I’m having two issues with my FP3+ (LOS18) and the new camera module. When in a video call (and seemingly in bright light) the front camera’s quality is severely reduced
In camera apps, the viewfinder shows an oversharp and moire-y view, especially on patterned objects. The resulting photo is fine, but it can be distracting and not realistic when looking at the preview before taking.
I have the exact same problem with my fairphone 3+. In the normal Kamera-App the pictures is fine, but when using whatsapp camera it makes me look 10 years older with every pore oversharpend.
I’m glad it’s not just me! I’ve found the quality is marginally better (at least with no oversharpened pores) when I’m in shadow/dark room. The moment I’m in some sort of light it makes my nose look like a blackhead festival.
Have you tried any other apps, like Signal/Telegram? I wondered if Whatsapp was incorrectly dealing with the FP3+ 64mp camera.
I also get some minor moire/oversharpness in the camera app (not in resulting photos though), similar to what you see when you watch a 4k video in a much smaller window.
some part in the Camera driver for the fairphone 3 produces “oversharpend Camera feed”. I was wandering if its a setting not visible to the standart user.
I don’t use the default camera now but it was never noticably poor. I suppose you’d have to take a picture, upload it and detail every setting for another user to copy - a lot of work ,?
I installed signal on another phone today to see the quality first hand, and it was pretty shocking compared to the other Pixel 5a. Very low quality, looking like it lacked any aliasing. I’ll see if I can get screenshots again, but has anyone else experienced issues with Signal video calls too?
This was on the same wifi connection. The only benefit to Signal is that my PiP quality actually looks decent, vs Whatsapp which doesn’t
These are in-app video calls, so I guess the apps themselves? Taking photos using the camera app (or g-cam) results in photos and videos that are fine, it’s just live video calls that are resulting in tremendously low quality