Fairphone 6 e/OS/ - which camera app?

[geprobert]

Hi there, I am a Fairphone 4 owner since it came out, coming up to 4 years. I had planned to keep until 2026 but I like the idea of moving to /e/OS (seeing the recent news about what Google is doing with Gemini) and although I could put this onto my FP4 myself I have read that the “official” version pre-installed on phones seems to be slightly different to installing manually. I would hope to recycle my FP4 (I think Fairphone gave a quote of 105 Euros), or I might pass it on to a family member.

Anyway, regarding the FP6, one thing I am not clear about is what camera app comes with the “official” /e/OS version, does anyone know? I am talking about the version I would buy from the Fairphone official shop (The Fairphone (Gen. 6) now with privacy-first /e/OS). When I compare this shop page to the standard FP6 I do see a difference in the screenshots of the photo app, but the commentary is the same for both - “Every Shot, On Point… Capture rich detail with the pro-level wide lens, or switch to the ultra-wide for the bigger picture…” etc.

I would like to understand if there would be a different camera app / experience using the “official” /e/OS version compared to the standard Android version? I have seen some discussions about camera differences when people have installed the “community” version of /e/OS themselves on a FP6 (example: Fairphone 6 - camera zoom does not function) but nothing yet on the “official” version, unless I missed it.

Thanks!

[Furdiburd]

The app used on the official marketing pictures seems to be OpenCamera. That is what comes by default with /e/os. I don’t personally have a fp6 with e/os so someone will need to comfirm if the official app works on it too

[yvmuell]

No the FP camera is not (yet?) available through e/OS and yes e/OS comes with a fork of OpenCamera

A quick check-in from the team: Fairphone (Gen. 6) early-life update

Welcome to the Community forum. Also following and getting involved in the /e/OS community is very recommendable (I am an /e/OS user myself, although still on an FP3). /e/OS usually comes with a fork of OpenCamera as its default camera app. Only last year, /e/OS was for the first time ever able – with Fairphone’s help – to also offer Fairphone’s native camera app on the FP4 and then the FP5. Fairphone is known to pass on firmware patches and the like to /e/ development for Fairphones, so i…

[geprobert]

Thank you to @Furdiburd and @yvmuell for the responses, I had missed that other thread - I guess I would need to buy the FP6 with the understanding that it might get the official Fairphone camera app but no 100% guarantees - thank you!

[Dezorian]

Only the zoom is not working… Fairphone Gen 6 (FP6) camera zoom broken - Fairphone - /e/OS community

[geprobert]

Thanks! Do you think that is the only difference? I got the impression that there is more to the official Fairphone camera app than just the ability to zoom.

A bit like how they improved the FP4 camera massively with just an app update last year, I thought that the official Fairphone camera app on the FP6 would produce better pictures or somehow be a better experience than a generic Opencamera app?