

You get bad focus for landscapes in macro mode.

I use an external magnifier, hold stuck on the device, to make better macro close ups.

#5

Yep I get same result in normal and macro mode, 95% of the time focusing does not work, it focuses perfectly for split of a second then defocuses. The best way I found is just to zoom in a bit in normal mode being as close to the object as possible. Manual zoom helps a lot, reason why I got it in the first place.

I understand that the Fairphone camera is limited, and in no way competitive with current flagships no matter what app. Not even with Pixel 3a which is w a y cheaper and would be anyone choice with a sound mind, especially in the age of broadcasting. Treehuggers like us will always be social pariahs, “childish idealists”.

#6

I don’t think it’s an issue with OpenCamera though, it works very well for me.

I think DRO highers the contrast. It gives nice landscape photos.

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