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.
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
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!
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?
That is great news, thanks! It is great to see that they have a fix for /e/OS and I am not really too fussed about the preview/gallery button anyway (I actually have disabled this on my stock Fairphone 4!).
In the apps description it says it is incompatible to gapps and microg. So I doubt it would work on /e/OS. However, you probably meant to share this, which indeed works:
Also Shamim GCam seems to work, didn’t do a lot of testing. But it allows opening pictures in any gallery-app without an extra-app:
Thanks for this. This works.
Annoyingly it will only open the last photo/video in the preview button, instead of a gallery view.
Right now it’s bright, and I’m not seeing a notable difference in image quality with the main camera, but the wide camera definitely has better processing.
Or rather, I suspect that the cameras in the stock /e/ app has essentially no processing applied right now.
I think the main camera does 2x2 binning, which is why it looks so much better in the normal app as each pixel has a decent combination of colour and luminosity information already.
In the bug tracker it’s been reported that many camera fixes have landed for /e/OS 3.1 release. Apparently they still plan to use the FP camera app, which might just be a decent enough solution.
But currently Video recording ist not working (I think it did work prior update to 3.1.4).
When swithing to the video mode in GCam the screen shows still picture and if video recording button is pressed shortly after an error message appears “video could not be saved” and “log save to ….” and GCam app crashes.
Video recording with built in Camera app (OpenCamera port?) is working.
Any idea, what the reason is? Should be connected to a coming /e/OS-Update (3.2 rc is currently tested)?
Murena is initiating the release of /e/OS version 3.2 to Fairphones 3, 4, 5 and 6 this week. This will include the native Fairphone Camera app for the Fairphone in both the official and the community versions. As of right now, 3.2 is only available in the FP6 community version, so official might take a few more days.
Fairphone Camera app for the Fairphone 
in both the official and the community versions. As of right now, 3.2 is only available in the FP6 community version, so official might take a few more days.